| Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Enjoy life in all its fulness” In recent days there is a theme that I keep encountering in my personal reading, and in my study for sermons and Bible studies, and even in conversations with people. It was a topic in the discussion time during the Bible study I taught last Wednesday, and it worked its way into my sermon yesterday. It was also discussed in the opening pages of an old book I picked up the other day and was leafing through. That issue is the fact that so many people go through life mildly dissatisfied, knowing that they are missing something but not sure what that something is. It’s like the great American writer Henry David Thoreau famously wrote in his book “Walden”: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Likewise, the passage from the old book I was leafing through which I referred to a moment ago reads like this: “I feel a restiveness in man … a dissatisfaction of a universal sort – the average human being, as I judge it, is uneasy. He is like a man who is hungry, gets up at night, opens the refrigerator door and doesn’t exactly see what he wants because he doesn’t know what he wants. He closes the door and goes back to bed.” The passage goes on: “Not knowing what we really want, we go through life with a strange inner hunger unsatisfied. It’s something like having a holiday without knowing exactly what you want to do, where you want to go, or how you want to spend your limited time. When you finally decide what you want to do, and where to go, it’s too late.” It’s true. You know from personal experience that you crave something more and deeper than just simple pleasure. All the human appetites for food, sex, wealth, possessions, accomplishments, accolades, and sensory satisfaction can be met and still, you sense that something is missing. That is the basic human condition and it is why in Matthew 16:26 Jesus posed the rhetorical question, “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?” In John 10:10 Jesus spoke directly to that dilemma when He told us clearly that life in all its fulness is found only through him. That’s why, in terms of our pursuit of selfcare, there is nothing that will help us more or bring us more true and lasting satisfaction than to deepen our relationship with Jesus. That is what your soul is really longing for. I encourage you to spend extra time with Him today and enjoy life in all its fulness. God bless, Pastor Jim (If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00 – in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville |
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