October 4

Did you ever hear the saying, “God don’t make no junk”? We’ve all complained about how we are—how we look or what we’ve achieved (or haven’t achieved) and some well-meaning friend has admonished, “God don’t make no junk.” Cute. Felt really great about yourself once you heard that. Or not?

Flip little quips don’t traverse the span in our minds that is a great gulf between our reality and the hopes and dreams we have for ourselves. Even those who have attained great things with their lives, who have received the accolades of men, still have a gnawing hunger within themselves for something more.

Ephesians 2:10 gives us tremendous insight into the root of our dissatisfaction and the remedy for it. Here we are told, “We are God’s handiwork, born anew in Christ Jesus in order that we may do the good works God has ordained for us to do and walking in the path He has set before us.”

No matter how brilliantly we go through life, no matter how successfully we overcome all life’s challenges, until we have put our feet on the course that leads to the accomplishment of those things in the spiritual realm that the Lord who designed us for eternity desires that we do, we will feel unfulfilled.