Anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE pancakes and I LOVE some certain frozen treat with a bunch of mix-ins. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I wanted to go try these certain pancakes at a restaurant and I was thinking about this item for weeks. Yes weeks! I made plans to go eat there, I waited, I anticipated. The day came… I ordered the item…. Guess what, it wasn’t all I had dreamed it was. It did not satisfy me, it totally let me down. Now, I am not going to mention the restaurant because my point is not to disparage them or their food. It was fine and tasted good. My point is that I wanted this thing so bad and then when I got it, it was not what I expected. I thought about my life and how many times this happens to me. When I get this, I’ll be happy- get said thing- not happy. When I am done with this, I’ll be happy- said thing ends- not happy. I literally do it every year. When my seasonal job comes I say, “I’ll be happy I will be busy and have something to do”, but when it comes, I am tired and stressed. So, during the job, I’m saying, “When this seasonal job ends, I will be happy, I will have more free time”. Job ends, I am bored! Another example, “If I could just get under 140 pounds, I will be happy, it’ll be the best thing ever”. I accomplish that by starving myself. Guess what, I am not satisfied and I can’t maintain it for one week because I am unhealthy!
Isn’t this what happened to Eve? “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” Gen. 3:6 And we all know what happened next, it was a let-down, epic failure, not what it appeared and did not do what she thought it would.
We are all searching for satisfaction because God created us just this way. He planted eternity in the human heart. This is from the Amplified Bible:
He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God] Ecc. 3:11 AMP
Did you get that? Nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God. It’s right there in the scripture. Yet, here we are buying, searching, spinning our wheels to frantically find that thing that will finally do it.
Lord, forgive me for forgetting that only You will ever satisfy me. Teach me how to be satisfied in You and Your word. Open my eyes and make me wise to see the lies that things under this sun will satisfy this longing I have. Your Word says that my soul can be satisfied as with fat and rich food and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips. Remind me by Your Spirit not to spend my money on that which is not bread and my labor on that which does not satisfy. If I listen to you, I will eat what is good and I will delight in the richest of fair. You are never a let-down, You are never less than expected, You are more. Your word says that things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not entered the heart of man, all that You have prepared for those who love you. To You, the One who is able to do immeasurably more that all I ask or imagine, I pray in Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen. (Psalm 63:5, Isaiah 55:2, Ephesians 3:20)