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Chasing After the Wind
02.28.2008 by Chad McIntosh
The more we seek happiness, the more our search ends in depression. The more we pursue freedom, the more enslaved we become by our pursuit. The more we hunger for power, the more we starve by serving its limitlessness. The more pleasure we chase the more pain it engenders.
The common woes of life all result from a misguided pursuit for their respective virtues. This is because the virtues of life are necessarily byproducts of fulfillment of a deeper kind. Seeking the virtues for themselves is to put the cart before the horse. Their richest enjoyment is always incidental.
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else…. and all these things will be added to you.
Matt 6.33“Teacher, of all the commandments, which is the most important?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and most important commandment.’
Matt 22.36-38
Paradoxically, our greatest earthly desires are only satisfiable when we no longer desire them.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Well said Chad. Grasping this truth is a sign of Christian growth and maturation. The rest of life is spent trying to live it.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Happiness is always a by-product.