"If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for passionate sense of what can be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility." - Soren Kierkegaard
So often our focus is on "getting". "If I only had more money, I could have this or that. I wouldn't have any problems if I only had X". Kierkegaard (and Biggie Smalls) reminds us that more money, pleasure, or other worldly things will never truly satisfy our soul or our desire to get more. Just take a look at all of the billionaires out there. How many of them look truly happy? It wasn't until Bill Gates started his foundation and started giving away his money to help create hope for the hopeless did his joy appear.
Possibility, the hope of something to come, is satisfying in and of itself. The joy that comes from the possibility that we will see Christ one day as a fulfillment of the New Covenant is the joy that cannot be contained or explained.
So let us not work for finite prizes or recognition. Let us go through each day expecting God will do something miraculous in us and through us. Let us take the time to experience the joy that goes along with the knowledge that Christ died for you and me and what has been done on Calvary can never be negated.
God is awesome and he loves you with an everlasting, passionate and exciting love.
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