Some people make absolute declarations like, “If I could just come into possession of $5 million, I would be okay,” or “If I can just be one of the top 5 professionals in my industry, I’m set.” And then there are relative statements like, “Ah, if I can have the life of my favorite influencer, minister, artist, or popular figure, I am made!”

Let me give you a disclaimer: YOU WOULD NOT BE OKAY!

Whatever sources a thing is what it originates from and what ultimately sustains it. The makeup of man is uniquely wired to ensure that God is his only satisfaction.

“Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.” –Psalms 42:7 NKJV

“He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God].”-Ecclesiastes 3:11a AMP

How does something created within the ambit of time and a fleeting trend satisfy a heart created to be satisfied by eternity? How does something that doesn’t cross over to the other side of the divides of time satisfy man? There’s no combination of fleeting trends and fleeting things that satisfies a thirsty soul.

Biology offers a helpful metaphor. To do a transplant of any organ in the body, there’s a battery of tests you need to conduct to ascertain alignment and fit. It’s only to the extent that the organ transplant aligns that it remains integrated into the body. If there’s a mismatch, then there’s a rejection. Sometimes the rejection is catastrophic and immediate, and at other times it’s gradual. The body doesn’t tell you that it has outrightly rejected the transplant, but it throws up a series of symptoms that, when diagnosed, show that underpin.

Just like a fish was made with water in mind, we were made with God in mind, in His image and in His likeness. He was the reference point. The template that sourced our creation is God. When we are far away from God or decide to make something else the focus and object of our satisfaction, like a mismatched transplant, it may look like we are okay initially, but eventually, the mismatch of depth starts to show signs. Nowadays, there are fanciful names for it that distract people from the true problem — a godless consciousness.

The knowledge of our anatomy helps us to understand our physiology. When we understand make-up, design, and form, we understand function and utilization. Form begets function; design underpins definition.

And it works in reverse: the creator thinks function first and then creates form to align with the function. To the creator, form is secondary to function. To the created, we must understand form first before we understand function. Function is primary, but form must first be understood.

The futility of leaving God to chase other things is a symptom of a heart steeped in ignorance. And this is not an attempt to be crass or rude; it’s just simply the truth. If we understand our true form and anatomical construct, then we would seek and find God. And the blessedness of wisdom in a man is when he comes to this realization early in his life.

And this is not a divine threat “Oh, if you don’t seek God, you will fail.” Taking a fish out of water and knowing it would die is not a curse; it’s an implication of betrayal of form and function. A fish doesn’t live its best life outside of the water ecosystem. Of course, there is that conversation of whether the water is clean or dirty, but that’s another slant of the conversation. There is no reason the fish can give, there’s nothing the fish is looking for that makes him go out of that water to find it. In his search for something, the moment that answer becomes “you need to step out of the water to find it,” a wise fish understands that the aim of that pursuit is an implicit self-sabotage or annihilation.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and every other thing will be added to you. Man, in the truest form of how he was designed and created, was not designed to chase after additions; additions are added in response to a properly coordinated response to his design and form.

The primary relationship of every man is his relationship with God. All other relationships must be contextually situated in the light of that primary relationship.

Then the question pops up: is God wicked in making us with such a complex design, so complex, so specific that nothing else truly satisfies but Him?

Another may think this is frustrating because you think you don’t know the pathway to connecting with God, and you may feel damned to emptiness. It’s wicked when the spare part that fixes you and makes you whole is so bespoke and scarce. But God can be found, and He makes Himself easily and readily available to those who seek Him. He can be found by you! He wants to relate to you. Right where you are, you can shut your eyes and just express your utmost dependence on and desire for Him.

I think it’s the biggest statement of love that we have such an exclusive relationship with the Maker of the universe. That nothing else fits and satisfies us but God.

Have a productive week ahead

For His glory and His renown.

Olayinka Adebayo

@layinkadebayo

Push Buttons is a weekly devotional of The Powerpoint Tribe.