The Satisfying Goodness

Going off to college is a big adjustment in environment compared to being home. One big adjustment is that I now get to eat at a cafe. At first, that was really cool because instead of just having one thing to eat for dinner I now have about five or so choices, but unfortunately the excitement only lasted about two weeks. After two weeks I really lost interest in what they served and so now I never know what I am going to eat for dinner. It usually takes a couple times around the cafe to see something that I will settle with. I can say that no matter what was on the menu for dinner at home I was happy eating it (most of the time), but here I am not satisfied in the same way.

There is a really strong link between my cafe story and our faith journeys with God. What I forget a lot is that God is the only one who can satisfy. He is everything in this world and in the next. So often we find ourselves trying to find the thing that will satisfy us. We may look to money, power, success, sexual impurity, and many other things, but the problem is that these are only things. It doesn't matter if they are tangible or intangible, they are things and never have the capacity to satisfy, actually they end up leaving us more empty than where we started. That usually ends up making us look to the next thing that we hope will satisfy, which I know for me is not usually the Lord.

We need to remember that the Lord is here with us. He is here with us in our brokenness and our despair. He is with us when we know He is the answer and yet we choose to indulge in temptation just to make sure that this sin really isn't the key to our happiness. We need to be reminded today that the Lord satisfies and He is the one that will love you no matter. I think the question that needs to be asked is: If we know this truth, then why don't we save ourselves the brokenness, heartache and despair, and look to Him to take care of us? Do not be like me who wanders around the cafe looking for the dinner that will come close to satisfying, but cast your eyes on the One that is the ultimate perfection of satisfaction.