What Satisfies? – Part II
If you haven’t read part one yet of What Satisfies, please take the time to read it first. You can simply click here to read it.
It really pains my heart to see the quality of life children have to experience from the sins of their parents seeking to satisfy their own wants. We may try to justify our situation (which is justifying our sin), but no child wants to be raised without a mother or without a father. How many single parents have to work two or three jobs to support their children yet sacrificing time that should be spent with their children? God did not intend for us to do life on our own. If it was meant to do on our own, only Adam or only Eve would have been created. Yet, we tell ourselves, this is what God has handed to me or this is where God has placed me. It seems as if we are blaming God. Honestly, this is where we have placed ourselves and this is what we have handed to ourselves. However, God is faithful. He is our Father who sees all and knows all and still loves us no matter what mistakes we have made in life. It first comes with taking responsibility. Forgiveness cannot be given until forgiveness is asked. We cannot be healed unless we go to the Great Physician.
Why do we have such a huge hole in our hearts in constant need of being satisfied? Well, God placed that whole in our hearts. It’s called free-will. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the forbidden tree, they died and they were separated from God. They lost His Holy Spirit which sustained them. There free-will decision to sin against God cost them (and us) everything. People may say they caused us to suffer and to have pain (which is true), but more than anything, they caused us to be dead to God. We lost the Holy Spirit.
So we still haven’t answered the question of what satisfies. The answer is very simple and has been in front of our faces for about two thousand years, yet very few of us ever find the answer. JESUS CHRIST SATISFIES. They only thing that could satisfy us is what we once lost, that is the Holy Spirit. Why do we try to fulfill ourselves with things that do not last? Just as we are, they are here one day and gone the next.
So if satisfaction is guaranteed through the Lord Jesus Christ, why do so many people reject Him? My beloved, we are a stiff-necked people, full of pride and self-centeredness. Our egos do not allow us to humble ourselves.
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble – 1 Peter 5:5
We need to ask ourselves: is the search really worth it? How much more pain and suffering must we endure? Is our pride really worth our souls? One of the most well known proverbs read “there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12
Everyone knows about that void in their heart, but so few of us know how to fill it. As we said earlier, when searching for satisfaction, we will always want more. When we come to our senses and realize that Jesus Christ is the one and only source of satisfaction, we want more of Jesus. Unlike all things of this world, Jesus never ends. In Tenth Avenue North’s song “Lovesick,” they say “You’re all I need but You never seem to be enough.” That is such a true statement. We can never have enough of Jesus in our lives. We will continue to search and seek Him more and more and God is faithful enough to give us more of Jesus daily. He is our daily bread.
True love satisfies. True love is Jesus Christ. True love is nails in both hands and feel, wearing a thorn crown for our sins, our iniquities, our transgressions against God screaming out “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” as we crucified Him on a cross that was meant for us. True love rose from the dead to give us life. Once true love, Jesus Christ, comes into our hearts, we can truly love our husbands and wives, our children, our family, and the life that God has called us to live in the name of Jesus Christ. It all starts with Jesus.
How do we have Jesus fill that void? We ask it to be done. We pray to God and ask Him to fill us with the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the one and only true love, forgiving us of our sins and removing them as far as the east is from the west, living the life that pleases God. Then and only then can we be truly satisfied.