Too Easily Pleased

I was reading the devotional book of camp. The day five devotion was about the holiness of God, but that is not what I am going to write in this post. It is about the last sentence of the middle passage of that page, ‘We are too easily pleased’. Though I know that this sentence itself sums up by it’s own, but just want to share some insight of me as I read this. In this life we seek for worldly things like money, materials, fame, lust that we think can satisfy us, and many more. I came to an understanding that not only we will desire and go through all this temptations in life, but, we HAVE to in order to realise or appreciate the greater value that is to come that is God. But it is just our human nature that we are so easily pleased by all this things that this world can offer us. I like the statement where it says, ‘if this can satisfy you, why do you ask for more?’. It is trying to say, that if you ever do ask for more of this thing that you say can satisfy you, means that at the first place it did not satisfy because if it did, you won’t be asking for more. My point here is that, we are so easily pleased!! I give you diamond, you want silver. That is how we are acting like. The devotional book gives a descripetion of an ignorant child who wants to go on making pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. So pathetic isn’t it when you see it from this point of view? Yes it is indeed pathetic. So now, take a moment and think of what you have been seeking for satisfaction all this while, and put it in the situation of the ignorant child and Jesus is offering you a life of joy in Him. A life of love that is greater than any love that you can ever imagine to feel, to ever understand in this life. God meets up to all your expectations of Him, in fact He goes beyond your expectations. I never once, since I felt His love, to ever regret my decision giving up my life and taking up the cross to follow Jesus. If you have been seeking for this Joy, this Love and never finding that thing that can fill that void in your heart, it’s time to seek it from THE source. Seek, ask and knock from Him. Tell Him that you are just so sick and tired of searching and hoping for nothing. Tell Him how desperate you are to just know Him, and that you are going nowhere till He reveals Himself to you. I promise you that that will be the wisest decision you will ever make in your life.

Saturday, June 28, 2008