Nothing In This World
Dear Champions,The short excerpt is by Tim Keller, and the Scripture is Isaiah 55:2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
In every single one of us there is a raging, unquenchable and all consuming thirst that leads us to decide that nothing is good enough and will ever satisfy us. We all have an infinite capacity for boredom and irritability with anything, even the best things. The more successful you are the faster you come to realize that you have a bottomless pit inside of you. There is a black hole and an infinite vacuum in you and me, and it does not matter what I put in there. At first it is great, she is great, or he is great. Then, after awhile I find fault, and I want to pull away.
I have a large folder filled with quotes from successful people and famous people who after they got to the top, said, I do not know what happened, but I wanted to kill myself. Boris Becker, for example, the tennis great, looking back on his life said that when he was at the height of his power, achievement and fame, he wanted to kill himself. Why? Because when he got all those things, he still felt empty. He said, I had won Wimbledon twice, and once I was the youngest player to ever do so. I was rich, and I had all the material possessions that I needed. I guess it is like the old song about movies and pop stars who want to commit suicide. They have everything, and yet they are so unhappy. It is true. I had nothing on the inside.
Like I said, it goes faster if you are successful, but we are all on our way. Unless there is a cure or a medicine or a treatment or some kind of intervention, we are all on our way to being unhappy with anything and with everything. Nothing will ever be good enough. If there is nothing in this world that ever satisfies me, then it must mean that I am made for something beyond this world.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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