The Purest Form of Fulfillment

Everyone wants to experience fulfillment in their lives and many search for it outwardly. Although it’s the outward things that pour into us to bring about fulfillment, it’s not the outward things that we are seeking.

Let me put it this way, when you pour yourself a cup of coffee, are you wanting the coffee-pot or the coffee?

How about when pouring yourself a cup of milk; are you wanting the milk or the jug?

You want what’s inside the container.

Just like when someone pours into you, you’re not necessarily wanting the person, you’re wanting their wisdom and knowledge.

Similar to the milk jug, let’s imagine fulfillment as a container; do you want the container or do you want what’s inside?

People have contaminated themselves into believing that fulfillment is about what happens to them and for them, but fulfillment is not about outward success, accomplishment, status, position, or outcome.

Fulfillment is the inward transformation of character through the process of continual growth and pouring into others.

True fulfillment is more about what happens in you and through you. If that’s the case, then what is the purest form of fulfillment?

In his letter to the Ephesians the Apostle Paul says it plainly, “To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

The purest form of fulfillment is to be filled with all the fullness of God. And the way to do that is by knowing the love of Christ.

This is not the same as knowing God loves you, it’s knowing His love. When you have all the fullness of God in you then you’ll experience the most significant and purest form of fulfillment anyone could ever have.

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