What does the world offer me?

Fame and fortune? Yeah, perhaps. Freedom to do my own thing? That’s for sure.

Treasures and trinkets? Indeed! I’m still enticed by “bigger and better and more.” (And I would still like to own house, big and self-designed.)

Comfort and pleasure and leisure? Yes, lots of that, at least in my part of the world.

When these things draw me, I need to remember Jesus and His cross:

“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14).

Let me die to the world and what it offers.

Let the world die to me.

Because I want Jesus and what He gives.

If I were to define fulfilled, I would say something like, “Filled full; rounded out; made complete; finished; satisfied.”

I thought of that word because I found it here:

“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Galatians 5:14).

So loving my neighbor satisfies all the law.

Loving my neighbor puts the finishing touches onto the law, making it complete.

How can this be?!

I don’t know for sure. It seems to me that all aspects of the law that govern my relationships with others would be unnecessary for me…if I were to love others as myself.

For that, I need His love stamped in my heart.