Satisfy Me, Oh Lord
Satisfy Me, Oh Lord
Satisfy: meet the expectations, needs or desires of someone; gratify, fulfill
I’ve returned home to Frisco, after a packed-full week in Tulsa, and before that, many trips there and back to get Mom’s estate sale all ready to go and completed. Our customer, Mom, was completely SATISFIED with the sale that brought in wonderful opportunities to bless a lot of folks with her lifetime of treasures and with the proceeds that came from the sales that will definitely help with her care and budget. Now, her grandson and family can close on the home, get the house ready to move in to make new memories in that wonderful home. All around satisfaction!
As customers shopping and buying in the marketplace, we shop until we drop and we get home and find that important item we purchased to be defective. We have to return to the store and we get less than great customer service. We wait and wait for a service technician to come and repair something in our home, and when they get there, they don’t have the part or don’t know how to repair it. We just want to be SATISFIED.
We drink a protein shake as a meal to help with weight loss but within minutes, we’ll say “That meal sure didn’t SATISFY me!”
As employers who are responsible for the products or services they represent, they want and must have respectful, efficient, and trustworthy employees. They want to be SATISFIED.
Let’s be real — from the Moms whose day-to-day activities are mind-boggling — feeding kids, running errands, wiping faces and bottoms, checking homework, driving carpool, scrubbing toilets — to the Dads that work from sun-up to sun-down on a J.O.B. to make ends meet for their growing family — they want to be SATISFIED with their accomplishments.
In the midst of all of that — we ALL want and need the Lord to SATISFY us, feed us and make us full before life empties us.
The Psalmist David wrote “Relent, LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. SATISFY us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.” Psalm 90:13-14. That’s a paraphrase of Moses’ words when he was pleading with the Lord for relief from those demanding, whiny, difficult people.
Moses gives us valuable insight for how to pray those desperate prayers: “Satisfy us in the morning.” He knew about the Lord’s daily satisfaction. Each morning, the Israelites would gather enough manna for the day. They were fed, filled and satisfied by the Lord’s supernatural provision of food in their desert wanderings.
Moses knew the Word of the Lord would give him hope for the day’s struggles with those complaining people. God’s Word would give him patience as he waited. God’s Word would turn his eyes from his day’s circumstances and fix them instead on the character of his Lord.
God’s Word is the answer for our SATISFACTION, too. It is powerful – so powerful, in fact — just reading a small portion of the Bible every day will be like the Israelites receiving the Lord’s satisfying care every day, and that’s what we need, too. We don’t have to read chapters and chapters to sustain us for the week. We just need our daily portion. And just like the Lord was faithful to the Israelites, He is faithful today to all who turn to Him.
Oh Lord, we feel like we are running on empty. We need to be filled, but sometimes we try to fill ourselves with rest, television, social media or food. Nothing fills and prepares us for today’s demands like Your Word. Help us feast daily on Your Word so that we are SATISFIED. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.