Life giving elixir

If I gave you a life-giving elixir which satisfied all of your needs with a sip - would you not take it?

And if you did take it, wouldn't you then be a complete fool to go running around trying to find solutions to your problems which were ALREADY solved by this elixir. Everyone would label you a lunatic!! Why are you seeking out fulfillment of needs when the solution is sitting in your pantry? Why do you run to these shinier new promising, but ultimately failing drinks?

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But isn't that EXACTLY what we do? Jesus Christ purchased with his death and resurrection our ultimate problem of being separated from God and gave us an open door to have a relationship with God. Before Christ, we were doomed to death, in this life and the next. Before Christ we were doomed to spend our lives running after vanity, after things that would promise life but ultimately fail. We were doomed to pointless pain, suffering, and the like.

But Jesus....He promised us life and fulfillment in Him. He promised us that He was the bread of life. He promised that the water he would provide to us would become in us a spring of water welling up to eternal life. He promised rest, an easy yoke, and a light burden. He spoke of life to the fullest and finding life in Him.

So....why is it that I constantly pursue life from alternative sources? For those who love examples, a few would include career, romantic, and adventurous pursuits. These things may not be bad but the hope we have must be secure in Christ.

Why is our witness unbelievable sometimes? Because we fail to find our source in Christ.

If He is merely an addition to the splendid things we have to believe, attain, or possess....He is simply "another thing". If however, like the parable of the man selling everything to purchase the splendid pearl - Jesus is everything to us and we are satisfied in Him - others take notice.

Jesus Christ TRULY satisfies all of our real needs. Let us stop living as if He doesn't.