Looking for You

  Last week I started reading The Confessions Of Saint Augustine. I had purchased the book in June and then let it marinate in a stack of books sitting by my bed that I am set to read. To be honest, the book terrified me. From what I had heard of St. Augustine, he was intense and his train of thought was often too much for minds such as mine. I was not wrong, as I discovered soon after I began Confessions, but I also found his writing to be worth every bit of the brainwork it takes me to comprehend what he is saying.
  In Confessions, Saint Augustine is taking into account all of his past deeds and confessing his sins to God. So while it is an autobiography, The Confessions Of Saint Augustine is written as a prayer which gives it an interesting dynamic. The first chapter of the book opens with these words, "You are Great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit. And man, who is part of your creation, wishes to praise you, man who bears about within himself his mortality, who bears about within himself the testimony to his sin and testimony that you resist the proud. Yet man, this part of your creation, wishes to praise you. You arouse him to take joy in praising you, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
  That is so true. When I allow myself to drown in the busyness of life, when I start looking for fulfillment in anything but Christ, my soul is restless. My soul refuses to be content apart from Christ, because Christ is who I was made for. I am restless looking for Him.