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“I’m bored.” I’m guessing that all routine, the excitement of the trip soon faded and I found
of us have said that myself wandering yet again.
multiple times in our lives. Have you ever found yourself
pulling out your phone waiting for the caramel macchiato God knows we are wanderers because He made us to
that you ordered? Or put on a fake smile while you are wonder and explore, but He is the only one who can ever
behind that old couple at Aldi in the grocery aisle going satisfy our wandering hearts. We get all these grandiose
1mph? Let’s face it: We are impatient. We don’t like ideas and aspirations, but can never quite reach them,
waiting, in lines or at stoplights. We just want to get and even when we occasionally do, they are met with the
where we are going. But once we reach our destination, thought, “This is it?” A great quote from J.R.R. Tolkien, the
we usually are found restless again, waiting for the next writer of The Lord of the Rings, sums up our culture today:
thing to start. The newest trend out there to kill this “Not all who wander are lost.” Not
boredom is to be adventurous. And while sometimes we all of us who wander around
need to get away, vacation just goes by way too quick looking for the next high, the
doesn’t it? Boredom stems from something deeper that is next mountain to climb, or the
missing in our lives because we were made on purpose for next vacation, are lost forever.
a purpose, and our souls will be restless until we find what We all know there is a God deep
we’re made for. down even if we deny it. Romans
1:20 states, “For ever since the
“God knows we are wanderers world was created, people have
seen the earth and sky. Through
because He made us to wonder and everything God made, they can
clearly see his invisible qualities—his
explore, but He is the only one eternal power and divine nature. So
they have no excuse for not
who can ever satisfy our knowing God.” The problem is not
that we don’t know there is a
wandering hearts.” God, but that we don’t know
Him personally as our God.
We’re driven by a need to connect with people and
explore our world. We look for great friends to love and When we go to other things
laugh with, to share in our excitement and adventures. for comfort and escape,
When I stood on the streets of Spain, the buildings were whether it is an object,
pieces of functional art and the country was littered with experience or even another
olive trees as far as the eye could see. It was literally a person, it is a flare of our
different world, different food, humor, smells, fashion, own conscience yelling,
and languages. It caused me to wander all the more, “I’m not fulfilled so I will
wondering where they got their culture and traditions and try to find it here!” Verse
humor. Once I got back to the States and back to my