How Can You Tell When Something is Missing?
Homes, cars, money, clothes, food, gym, OPPORTUNITY, movies, games, events, church, meetings, friends, CHOICES, work, technology, cell phones, family, spouse, kids, plugged in… it’s all NOT ENOUGH.
We've been there. We've spent our adult lives looking for that last puzzle piece -- be it financial success, the perfect relationship, owning a home in a nice neighborhood, whatever -- and we were shocked to find that none of those pieces fit. So we tried to bend them, force them into the open space of our lives, but that just made us feel trapped and stressed out.
We've been there. We've spent our adult lives looking for that last puzzle piece -- be it financial success, the perfect relationship, owning a home in a nice neighborhood, whatever -- and we were shocked to find that none of those pieces fit. So we tried to bend them, force them into the open space of our lives, but that just made us feel trapped and stressed out.
Try Our Checklist: Does This Describe You?
You have a home full of toys, but you can’t wait for the next new thing.
You’re just waiting for the bottom to fall out.
You use technology to escape (gaming, pornography, Facebook, mindless TV shows, excess movie-watching, etc).
You’re just going through the motions.
Church (if you attend) is your social club or just another activity.
You feel disconnected in general (from yourself, others, or God).
You spend money to feel better or more alive.
You just feel that deep inside, something is missing.
You’re just waiting for the bottom to fall out.
You use technology to escape (gaming, pornography, Facebook, mindless TV shows, excess movie-watching, etc).
You’re just going through the motions.
Church (if you attend) is your social club or just another activity.
You feel disconnected in general (from yourself, others, or God).
You spend money to feel better or more alive.
You just feel that deep inside, something is missing.
When You're Ready to Find What's Missing...
Let's be honest -- you need to WANT to find the missing puzzle piece. The real one. Not the pieces you forced to fit over the years, bent and broken at the edges.
Those broken pieces must go -- things like envy, pride, intentional chaos, self-centeredness, needing to have the next best thing, wanting to be better than other people, self-righteousness, too much shopping, internet addiction, more virtual relationships than actual ones, overspending, FEAR, overeating, pornography, lying, negative self-talk, GREED, needing to be right all the time, prejudice, RAGE, selfishness, sex addiction, weed, meth, self-pity, arrogance. The list can go on and on.
You need to want to find the real missing piece, not the fake placeholders. You need to want it, because nobody else can want it for you. So how do you know when you're ready for the real thing? When you want it more than the other things you tried to make fit.
You don't have to be totally free from the brokenness. You don't even need to clean yourself up. You just need to WANT to find the real thing more than you want to keep the broken and bent pieces. That's the first step.
Those broken pieces must go -- things like envy, pride, intentional chaos, self-centeredness, needing to have the next best thing, wanting to be better than other people, self-righteousness, too much shopping, internet addiction, more virtual relationships than actual ones, overspending, FEAR, overeating, pornography, lying, negative self-talk, GREED, needing to be right all the time, prejudice, RAGE, selfishness, sex addiction, weed, meth, self-pity, arrogance. The list can go on and on.
You need to want to find the real missing piece, not the fake placeholders. You need to want it, because nobody else can want it for you. So how do you know when you're ready for the real thing? When you want it more than the other things you tried to make fit.
You don't have to be totally free from the brokenness. You don't even need to clean yourself up. You just need to WANT to find the real thing more than you want to keep the broken and bent pieces. That's the first step.
