Content as a I may be

Wow. I hope that you can feel as deeply contented as I feel at this moment. I don't know where to go first- to talk about how much freedom there is in resting, or to talk about the Lord, and how He is the only One and only thing in existence who could ever satisfy fully.

I will suffice with the latter. It is, after all, where any of my rest is found.

I have been reading the monologue of Solomon. This man is so real. Truly, I feel I am in his mind and in his heart as he writes these words out, considering each thought as he pens it:

"Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity!...
  The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
  What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done,
  And there is nothing new under the sun...
  I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after    wind."
          - Solomon 1:2,8b,9,14

He harnessed his wisdom, and directed all energy towards finding fulfillment in life under the sun. He snapped his reigns in every direction in search of purpose. And found nothing under the sun that would satisfy. What has been is what will be, and everything is but a striving after wind.

What is there, then, to satisfy? Where can man find his satisfaction?

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
          - John 1:1-5

Before the earth was created- before it was afforded its many pleasures- be them mountains, be them the depths of the ocean, there was only Him. He alone was the source of any pleasure. There was only One Place to seek fulfillment.

Only him.

All else is darkness compared to him. And in him, the darkness is as light. Existence, with no earth and with no sun, is as light with him.

I hardly notice if I have anything else, for He was my only satisfaction from the beginning.