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One Satisfied Soul
One Satisfied Soul
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Luke 6:25a (ESV)
“Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry.
What is the most satisfying food? (3 min)
Screen time - how much do you do, interactive and have them stand. Are you satisfied in this? Not that question, but in the direction showing the belly is never satisfied and the eye is never full. [eccl 6:7 “All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.”] [eccl 1:8 “All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”]
Why does it matter? Is the song of the Bible about man’s satisfaction in and with the glories of God? Can we be satisfied in during this life? Or is satisfaction only for when we die? What does being content and full with God now do for me? What if I do not love God this much, can I, how can I? Is this all really action/work that we do or is it mental and heart work? Do we experience God this way?
You will never delight to be satisfied in God if you do not esteem him as the lone soul-pleaser.
Authors in the Bible predominately uses the concept of satisfaction as it relates to being blessed by God.
I do not mean God’s satisfaction with us, that is present, soteriological and deals with the atonement Christ makes for our justification which is proccured by faith.
the desire to be satisfied by food is a result of the fall. It is corrupted, unregenerate people seek to be satisfied by food as the end.
The Psalmists desire and fulfillment of those desires by God. Our true food, true contentment is in union with Christ. Look to Jesus as the chief satisfying person/object. Jesus as the model for gaining satisfaction, he is always content with being in the presence of God (Ps. 27:4,7-8). Aim with your being to be like Jesus.
Satisfaction comes to the blessed by God
as a gift
and as a reward
Satisfaction, contentment, rest, peace, yet this is not the “easy life”
Satisfied as it relates to food as perishable satisfaction, vanity Eccl, it is foolishness and unbelief. Stop desiring that which leads to death.
desire the things that are above. this is a command, imperative, a duty for your heart, soul, might, for the great end of enjoying God. Satisfaction is a result of experiencing God. We are still in the flesh, so the command to draw near continually, habitually, is so foundational for a Xn.
Jesus the great preacher uses satisfaction in the spiritual, because being full of food and being full spiritually makes sense
Desires are to be set on Jesus
To be satisfied in Him is to cease seeking for happiness elsewhere.
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Vanity
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Pleasure
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you hold my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will receive me to glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet. Whoever hath sipped this wine will thirst for more, for although Christ doth satisfy, yet it is such a satisfaction, that the appetite is not cloyed, but whetted. If you know the love of Jesus—as the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so will you pant after deeper draughts of his love. If you do not desire to know him better, then you love him not, for love always cries, “Nearer, nearer.” Absence from Christ is hell; but the presence of Jesus is heaven. Rest not then content without an increasing acquaintance with Jesus. Seek to know more of him
Spurgeon, C. H. 1896. Morning and Evening: Daily Readings. London: Passmore & Alabaster.
The soul is never satisfied with thoughts of Christ’s love to it. “O that it were more, that it were more! that I were as a ‘seal on his heart!’ ” is its language. The soul knows, indeed, on serious thoughts, that the love of Christ is inconceivable, and cannot be increased; but it would fain work up itself to an apprehension of it: and therefore she adds here, “Set me as a seal upon thine arm.” The heart is the fountain, but close and hidden; the arm is manifestation and power.
Owen, John. n.d. The Works of John Owen. Edited by William H. Goold. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. 127
