You Weren’t Made for Shallow Things
hello there. the holiday season is upon us!
A time when it feels like we're supposed to be the most happy and thankful. A time when it can feel like everyone around us is more happy than we are, especially when we scroll through our instagram's or facebook's. A time when we can think a lot about what we don't yet have or once had, but have lost. It is a time when we are supposed to be overflowing with hope, faith, joy, and expectancy.
It's interesting that it is in this time, that those things can be sucked out of our life the most...
I've found myself looking back and thinking about times when I felt like I was happier than I am now. Ah, but God has been gently reminding me. Reminding me, that I crave those feelings of happiness that I've found in this world, but He has a deeper well for me, for us. I try to find happiness in things I can easily grasp, easily reach - cheapened happiness. He has kindly and graciously stripped me of the things that I was striving to find a shallow happiness in. So that I may find and walk the deeper path of REAL JOY. LASTING, KINGDOM JOY.
Thank you Jesus for knowing exactly what I need. For walking beside me. Praise Him for He doesn't want us to live a life of shallow happiness, shallow love, shallow purpose.
You weren't made to be shallow, you weren't made to run to streams that run dry.
This season can be a beautiful time to radiate happiness, but it can also be a time where we feel deep despair, loneliness, comparison, and lies of our life not being enough. Know that probably way more people than you think feel the exact same way you do.
"Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to You. For the Lord is a God of Justice. Blessed are all those who wait for Him." (Isaiah 30:18 ESV).
He is slow and gracious. Wait for the Joy He brings, not the happiness that fades and runs dry. Keep carrying on friend, know that there's more joy, peace, beauty, love, wholeness, just beyond our "limited sight." The holiday season can be a reminder that God has come to lead us into everything we long for and desire, even when it doesn't feel like it.
much love for you,
Kims
