Looking for fulfillment in all the right places

Yesterdays devotion was about getting caught up in the crowd, and sometimes finding yourself more lost than you started out. The devotion said that if you instead put more energy into following Gods path, you'll find yourself where you should be instead or where they are. So I went to school this morning with this devotion in my mind, and I was amazed to see just how many examples of people being too lost in the crowd, it made me wanna slap them in the face with my devotion book. But no really? I didn't think someone could get too lost, maybe just lost, but they did.

So now to today's devotion: "i am the gate. anyone who goes through me will be cared for and will freely go in and out, and find pasture. A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary." John 10:9-11

Two observations, (a devotion trick learned in youth group).. God promises us a REAL, an ETERNAL, and a BETTER life, if we walk through him, the gate. Second, just like the shepherd sacrifices himself for his sheep, Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins! (were Jesus's fluffy little sheep) :)

"if we don't find contentment in God, we will never find it anywhere else. But, if we seek Him and obey him, we will be blessed with an inner peace beyond human understanding." From this quote from the devotional I took two very significant things...
1). If we aren't satisfied with our lives, are we right with god? Because if we were, he promises us a better, an eternal and a real life... Why aren't we getting all those things? Maybe because we are Not giving him what we need too!
2). Instead of complaining about what we don't have, appreciate what we do, and thank god for another day.

To end today's devotion, I'll leave with this quote... "we will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings." Stormie Omartian

Blessings and love,
Alicia