WHAT WILL SATISFY

I received a message from an old friend. She's asking for prayers, she needs financial breakthrough. I feel her, her pain and anguish. I remember a few years back, I was in her same shoes. I was 19 years old, my family was in debt, I stopped going to school and I had two full-time jobs plus part time on weekends. Fast forward to today, our family has gone a long way from that "desert" experience. My sister and I finished college, passed the board exam, and by God's grace, we have all we need as a family, even more than enough. 

That morning I prayed to the Lord, to bless my life, my career, family, etc.. I was paused by this thought: If we are more than okay now, then why do I still find myself praying for more? and then I was confronted by a much deeper question:

"what is it that will really satisfy?" 

I pondered and realized this, No matter how much we are given, there will still and always be a 'need' that we will demand to be filled with more. And this is my conclusion: Our career goals, dreams, fame, our materialistic generation has shaped us to always want for more. But if we look at the things of this world as our measure of satisfaction, surely it will never be enough. Everything in this world is just too temporary to be sought after. 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that we shouldn't ask things from our heavenly Father. In fact, I believe God wants us to ask Him for bigger things and be in faith when we ask. But what I want to magnify is this:

We cannot trust the things of this world to satisfy.

Ravi Zacharias said this in one of his sermons "The saddest moment of a person's life, is when he has achieved everything and yet it left him feeling empty." And don't we see this story from people around us? people who have reached a certain level of success, yet it left them feeling unsatisfied. It could even be your own story. 

I was reminded to run after Jesus. 

"but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”-John 4:14 

If He says He is the living water and whoever runs after Him will never thirst and be satisfied, I'd definitely run after that.  I mean that's a pretty good deal. You see, it's difficult to put temporal things on a pedestal where only Jesus fits. The things that we want to achieve, goals, dreams, more money, they are good. But they are not Jesus, they can't satisfy your soul. These things fade and tarnish in time. But Jesus the perfecter of our faith, is eternal. They say that the only one who can satisfy the human heart, is the one who made it, and that is Jesus.

So run after the Lord, desire the only one who can satisfy your thirsty heart and soul. Because if you chase after the living water, you sure will never be thirsty ever again. 

PRAYER:

Thank you Jesus, for this truth. Only your love can satisfy. I have chased many things but none of them filled me. More than anything else in this world, I pray that I will desire You.  Thank you because everything else falls secondary to what you can give me. May I get to know you more each day Lord. 

In Jesus' name. 

Amen. 

"But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life." - John 14:4

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