Being Satisfied

People are looking for something, they have a need, a hunger, a thirst which they can’t quite meet, it is there in every one of us.

 we can look out at the world around us and you can see this need being manifested in the lives of those around us. 

They may not even know that it is there or at least they can’t put it into words but it is there in all of us….It needs to be scarified.

We see those around us looking for an answer to this hunger and thirst. This hunger and thirst , this  need and what to be satisfied  in life,  but so often this eludes them.

Yet it is God himself which has, in his design and purpose, placed this hunger and thirst, this need,  in us all.

“I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God”.Eccl: 3:10-13

An Invitation

God has extended and invitation to all who will freely receive it to have this need satisfied in the only way that truly can be. The Prophet Isaiah speaks of this invitation to all

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost

 .”Isa: 55:1

The Lord God  has offered this so freely, yet so many attempt to secure it through the riches and resources of their own efforts…they try to accomplish this satisfaction , this filling that hunger and thirst within themselves.

Can Not be Bought

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? (2)

Those things that we attempt to purchase through our efforts will not, in the end, satisfy us.

God tells us what the answer is, and he invites to come to his table so to speak, that place of fellowship of belonging,that place where life is sustained. Here is the best, the greatest  is laid before us all and it will exceed any of our expectations.

“Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me;

Listen, that you may live”. (3)

As the Palmist wrote, “taste and see that the Lord is good”

What is David’s is Our’s

“I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.”(4)

The very covenant that God made David he makes with us, we share in it. Yet we are not to keep this to our selves. The message about Jesus is to be given to any and to all through our living proclamation of the Gospel.We all have a part in the participation of this invitation to the world around us.

Where They Are Wanted

Isaiah writes about the invitation to come to the Lord’s Table to those around us , this place in Jesus where they can find the fulfillment that all humanity has sought for. This place of being loved wanted and included by the Great God all through his Son Jesus.

“Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you,

because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.” (5)

The splendor that the Prophet refers to is the Lord Jesus Christ living in and through us, which is we participating in who he is, and the world around us sees it.

Through our lives we can encourage other to come and find that fulfillment that brings with it a transformation of our lives. A renewing of our souls.

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near". 

In Christ and through the Holy Spirit he is near to us all, and offers us to experience the grace which is freely given to all.

”Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.” (7)

 Exceeds Any and All Expectations 

 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts”. (8-9)

Paul wrote “who can know the mind of God”

What God, through Jesus,  is including and inviting us all to is beyond anything that we can grasp. It exceeds anything that we can imagine. It is higher greater and more fulfilling then any of the things of this life.

 

The Holy Spirit

“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,” (10)

“so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it”. (11)

When we hear the Gospel about  Jesus, that he ,as the living Word of God , came and  when we believe we then experience this  salvation  , God through the Holy Spirit dwells with us and refreshes our very souls and fills us with belonging that all seek and  satisfies us and completes us  makes us whole in Jesus.

We personally enter what the Apostle Peter in Acts called the “times of Refreshing”

Paul again wrote to the Church at Colossi, “in him you are perfect”, the Greek word means complete, or whole.

A Joy Fills Us

“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown,  for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”(12-13)

When we embrace all that the Lord has invited us to, we will experience a satisfaction like no other. We will rejoice and praise him. We will find all that we ever hungered or thirsted for satisfied in Jesus.  It will fills us now and forever more 

When we , or any one accepts the invitation and come to the Lord's table we can be forever assured that we will never leave unsatisfied...  Amen

Rev.Todd Crouch, Pastor 

The Fountain of Life Church a Congregation of Grace Communion
2101 Old National Pike.

Washington, Pennsylvania.   www.gcfountainoflife.org

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