In Only You May My Soul Be SATISFIED
Satisfaction: fulfillment, gratification, contentment, comfort
Remember that old Rolling Stones song: “I can’t get no satisfaction”? What is it that causes us to be completely satisfied? A great meal, a good night’s sleep, a day’s good wages for a day’s good work, receiving a pat on the back for a job well done, having a spouse that meets all our needs, having a family, a college education?
My post today is about how to be satisfied, really satisfied – SATISFACTION guaranteed. People all over this world are looking for the pot at the end of the rainbow or winning the lottery or getting that “dream” job and then they’ll KNOW, they’ll be satisfied.
The Psalmist wrote: “O SATISFY us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.” (Psalm 90:14)
Every good gift that God gives can only be truly and ultimately enjoyed if we start by allowing Him to SATISFY us. Riches, wealth, and honor don’t automatically bring SATISFACTION or contentment. In fact, sometimes they can bring unhappiness, and grief. A perfect example of this was Howard Hughes, who at age 45, was one of the wealthiest men in America. He dated actresses, piloted test aircraft, and worked on top-secret CIA contracts. He owned a string of hotels around the world, and even TWA airlines to carry him on global outings. Twenty years later, at age 65, Howard Hughes still had plenty of money—$2.3 billion to be exact. But the world’s richest man had become one of its most pathetic. He lived in small dark rooms atop his hotels, without sun and without joy. He had a scraggly waist-length beard, his hair fell down his back, and his fingernails were two inches long. His once powerful 6’4” frame had shrunk to about 100 pounds. Life held no meaning for him. Finally, wasting away and hooked on drugs, he died at age 67.
The lesson of Howard Hughes is this: “When God is left out of the equation, all that this world has to offer can be incredibly empty and unsatisfying.
Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be SATISFIED.” That is 100 percent guaranteed SATISFACTION. No matter what we face – sickness or health; riches or poverty; a multitude of friends or few friends; single or married; children or childless – the promise of “they shall be filled (SATISFIED) is true, because God fills. “Filled” is a verb in the past tense which is not something that can be achieved, but rather it is something to be received. Christ alone gives genuine SATISFACTION.
Satan will try to deceive us into believing we make our own satisfaction. The world will try to persuade us that they have found true satisfaction. Even religion will try to show us how to achieve a divine satisfaction. And our brain will try to convince us it can be done! But, God, alone, can fill us. He alone has the power to bring genuine satisfaction!
Have you ever seen a truly satisfied person? One who is genuinely content in his lot in life? Jesus describes that kind of person—he is one who “hungers and thirsts after righteousness, for he shall be filled (literally: “continually satisfied”). I pray that your SATISFACTION includes a joy-filled life, family, a great job, friends, things that bring you pleasure, but more than all the intangibles and tangibles, I pray your greatest SATISFACTION comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ and when He is the SATISFIER, everything else in your life will be SATISFIED.
Enjoy this beautiful song, SATISFIED, that describes true SATISFACTION in God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfvFRFLD1RE