Fatal Success Or An All-Satisfying Savior

This short letter was written this past week (to be mailed along with other bits of encouragement from others) to those who attend Fellowship Bible Church in Tulsa, but who are away to college or serve in the armed forces. My prayer is that it encourages you as well:

I’m not that old. And I’m guessing you probably aren’t, either. But you don’t have to be of a certain age or skill level—you don’t have to achieve a great deal of success or master a lot of things—in order to make your life count. However, practically our entire educations have been devoted to get us to think otherwise, as if human achievement and success actually satisfy the longings of our souls.

But success doesn’t satisfy. It can be fatal! The American Dream (of fatal success) takes many forms and claims countless lives, daily. And I pray that as your read these words, that you deeply consider the meaning of your own life. How fulfilled are you? As far as I’m concerned, in order to make your life count, you only need to know a few simple, life-changing, and eternally-satisfying truths about the depth and riches of His love toward those who believe (Eph 3:18)—and be willing to trade in your life for them—to have a truly purposeful and meaningful existence.
O brother and sister, I pray that we come to know the everlasting riches and mercy of the Cross, and that it transforms every area of our lives, so that when our time comes to meet our Father in heaven, we might not have empty hands and broken dreams to offer Him.

But rather, that our lives would be so consumed by the power and riches of the Holy Spirit, that His love flows freely through us like living water, gushing from a fountain (John 7:38). My prayer is that you be filled with the love of Christ, to know the power of Him who has called you, and to be willing to lay down that which was never yours to take in the first place, in exchange for the everlasting fulfillment found serving an all satisfying Savior.

In Him,

Sean Roberts