Good Morning Friends,
“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. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your
labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and
your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear
me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my
faithful love promised to David.” (Isaiah 55:1-3)
There are so many places to which people turn
for satisfaction.
Many give themselves fully to their careers,
believing that if they just work hard enough, get the right breaks, and are
successful enough their work will fill the empty place in their lives.
Others give themselves to pleasure and seek
it wherever and however they think they can find it. Sex, food, drink, drugs,
you name it, if they think it will bring pleasure they’ll try it. Surely, somewhere,
sometime they’ll find something that will satisfy, and last.
The accumulation of wealth is a favorite
pursuit of Americans. It’s the American dream and when we look at people like
Bill Gates and their marvelous possessions and seeming freedom, we think if we
can just get enough money we’ll be satisfied, too. If we only knew the real
emptiness in the hearts of many wealthy people.
Good causes. Family. Church activity. Art.
Music. The list of places people look for satisfaction seems endless. I all of
them, the end is the same. The emptiness is still there. There is no
satisfaction in any of these pursuits.
“Why spend money on what is not bread?”
That’s Isaiah’s question. Why seek satisfaction where it cannot be found? Instead,
look in the one place where it can be found. “Come to Me,” God says, “that your
soul may live.”
In God, and in God alone, there is real,
lasting satisfaction! But, then, we already know that, don’t we?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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