Where do _you_ find fulfillment?

Not your standard Lord's day, between a missed Sunday school and a long Rachmaninoff concert. That said, the message I _did_ hear was an excellent one, drawn from James 4:1-10, on the ultimate causes and resolution of conflict between both Christians and non-Christians.

Today's message was from James 4:1-10, concerning the ultimate causes of conflict in the world around us, and even between fellow believers. It was particularly relevant because verse 2 is almost a verbatim description of the Virginia Tech tragedy, from the killer's own mouth. "You lust and have not, therefore you murder."; Cho blamed all he did on the failure of other people in his life to fulfill his own expectations.

Every person on this planet is driven by a desire to seek their own pleasure. It isn't wrong; that's how God designed us. The trouble comes in our selection of what we find our pleasure in and ultimately, to what or whom we look for our ultimate fulfillment. Everyone finds it in different things or people, but all will ultimately disappoint, save one. If you're looking to a job, a relationship, a philosophy of life, or even Christianity to fulfill you, you're going to be sorely disappointed, both in this life and more so in the next. Jesus Christ is the only one who can fill that void, answering that deep-seated desire for fulfillment. Anything or anyone else simply can't fit the bill.

It seems like such an obvious truth, but at the same time it's completely unnatural to the human heart. God's beaten it into me, not completely but certainly much more than I'd have realized previously. I've already graduated from the school of hard knocks, but I have to keep going back for night classes. Thankfully, the professor is Someone I trust implicitly.