We Were Made for So Much More

If you haven’t noticed Tom Brady has problems. We all do.

In 2007 after having won three Super Bowl rings Tom Brady told interviewer Steve Kroft, “Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there’s something greater out there for me?...I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, ‘it’s got to be more than this.’ I mean this isn’t, this can’t be what it’s all cracked up to be.”

When Kroft asked him, “What’s the answer?” Brady responded, “I wish I knew. I wish I knew. I love playing football, but at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I’m trying to find.” 

                        

                        “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” Bono

                              “I can’t get no satisfaction.” Mick Jagger

This constant theme of ‘there’s got to be something more’ is not just for highly visible celebrities, but for all of us. The band Switchfoot said it well,

               We we’re made to live for so much more, have we lost ourselves?
                      Somewhere we live inside dreaming about Providence
                                And whether mice or men have second tries
                           Maybe we've been living with our eyes half open
                                 Maybe we're bent and broken, broken
                                 We want more than this world's got to offer
                              And everything inside screams for second life

There is more to life than our achievements, goals, reputation, agreement, doing good and being a nice person. There is more to life than our comfort and avoiding conflict. Life is more than duty and obligation. More than others’ expectations and approval. It is more than our outward appearance and intelligence. More than…

As Solomon well said there is more to life than chasing the winds of hoarding affluence and pleasure (Ecclesiastes 2:1-11; 5:8-12). While God can give us wealth and possessions to enjoy He wants something so much more for us than what we’ve been told. The culture and well-meaning friends have duped us in believing that a satisfying life is to be lived on our own terms and definitions. In other words, I’ll do it my way. God’s way is far better.

As Jesus said, “I have come so you may have life and have it in abundance.”
Jesus was not talking about how the culture defined abundance. He was saying despite life’s hardships we could experience life how it was truly meant to be, a life full of contentment, meaning and joy found only in a relationship with Him.

Without God who can eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness. Ecclesiastes 2:25-26

God wants more for you than you might expect.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20

Find out what can happen when we grasp how we were made for so much more in the next blog.