searching
for fulfillment
by Max Solbrekken
"My
colleagues say that I am a success. Many honors have come my
way, but in the Bible is a sentence which expresses the way
I feel about life: 'We have toiled all night and taken
nothing'."
- Clarence Darrow
famed atheist & criminal lawyer
Everyone has
a dream, desire or goal in life and mankind thirsts for
success, achievement and fulfillment!
By the
standards of his peers, Darrow had reached the pinnacle, yet
he was totally unfulfilled. In order to give expression to
his dissatisfaction, he had to quote the Bible, which he
claimed to
disbelieve.
Clarence
Darrow was the trial lawyer who defended the evolutionary
theory against the Christian patriot William Jennings Bryan,
in the infamous 'Scopes Trial' of the mid 1920's.
After his
great victory in gaining for the evolutionary 'foolosophy'
theory the right to become the official religion of Academe
in US schools, he felt compelled to quote the Bible to
express his emptiness and utter despair in his own efforts!
Here is
his summation of life: "We have toiled all night and
taken nothing"!
His
testimony could undoubtedly be repeated millions of times by
people across the world who have been influential and
successful in their field of endeavor but who have left God
out of their
lives!
Yet, over
the past 30 years I have heard glowing testimonials of
people who in their time of sorrow, rejection,
disillusionment and despair - called out to God for mercy
and received help. God does hear and answer prayer!
The Bible
declares, "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out
of the wells of salvation". (Isaiah 12:3) and,
"For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for
life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy cometh in the
morning". (Ps. 30:5)
King David
declared, "I sought the Lord and He heard me and
delivered me from all my fears".
The Bible
says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life". (John
3:16)
The Bible
says, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting
life: and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see
life; but the wrath of God abideth on him". (1 John
3:36)
FOUR
BASIC DESIRES:
```
Mankind
thirsts after reality.
The
so-called "good times" of this world are like soap
bubbles that look so beautiful in the sunlight, until they
burst into nothing!
``` After
the party, is the hangover.
After the fling, the unwanted pregnancy. And after the drug
scene, AIDS!
``` Everyone
longs to be useful. Rick
Hansen, wheelchair athlete and Canadian hero, is a prime
example of someone seeing an impossible dream come to pass,
by "going the extra mile" to help his
fellowman.
``` John
Wesley -
founder of the Methodist Church stated, "Gain all you
can, save all you can and give all you can."
Instead of cursing the darkness, we should 'light a candle'
and instead of pointing a finger to condemn, we ought to
"hold out a helping
hand."
```
General William Booth -
founder of the Salvation Army - used as his slogan the word
'OTHERS'. He was consumed with the prospects of
blessing his fellowman. HE stated, "Some men's
ambition is art...some fame...some gold....My ambition is
the souls of men."
``` His
wife Evangeline Booth stated,
"Stoop as low as you
lawfully can to pick them up rather than let them become
worse while you stand on your
dignity."
``` We
all seek for fulfillment. Marilyn
Munroe stated, "If I can just be a movie star, I'll be
the happiest person in the world". Her acceptance as a
sex idol and movie star far eclipsed her fondest hopes, yet
she became very unhappy and died from an overdose of pills!
``` No
one can attain to his or her highest
potential without divine help from Jesus Christ! To
reinforce that truth allows me to quote Malcolm Muggeridge -
former Marxist, celebrated writer, broadcaster and actor -
who converted to Jesus Christ:
``` “Christ
is the only answer to an insane world.
They will not understand that
the trouble with the western civilization is not economics,
but mere good and evil!
``` “They
are thinking they can make
things work by policies, inventions, but man will never live
on this planet without God!”
``` Blaise
Pascal warned: “If
they turn away from God, one of two things can happen. They
will think they are gods and go mad or turn to carnality and
become animals”.
``` Most
people have a hunger for the supernatural. Everyone
is created with a desire to worship God, and a vacuum in
their hearts that only He can fill.
``` Some
seek to fill that vacuum through ESP, clairvoyance,
horoscopes or praying to Hindu gods during Transcendental
Meditation...BUT STILL THERE IS NO REAL PEACE!
George
Bernard Shaw stated,
"I am ready to admit after contemplating the world and
human nature for sixty years, that I see no way out of the
world's miseries but by the way that would be found by
Christ's will".
Dr.
Richard Eby, well
known obstetrician, gynecologist and surgeon, fell off a two
story balcony in 1972, and was pronounced dead.
In his
book Caught Up To Paradise, Eby
tells
his supernatural experience. The
former president of the Kansas City College of Osteopathy
& Surgery and the American College of Osteopathic
Obstetricians & Gynecologists, is alive today, and gives
God all the glory.
Jesus
said, "I
am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live".
Without
doubt, putting our trust in God is a lot surer and safer
than entertaining some weird "spirit guide", in an
astro-travel trip!
THE
BOTTOM LINE
What is
the bottom line? Where are we heading when life is over?
What will be the most important thing, then? When it's
"all said and done", the impending all consuming
question still remains, "Where will I spend
eternity?"
The Bible
says, "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: he that believeth not God that made him
a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of
His
Son.
“And
this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life:
and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These
things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life,
and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God".
(1 John 5:10-13)
Here are
two important truths: No. 1 - If you believe God's Word
concerning His Son Jesus Christ you have life. No. 2 - If
you do not, you have death because you have called God a
liar and rejected His Son Jesus Christ, Who is Life!
My
dear friend, Do the only proper and
intelligent thing - Humble yourself and ask God for mercy,
confessing Jesus Christ as your Lord & Saviour!
And
He has promised to hear and answer your prayer, bringing
peace, joy & eternal life to you!
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