Satisfaction

sat-is-fac-tion (săt′ĭs-făk′shən)noun.

a. The fulfillment or gratification of a desire, need, or appetite.
b. happiness with one's situation in life
c. the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation

The Rolling Stones once sang a song that I’m sure all of you have heard.

I can’t get no satisfaction. ‘Cause I try and I try and I try I can’t get no, I can’t get no...

I’ve definitely been here. Maybe you have too. I try and I try and I try and I think I’ve done the right thing and lived things out correctly and still no satisfaction. I daily hear people talking about their wanderlust, their hunger, their plans for achieving satisfaction in their lives, their need for more. I rarely meet those people who find the fulfillment where they are looking.

“I’ve always wanted to see the world, been a few places but I’d still like to see China, London, Colorado... (etc.) ”
“I want great success, just one more class, degree, promotion, relocation....”
“I found the one I love… now if (s)he could just…”

We are all born with passions, hungers, the need for more than face value in life. It’s a wonderful and unique part of our makeup. I love seeing people run after their dreams and doing what they love and doing really well, but even when you see someone totally in their element (or if you’ve been there) there is always this pang of wanting more, the hunger is still there.

We have so much, great schooling, families, jobs, stamps on our passports, opportunities for scholarships and internships and relationships but without Jesus it’s like trying to fill a bucket with water without one really important thing…the bucket.

Jesus is the container. He’s the handle. He’s the well filled with water. We go and receive, but sometimes don’t realize all he’s offering: a bucket to be filled to overflowing with gifts, with love, with satisfaction. Without a bucket, going to the well for a drink seems rather pointless, doesn’t it? We are still searching, still wanting, still thirsty. If we aren’t seeking Him first and giving Him the glory through our life journeys, big and small, they will never satisfy us. For the satisfaction comes not from what you’re doing, but who it’s for. The only real satisfaction I’ve ever seen is by those living their lives not for the journeys or next steps, but for the source, Jesus. And He will continue filing and fueling those passions until you are overflowing.

“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’” John 4:13-14

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Oh and if you like music, this song is a really beautiful picture of Jesus calling us to Him to drink and be filled and satisfied. Vocal Few, The Fountain.