God-shaped hole
We have an innate need to serve something higher | 100 Days of wonder #7
We humans have an innate need to serve something higher.
Whether you’re secular or you feel you belong to a religion, in all cases, you’re (subconsciously) trying to fill a part of yourself with purpose.
This God-shaped hole, as you might call it, is in everyone.1
Nowadays, in a relatively “Godless” society, at least in the west, we try to fill it by attaching to (political) ideologies. (In the past, it was clearer; you’re part of a religion, and that’s that.)
We like to think we’re “better” than those in the past and think we don’t need God anymore. But what actually happens is that we’re totally oblivious to the “religions” we now adhere to. The Left, The Right, Money, Power, Status, Science, Diversity, Technology, Environmentalism, Spirituality, Bitcoin, etc.
We lift up our ideological peers while at the same time demonizing our ideological adversaries. Not unlike going on a (digital) crusade.
But we can look at this situation from a positive perspective. Seeing that we can always find—or rather, make—meaning in almost anything, we might as well try and find out what it is that fills that God-shaped hole within us.
And I’d argue that when you choose to consciously walk that path, you’ll end up, in some way or another, serving others around you by doing something you’re both good at and love doing.
So, what is it that fills your God-shaped hole?
Thanks for reading, and have a good weekend!
Jibran
PS. Tanya,
, and I had some fun joking around with this term of God-shaped hole. 😉 (Almost exactly 1 year ago even!)
If you’re uncomfortable with the word “God,” you’re free to read it as something else, like source, divine, (higher) Self, existence, etc. I’m not talking about a literal man-in-the-sky-from-the-Bible. 😘