The search ends here. The search for joy, pleasure, meaning, purpose and satisfaction. I know without question that what God has done in my heart is something that everyone is looking for in one way or another, or many ways. May we all have eyes to see and ears to hear these glorious truths!

How do I describe it...?

God is perfect and complete within Himself. In His Own Existence, He is perfectly sufficient! He doesn't need us, because He doesn't have any needs. However, because of His amazing glory and holiness, He loves us and wants us. The same way that He is sufficient in Himself, He wants to be our sufficiency as well. When we are completely, over-the-top, sold-out satisfied in Him alone(which we can only be through Christ's redemptive work) we no longer need people or things or anything else. And we become gloriously, utterly free -- free to love people, including ourselves, and to want relationship with the real them, not because of our own need, but because God's own unconditional love for them is overflowing through us. We are free from all fear, including fear of pain and failure. Free from the heavy burdens of duty and striving. Free from guilt and covetousness and condemnation.

I believe with my whole heart that God wants us to be so full of joy in Him, that we can honestly say this: Even if I were alone, homeless, hungry and painfully ill, with not a penny or possession to my name, I would be content. Jesus, You truly are all I need.