But Christ is all, and in all - Col 3: 11b

How often do we strive with every fiber of our being to not walk in our parents shoes?

‘Sons (& daughters) have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.' Aldous Huxley

In our desire to forge our own way in life, sometimes we carve a path away from all that is right and true that our parents held dear. In Luke 15 the bible tells a story of two such siblings, one who left to find his way… the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living… “Now his older son was in the field,
The younger son walked away to find something…

Angie… "I’ve know so many Christians that I just couldn’t relate to at all… I want a complete opposite way. I grew up in it and then when I was 13 I made a decision to just walk away"…

In his search for fulfillment he found a great lacking, there was no one and nothing for him. Angie travelled a similar road…. “Moving to the Gold Coast and not having family around and just being in the drinking scene and going through some hard times”… "once I got into competitions and stuff; you sort of put everything into it… but it is not everything."

Sometimes at the end of the long road, once we have hacked a path through life, as far as we can, we find ourselves staring at an empty field. What we believed would fill us up and be the everything we sought, turns out to be nothing.

Angie; “I emailed Christian Surfers to just meet some surfers….. I was so hoping I could relate to somebody…. and saying finally Christians that I can relate to.”

In our story in the bible, the younger son returned home to his father. The son who left to find himself, found a renewed relationship with his father. The son who stayed lost everything: his father… said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound. But he was angry and refused to go in. The son who was lost found love, the love of his father. The son who stayed chose duty over love and found resentment and anger. Your heavenly father loves you, he seeks to have relationship with you; a relationship based on love not duty. You don’t need to go off seeking other things. Trying to make them be ALL in your life.

Angie: "You can sort of put everything into it and it’s too much… surfing’s great but its not everything. It’s not your everything."

Jesus is enough to fill the void in your life, only he will fill it to overflowing, fill it completely, fill it precisely in a way that you could never expect or anticipate.

• For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell - Col 1:19 19
• That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge - Col 2: 2
• For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost - Lk 19:10

Written by Andrew Carruthers - Narrow Path Media 

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