To long only for God and no one else is not a rejection of human relationships, but a reordering of desire. It recognizes that every created good—people, achievements, comforts—cannot bear the weight of our deepest hunger. When we expect them to, they either disappoint us or we cling to them in ways that distort love. The claim that our good is only to be found in Jesus crucified goes even further: it says that true goodness is revealed not in power, success, or self-fulfillment, but in self-giving love, suffering embraced for the sake of others, and obedience to the Father.
Jesus crucified exposes the illusion that we can save ourselves or secure lasting happiness on our own terms. At the cross, God meets us at our weakest point—sin, failure, pain, death—and transforms it from the inside. Longing for God alone, then, is not emotional detachment but radical trust: trusting that even when life passes through loss and contradiction, God is still our good. The cross teaches us that love is proven not by what it takes, but by what it gives, and that our deepest fulfillment comes when our lives are shaped by that same pattern.
In this light, longing only for God frees us rather than impoverishes us. We are no longer desperate for others to complete us or terrified of losing what cannot last. Grounded in Christ crucified, we can love people genuinely—without idolizing them—because our ultimate good is already secure in God.