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Just as I found joy in my relationship with Josh as a person (not what he could do for me), if you are dissatisfied with God, my friend, your relationship with Him is most likely impersonal. He is the Creator of Life, of you, of everything you have and do and breathe and live. The point of Christianity is a thriving relationship with the Living God. Is it your knowledge about God, or is it God Himself? Our spiritual actions, good deeds, and holy character are not the point of our faith, but a by-product of it. If this is the case, I challenge you to look at what you’re worshiping. You can be the best of Christians and still be dissatisfied in your relationship with God. Or we might seek Him for what He can do for us: “As a Christian God will give me good things: a future, a husband, a great job, the American dream.”.We may seek Him for how He makes us look: “Being a Christian makes me a good person of integrity, and my employers, friends and colleagues respect me because of it.”.We may seek Him for the status of relationship: “Of course I’m a Christian! I was raised a Christian, I serve in my church, I study the Word – I’m saved!”.The essential factor was Josh himself.Įven long-term Christians can have a “relationship” with God founded on the wrong motives. But there was an essential factor that ultimately brought us the marriage we have today: I wasn’t looking to Josh for a relationship status, for arm candy, or for help with my math homework. Our relationship developed from acquaintance to friendship, from friendship to confidence, from confidence to commitment, and from commitment to intimacy. But as I spent time with him and came to understand his character and heart, my desire for his presence grew. I had no initial “desire” for Josh emotionally or physically. My faithful readers will recall that when my husband and I first met, we were not attracted to one another. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” (John 10:9-10, Amplified, emphases mine) The Necessity of God Himself The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. He will come in and he will go out, and will find pasture. “ I am the Door anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). But dissatisfaction is not God’s intention for His children, who have access to abundant and eternal life: It settles in all of our hearts regardless of our stage of life. (Read the post Contentment is Not a State of Being for more thoughts on this.)ĭissatisfaction is no respecter of persons. Just like contentment, satisfaction is not limited to any life stage. Having made the transition from singleness to dating to marriage and motherhood, I understand the battle for satisfaction. Every married person was single at one time, working through the same desires, struggles, and difficulties single women are still facing today. I always say, “I’ve been there” – because I have. How do we satisfy ourselves in God when – frankly – we’re still not satisfied? In the midst of the battle to choose Christ over our human nature, the pat answer to “satisfy yourself in God” isn’t always welcome.