To have a fulfilled life you can’t be lazy. Inactivity is not fulfilling. Have you noticed that inactive people have the least, want the most, and are the neediest. Young or old opportunity eludes this group. The me first generation of pleasure seekers, the selfish, self-centered, self-interested, egotistical and addicts are also a close cousin to this false hope of flawed reality. Yes, even the addicted are also searching for comfort, pleasure, and escape through their drug of choice and it shows.
Fulfillment stirs up restlessness because it’s active. Our world tells us activity at times is what we need rest from; that activities can be a drain. But people — fulfillment is not stationary, so what kind of activity or the lack of is the drain? You’ve all heard it – the golfer needs a break from golf so they do something else, and we need a break from something else so we golf, get it, see the cycle, and on it goes. You don’t need a break from fulfillment, you run to it.
Scripture tells us it’s a time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1), but know this, fulfillment is endless and timeless. To be in a constant search for pleasure, or too remain in your comfort zone, is to stop in a given moment of time, then departing and unloading from the reason we’re here. We see this in people all the time, they can only talk about times up to the period when they stopped or were cut off voluntarily or involuntarily, as a result — checking into a comfort zone; then there’s nothing beyond that point. Listen; slowing the pace a little, yes, but un-boarding, no. A lion that don’t hunt don’t eat.
Some people because of their lack of understanding only have this me generation as a barometer that falsely tells them what they’re doing is fulfilling. For them — they’ve arrived. For them — fulfillment was obtained because society (that’s us who peer into the lives of people defining them rather than the other way around), deemed it so. These souls sit high on their own perch. They don’t have fulfillment — they’ve found a comfort zone that’s paying off. We know of many people who society feels have everything but ended their lives by their own hands because of the absence of fulfillment.
Fulfillment is in God’s will and purpose for your life. If it’s about you — it’s temporary so it’s not fulfillment (Psalm 102:3), if it’s worldly — it’s temporary so it’s not fulfillment (2nd Corinthians 4:18), and scripture says it’s no good thing in the flesh, (Romans 7:18), so, where’s fulfillment? (Please read the first sentence of this paragraph.) Now don’t be fooled with the confusions the world is selling trying to fuel your heart with its warped views of fulfillment putting value in stuff and you buying into it, it’s not real; fake to use the term of the day.
You can’t find fulfillment because you’re either in it or out of it, but is recognizable when you have it because it’s discerning/revealed, and rewarded; but for certain, a comfort zone will not, can not, and does not invite it.
Gaidi
Word of note: A comfort zone is your safehouse. Fulfillment is found by not playing it safe; but working in your comfort zone is fulfilling if that comfort zone’s value/reward is greater than you; not for you. Only then can you understand fulfillment’s presence and its worth.
