It could be said that we face one major problem in life: lack.

That doesn’t mean the only problem we face is a lack of funds or goods. So much that is problematic can be defined in terms of what we don’t seem to have. If we are sick, we lack health. If life is unfair, justice is lacking. Is life lonely? Then we lack companionship.

From a spiritual vantage point, though, these can each be recognized as a seeming absence of something that we can never lack, namely God’s presence in our lives. And every aspect of life that is eminently desirable—health, justice, affection, and so on—is an attribute of God, Spirit. These are timeless spiritual treasures that forever belong to us in our relation to God as His spiritual offspring.