Are you toasting?

Today I had to go to the doctors office and fill out a "happiness level" form, which had all sorts of questions on it. Im sure most of you have filled one of these things out.. every question has a rating from 0 - 5 and you have to circle how often you feel depressed or think about dying etc.

I was happy to realize that I could very truthly circle 0's for every answer because God really has taken me and made my life so incredible. I mean we all have our ups and downs, I if anyone cry pretty regularily over things like chick flicks etc. ;) but I think the biggest thing that makes me life different is that I am living for a purpose.

My hairdresser is not a christian and I feel so bad for her becuase she honestly has no purpose to living besides cutting hair and living with her boyfriend.

We were created for so much more, and only when we are living for what we are created, will we truly feel satisfied.

Think of a toaster. A toaster can hold up a couch...and thats cool and everything, but the whole time it is propping up one end, it must be thinking to itself...I feel like I am doing something...but I am just not fulfilled...I feel like I was created for something else...

and that is like us when we try to do anything other than what we were created for

We were created to be in a RELATIONSHIP with Christ. If we are in a relationship of any kind with ANYONE else, it will not satisfy, becuase every inch of our being was created to be satisfied by one specific person: Jesus.

We were created to worship! To understand the greatness of our God and truly truly love Him. If we love anything else it will not satisfy, if we adore anything else we will still be incomplete.

We were created to love. We are emotional beings, much more than any other creature, and we were created to love everyone around us, not just our spouse or boyfriend, but everyone we come in contact with, even those people that drive us nuts. If we are not doing this we will be antsy becuase we are not doing what we were created to do.

We were created to live outside of our comfort zone. Weird I know....but God did not create us to live out our whole lives in safety, peace and comfort, having the ability to get what we want when we want it. If we do this we will not feel completely satisfied becuase we were created to do much more.

And the list goes on.

What were you created for?
Are you fulfilled?