Harvest Daily with Greg Laurie - June 13, 2006

Something More

And he arose and came to his father…

—Luke 15:20

I read an interesting story about a cat that decided to leave home one day.   His owners thought they would never see him again, but eight years later, they heard a noise at their door, and in walked a cat.  He started purring away as if he owned the place.   Sure enough, it was their cat.  How he found his way home, I don’t know.  But he had some kind of homing instinct.

We see this instinct in many animals.  For example, every year in San Juan Capistrano, the swallows return to the mission.  Thousands of tourists will gather to watch this take place.  So why is it that the animal kingdom has this ability, yet so many human beings fail when it comes to returning to the God we have forgotten?  Each of us, in a sense, is homesick for heaven.  But we don’t know that’s what it is.  All we know is that we are always looking for something more.

Maybe you set goals when you were young and said, “I know I will be happy when I get a house and a car and I am married and have children.”  Well, now you have the house, the car, the spouse, and the children.  And so you say, “If I just had a bigger house and a couple more children and two cars, then I would be happy.”  There is still something missing.

The Bible says that God has put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11), which means that inside us, there is a sense there is something more, a spiritual drive.  Why?  Because you and I were created to know God.  And like the prodigal son, we won’t be happy until we return to Him.

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