Are you satisfied?

Some quotes never get old. Time and time again God uses them to snap us back to reality. The following quote does that for me. It comes from a man named J. Campbell White who was the founder of the Layman's Missionary Movement. He said:

Most men are not satisfied with the permanent output of their lives. Nothing can wholly satisfy the life of Christ within his followers except the adoption of Christ's purpose toward the world he came to redeem. Fame, pleasure and riches are but husks and ashes in contrast with the boundless and abiding joy of working with God for the fulfillment of his eternal plans. The men who are putting everything into Christ's undertaking are getting out of life its sweetest and most priceless rewards (quoted in John Piper, When I Don't Desire God, 229).

I hope that we will not be satisfied with anything less than the boundless joy of working with God for the fulfilment of his mission.