Pursuit of a Watch

Nice watches have always captured my eye. Whenever I was in the mall I would find the most expensive watch store and just let it captivate my eyes. I would then go to wal mart or khols and search for a watch that looked similar to it just so I could have this perception of cool. I would spend sixty or seventy dollars on a watch that just looked like the real watch I desired. But yet it never was the real thing. When I finished my time at Norwich university my dad bought me the watch of my dreams. It was a Breitling Bentley motors watch. I have wanted this one style of watches ever since I saw blue angle pilots wearing them. I thought they were the most amazing things in the world. And now I finally had one. I love this watch. I wear it every chance I get.

My watch got me thinking the other day. When I was a kid I saw something that captivated my eye. I worked my tail off just to save up enough money to buy an imitation of that watch. But yet I still desired the real thing. I still wanted the real thing and even daydreamed about how amazing it would be the day that I had the real thing on my wrist.

Its just like our lives. We search for love. We try to find it everywhere. We see exactly what we want and pursue it. WE fight for it and wind up the proud owner of a sad imitation that will never satisfy us. We search for it in any aspect and avenue we can find and yet we still are not satisfied with the results. We are broke and broken, spent physically, spent mentally, and even spent emotionally. We are at our rock bottom. This period in life sucks. We have done everything we can to feel that love we so desperately search for. We try and find it in money, our jobs, possessions, athletics, and even our romantic relationships. We can never find it though. Nothing seems to fill that hole.

But it has always amazed me that when we are at our rock bottom God always shows up. He shows up and lets us know that he is not only still God but he loves us and is in total control over every aspect of our life. He gives us that true watch that we have been looking for. He gives us that pure love we have searched and it makes us feel complete. We want to show it off and tell the world about it. The cheap imitations do not satisfy us anymore. This is the main thing that has captured our love and our attention just like my watch.