Are You Satisfied?

What do you look to for satisfaction?

What do you spend your time thinking about, wanting, or striving after?

Is it money?

Relationships?

Food?

Shopping?

Or is it something else?

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all live our lives fully satisfied? Never wanting? Never feeling like we don’t have enough? Never feeling like we don’t do enough? Never feeling like we aren’t enough?

The song “These Hands” by Tenth Avenue North, asks the question:

Why are you still searching as if I’m not enough?

And isn’t that what we so often do? Look for our satisfaction in a variety of things other than God?

Psalms 90:14 reminds us that God is enough

“Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”

It can be easy to get distracted or caught up in wanting things that don’t matter. It can be easy to forget to look to God for contentment and fulfillment. But that verse in Psalms reminds us that His love can truly satisfy. Not for just a weekend or once a year. It can satisfy us all our days.

The verse doesn’t say we’ll never encounter tough times, though. It doesn’t say everything will always be “peachy”. But the gladness and rejoicing it talks about is a deep-down gladness that comes from having God in your life. And His “steadfast love” really does satisfy.

God knows our longings. He yearns to fill the holes in our lives. So if you’re in a place right now where you’ve been forgetting to look to God for your satisfaction, remember that He’s right there by your side. As the song “These Hands” says in a later verse;

I’ll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don’t fight
These hands that are holding you

So let Him hold you.

Let Him fill you up.

Let Him satisfy.