Satisfaction

In talking with many of my peers, most have told me that true satisfaction comes from having proper relationships. When they are right with God, family, friends, and others, they feel true satisfaction. All of them specifically mentioned being right with God, focused on God, or serving God when talking about the time they have been most satisfied. It would make sense that God is the source of satisfaction, since He commands believers to relate to Him throughout the entire Bible and offers joy and satisfaction to His followers.

Interestingly, none of the people I asked have told me that they felt satisfied from entertainment, health, money, education, possessions, or themselves. A few have even told me that they have never been satisfied with life. This also makes sense because the world's system is based on lust and pride.

C.S. Lewis described lust as, "an ever increasing desire for an ever decreasing satisfaction." Lust allows you take another step towards supposed satisfaction, but never allows you to get there. Whatever it is that you enjoy his no limit to how much you can get involved with it. There are always stronger drugs to take, stronger drinks to drink, finer foods to taste, higher mountains to climb, longer papers to write, and more prestigious goals to set. You can buy something new, but there will always be something newer or better. You can get into better shape, but you won't be satisfied because you can still tighten this or shrink that or bulge something else. You can earn another degree, but there is still more out there left to learn.

Pride is perhpas more destructive than lust. Lust is from without, pride is from within. Pride looks within a person for satisfaction, and leaves that person feeling inadequate every time. Pride is what drives skinny people to starve themselves because they are not skinny enough. Pride is what drives people to desparate measures for fame, and popularity. Pride puts itself before any other person in order to make itself greater. Yet the more a person looks withing himself, the more he will realize his inadequacies, and the more he will have to push himself to meet his own standards. Similar to lust, you can never arrive to where you want to be, there is always another level to push yourself to.

My question to the world is this: why do we expend so many of our resources in attempts of finding satisfaction with the things that do not satisfy? Why don't we put our efforts into finding satisfaction with God?