What The Bible Says About Fulfilment, Contentment and Ambition | Talking To Talkers | Tolulope Moody

I'll put on one side a godly drive to be fruitful.

But on the other side, I'll put like a generational culture-driven dissatisfaction.

Because, see, when you're saying I desire more, in Genesis 128, there's actually something that God puts in us.

that is not to just sit down.

In Genesis 1.28, when God created man, God blessed the man and he said, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

And so there is a God wiring in me to say, no, no, no, you can't just sit down there and just be, you know, still.

There's a fruitfulness, there's a pursuit to subdue the earth, to reach into more, to do more.

There's a God thing in us, a godly drive in every one of his creatures to be fruitful.

But on the other side of it, maybe we have to untangle the generational culture-driven dissatisfaction.

In 2 Corinthians 10 and verse 12, Paul says that we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves.

Now let's read from there everybody together.

But they measuring themselves by themselves And otherwise, so Paul would say that if we start to compare ourselves, and that's the big, he says there's no wisdom to that.

Maybe again, there's just that self-obsession or entitlement that might be driving a dissatisfaction.

Why do you want more this morning? Why do you want more than you have in life right now? It might look like two people doing the same thing.

Watch me.

It might look like two people doing the same thing.

It might look like two people that are single and they both say, I want to be married.

And you say, why? For one of them, it's that there's a God mandate that desires more to be fruitful, to multiply, to increase and all of that.

But for the other person doing the same thing, it might just be that at this age and I look at everybody and I think I deserve a little more in life.

It can be the same thing.

You might want your business to expand.

You might want more in career.

You might want a degree from an Ivy League school.

But the engine driving two things can be entirely different.

And what we'll eventually see today as we look at this is that when we're running on God's expectation, it is God-sponsored.