This season of life has been designed to move you to a place of dependence on the Spirit of God. If you’re trying to find your fulfillment in a person, a pursuit or a possession, you’re likely to meet with frustration and disappointment. Nothing can give you contentment like being your authentic self in the presence of God. He is the only true rock of stability. Mere humans cannot always provide the safety and validation you need, but unconditional love and acceptance can be found in God.
Acts 17:27-28 — God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’a]”>[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’b]”>[b]
Eccles. 3:11 — God has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]
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