Every so often someone will say “I want more”. Usually they mean it in a good way. They have received or experienced or witnessed some thing or event and have internalized it. They have consumed it, if you will. Then measuring the effect or impact of it, they determine it was desirable then and should be again. I want more chocolate, more dessert, more water, more money, more movie, more exercise, more pleasure, more knowledge, more understanding, more words to put after more.
There is a primary truth involved with this phrase that must guide our considerations of its impact. The reason more is desired is because what was consumed was not enough. Not that the quantity or quality were insufficient, but rather that it did not bring satisfaction. It did not provide completeness. When something is completely wet adding moisture to it will not change it. If someplace is completely dark taking away more light is not possible. If a place is completely cold, then taking away more heat is not possible because there is none to remove. For the definition of cold is the absence of measurable heat.
If I want more peanuts then mentally or physically I have not consumed enough peanuts. If I desire to be more like God then I give ascent that I am not as near being Godlike or Godly as I suppose I aught to be.
Our relationship with the creator of the universe is one in which He has provided all for our good. He has instructed us in the ways of His rightness so we might also be like Him. Yet we desire more. So we must with care assume either we have not received all He has intended for us or we have decided that what He has provided is insufficient to our desire.
He made it all, He paid it all, so He might bade us all to trade it all for Him. What piece of His creation is so deeply satisfying that experiencing it makes all else of no consequence? What taste, what touch, what tomorrow, what … indeed what? Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God, Offers Himself without equal, without attachment, without knowledge of any other able to satiate exclusively.
I want to remind you of one piece of Holy Scripture. I want you to know it and own it as your own completeness. In the gospel of Luke, the third book of the New Testament. In the tenth chapter and the forty second verse. There is the path, the guide, the direction of peaceful contentment that will allow you to never again say “I want more”.
There it says “Mary has chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her”.
So content in Jesus that all else is not. So full in Him that there is no room for more; not now, not ever again. It is the choice that ends all other choice. It is enough.