Through this post, I am hoping to become better informed about what different people (Christians and non-Christians) find to be most fulfilling in life.
To most Christians, a life with Christ is sufficiently fulfilling. This is perhaps an incorrect assumption on my part. Some Christians may even expand upon the fact that a life with Christ has practical implications that one could find to be most fulfilling. What about non-Christians, what do they find to be most fulfilling? I suspect that non-Christians would almost certainly not say that they find a life with Christ to be most fulfilling. I could be wrong again.
So tell me, whether you are a Christian or not, what would you find or do you already know to be most fulfilling in life?
Do you already feel fulfilled in Life?
If you do not mind, please state if you are under or over 30 years old when answering. Otherwise, simply describe what you would find, or already know, to be most fulfilling in life.
And state if you already feel fulfilled in life with any additional comments or observations.
In anticipation of your responses, comments, etc., I thank you all!
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Blessings and best wishes - S.
I am 66. I believe the secret of happiness is to do the will of God. Which isn't too useful. Because how can one know the will of God? I don’t think we can rely of religion to tell us. Though through parents and preachers and teachers and friends, good people all, we get a sense of right and wrong. But not so much a sense of the right relationship with God. And what would it be like to do the will of God. The most our religions come up with is a set of moral principles. The Ten Commandments, etc.
How can one know the will of God? I recommend meditation. I recommend hard listening. Find yourself a place and time filled with silence. Filled with emptiness. Sit down, get comfortable. Which for many of us is to sit up straight. Close your eyes and listen. Sit there for 20 minutes a day. Some say twice a day. Which might be better. For monks and suchlike. Busy people can probably only manage once a day.
And in this age of instant gratification, don’t expect results right away. At least not big ones. You rise from your first sitting refreshed. But frustrated. At least if you expect to hear God. Or come into God’s presence in any way you might expect. You have to keep doing it. Keep listening. And I mean 20 minutes. Devote some time. Arrange your schedule. And over months and years you start realizing that God was talking to you all along. Using your own voice. You get a review, probably, of what is going on in your life. And you start figuring out what to say or do. How to think about things. If you expect to get God’s perspective on God’s plan, if you expect to find a role as savior, if you expect to figure out how to call down the power of God to work miracles, you will be disappointed. But if you keep listening, your life straightens out. You start understanding how people around you tick. You start seeing what you need to do to love them. You start doing kind things. Loving things. Good ripples out from you and washes up on other people and gets reflected back. Love blooms. You bloom where you are planted. And gradually you recognize that you were somehow instrumental in bringing about an instance of the Kingdom of heaven. Which is at hand. As Jesus said.
This, I would say, is the utmost fulfillment a person can have.
Cheers.
Jim