That Longing For More

Do you sometimes feel like you just don’t fit in this world? You feel restless and the fire within you is burning but you’re not totally sure what to do with it. You aren’t content and you hunger for more. You desire to love others without holding back but something always holds you back. You hunger to serve and you get easily frustrated and bogged down by the world. You, you can’t totally put it into words but there’s just something in you that hungers for more. When I start to feel this way sometimes, I remember C.S. Lewis’ famous quote:

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world”

When I read that quote it just hits me and reminds me, God made those desires for a reason. They aren’t just there. Obviously until I go to Heaven, I will ALWAYS feel restless. I will ALWAYS feel like I just don’t fit. I will ALWAYS feel a lack of content with the things around me in this world because I was not made for this world.I shouldn’t get upset over unsettling things because they are supposed to be there. Our desires shouldn’t be satisfied by this world. Our desires , the ones that just seem to never go away and leave us feeling restless; will only be fulfilled when we reach Heaven and meet our Heavenly Father.

Think about it, one day- we won’t be restless anymore. We won’t be struggling to put God before other things in our lives, we won’t be hurting, we won’t be in pain, we won’t be mistreated, we won’t be disrespected, we won’t be bullied, we won’t go through any more trials, we won’t shed any more tears of sorrow, we won’t gossip, we won’t struggle with lust, we won’t mistreat others, we won’t have struggles- ALL of it-ALL pain and sufferings that we face here on earth will be completely GONE.Its comforting. I love day dreaming about eternity sometimes. There's no joy like it when it really hits me, the never-ending peace and joy that we will have when we are finally with our Heavenly Father.

Switchfoot wrote a song about how we don’t fit here, and this isn’t our home, the lyrics are spot on:

"Where I Belong"-Switchfoot

Feeling like a refugee
Like it don't belong to me
The colors flash across the sky

This air feels strange to me
Feeling like a tragedy
I take a deep breath and close my eyes
One last time
One last time

Storms on the wasteland
Dark clouds on the plains again
We were born into the fight

But I'm not sentimental
This skin and bones is a rental
And no one makes it out alive

Until I die I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Feels like we're just waiting, waiting
While our hearts are just breaking, breaking
Feels like we've been fighting against the tide

I wanna see the earth start shaking
I wanna see a generation
Finally waking up inside

Until I die I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

This body's not my own
This world is not my own
But I still can hear the sound
Of my heart beating out
So let's go boys, play it loud

On the final day I die
I want to hold my head up high
I want to tell You that I tried
To live it like a song

And when I reach the other side
I want to look You in the eye
And know that I've arrived
In a world where I belong
In a world where I belong
In a world where I belong

Where I belong
Where I belong

Where I belong

Where I belong

I still believe we can live forever
You and I we begin forever now
Forever now
Forever
I still believe in us together
You and I we're here together now
Together now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever
Forever