“My people shall be satisfied with My goodness” (Jer. 31:14).
Is God’s goodness enough for you? Does His goodness satisfy you? If not, ask yourself the probing question: “Am I one of God’s people.”
Dissatisfaction battles satisfaction. The sufficiency of God’s goodness for God’s people abides. You are either satisfied with God’s goodness or you are not. God says to His people, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness” (Jer. 31:3). The church of Christ possesses hearts quieted by His everlasting love yet feasting in His lovingkindness. Graced hearts are satisfied hearts.
God’s goodness is so good that His sons and daughters no longer struggle like the twins in Rebekah’s womb (Gen. 25:22). One person is not trying to outdo another or to have more than his neighbor. He is satisfied with all external manifestations of God’s goodness, though many may appear to be afflictions.
Jesus disallowed dissatisfaction in His own life. He accepted His lot in life knowing that His Father’s providential hand was filled with goodness (Mt. 26:39). Though hungry and without position in this world, the life of the Lord Jesus Christ was founded upon every word proceeding out of the mouth of God (Mt. 4:4).
The Christian’s “adequacy is from God” (II Cor. 3:5). The only dissatisfaction saints should experience is with this world. This present darkness, regardless of its attractiveness, is a disappointing disillusionment. All it offers falls short of what it is able to provide. Absent God’s blessing, the most splendid offerings of your world are nothing more that wood, hay and stubble.
When the Holy Spirit transforms a man’s heart, that regenerated heart can no longer be satisfied with this world. The new heart results in a radical change in the man who turns to God from idols because he now desires to serve the living and true God (I Thess. 1:9). He is transformed so exceptionally that his world is no longer his satisfier.
A Christian no longer possesses just a human nature. God says, “He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust” (II Pe. 1:4). The saint’s nature is a divine nature desiring the divine rather than the corrupt, the immortal rather than the mortal, the imperishable rather than the perishable (I Cor. 15:53).
“Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy?” (Isa. 55:2).
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