WHERE IS SATISFACTION FOUND?

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In Christ, Mark

The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.

Proverbs 27:20

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

I teach an adult Sunday School class at my home church, Bayside Baptist Church, in Virginia Beach, Virginia (if you ever get in the neighborhood, would love to have you join us for worship and bible study). I’ve been teaching for twenty years now and love it, whether through my class or my daily writings here at The Christian Walk.

Bible teaching brings me great satisfaction, more than any other form of teaching I do, mostly because I know the knowledge I am passing onto others isn’t temporary but eternal. This goes for any other work that I get the privilege to do in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and there is plenty of it. For as I always tell people, when you choose to go to work for Jesus, you are always full time employed with lots of overtime. If you don’t believe it, go back and look at the life of His original disciples.

Indeed, we should be no less busy than the first people called by Jesus to serve Him and others. We should want to be involved, obedient to our Savior’s calling, will, and way. As a Christian, there is no other life than living like Jesus, the One who told us that He is the Way and the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). And when we commit ourselves to Him as fully as He committed Himself to us, we find ourselves blessed in so many ways, maybe none more so than feeling satisfied and fulfilled as we experience a warm, fuzzy feeling that I believe is the Lord telling us, “Well done, good and faithful servant. With you I am well pleased.”

Yes, I think I can say with complete confidence that satisfaction in life - authentic satisfaction in life - only comes when we live as Jesus did, following the guidance of His Holy Spirit. The world simply cannot offer us this.

I say this because of today’s proverb from Solomon. It validates where satisfaction can be found by telling us where it can’t. Look at these words:

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes. Proverbs 27:20

 

Live for the world and you are living in a place where sin and wickedness abide. This is because the world is the realm of the evil one, Satan, the one who is always seeking to operate counter to what Jesus is trying to do. God’s word from 2 Corinthians tells us this:

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (GNT)

Satan would like nothing more than to keep all of God’s people in the dark and away from the light of Jesus who is always shining it on the path of righteousness, the narrow path that leads them to eternal life (Matthew 7:13-14). Satan’s path is wide and only leads to death and destruction who is never satisfied, possessing an insatiable hunger to rob salvation away from anyone Satan gets in his grip. Those who fall into his ways fall into sin and sin draws them further and further into darkness, ever providing distance from Jesus and His light. And sin’s allure and wicked offerings continue to perpetually tempt a person, reaching into the depths of their being and drawing them in until they, like the death and destruction they are heading toward, are never satisfied. There is always more sin to enter into. More false pleasure to enjoy. Greater depths of wickedness to visit and experience.

Friends, the Lord is speaking to our hearts loudly this day, reminding us that there are only two ways we can live but only one brings us true satisfaction.

One way, living under the alluring nature of sin and under the control and direction of Satan, will never satisfy us. The other, living a life centered on the Lord Jesus Christ and the eternal treasures of heaven He brings through our service unto Him and others, will never cease to satisfy us.

In the end translation, there really is only one place to find satisfaction and it’s in Jesus. I pray you will seek it today and always.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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