Blood From a Turnip, Water From a Rock
By Eric Abney
When was the last time you set out for some sort of escapade only to find yourself let down by what you experienced. It happens quite often, we look for some sort of satisfaction in different things and in different ways. Some of us try to accomplish things and in all the doing we just don’t feel as though we have done enough. Others of us look to people to help us feel what we want to feel, but people have consistently let us down. Sometimes we buy possessions hoping that when we have them we will attain some sort of fullness. Many of us try to control our situations and circumstances. In doing so we think we will get what we need. Often we may try to become whatever the circumstances may call for. We do this because we want to be liked and ultimately we want to fit in, but even in trying to become all things to all people we may feel lacking at the end of the day.
Could it be that in all of these things we were never suppose to get real satisfaction and completeness. If I’m honest I hear this come to life when people begin to talk about their first sexual experience. They say, “It didn’t give me what I thought I was going to get.” Which poses the question: “What are we looking for?” I think we are looking for love. We are also looking to be accepted. We want to feel some sense of value, a sense of being worthy or worth something. We all want to feel safe, to have some sense of security. Time after time we launch out on our own to try and satisfy these needs. We can not satisfy them. We can’t satisfy them for ourselves, nor for other people. Don’t get me wrong, we can do it for a while, but it ends up being futile. There is a design and blueprint that is a part of us. It is at the center of our being. That design was for someone far bigger than us to meet these crucial needs. We can only know true love, real acceptance, intrinsic value, and certain security in the person of who God is. Everything else is only trying to squeeze blood out of a turnip or press water out of a rock. It won’t happen, it can’t happen. It’s not the way it was designed to happen.
Be Challenged and Live Adventurously,
-Eric
“But I still havn’t found what I’m lookin’ forrrr”
BONO
I was thinking of the old country song I heard when I was a kid “Looking for love in all the wrong places”.
Really spoke to me man……mine as well jump band wagon…….”I can’t get no…..ba ba ba babababa Satisfaction”…