What Do I Still Lack?

The rich young man approaches Jesus with one question on his mind: “What must I do for eternal life?” When Jesus tells him to obey the law given to Moses for all of Israel, the man is confident he has kept all the law. Yet he knows he’s still missing something: “What do I still lack?” he asks (Matthew 19:20). We all ask ourselves this question in different forms. “What am I missing?” “Why doesn’t anyone like me?” “Why am I not good enough?” “How am I such a failure?” “Why can’t I do anything right?” However, Jesus responds to all these questions with a simple response: “What you value more than Me is stopping you from resting in Me.” It is only in Jesus that you are called a son or daughter of the Most High God, only in Jesus that you are fully known and fully loved. It is only in resting in Jesus—and what He did—that we find true peace and rescue from sin and death (Ephesians 2:8-10). In Him, we receive eternal life and true fulfillment. What do we still lack? In Christ, we lack nothing. Jesus loved us, delivered Himself up for us on the cross, and rose from the grave—providing us a path to eternal life. Therefore, we have everything in Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). • Samuel Dennis • What do you feel you are lacking in your life? • Where do you go for ultimate fulfillment? • How does Jesus fulfill your wants and needs? • What would it look like for you to run to Jesus instead of other things? And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my [Jesus’] sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. Matthew 19:29 (NIV)

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Matthew 19:16-30