Nov. 12
SANCTIFIED SOULS ARE SATISFIED
"My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord"
Jer. 31:14
Note the "my" which comes twice: "My people shall be satisfied with
my goodness."
The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as
God's own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with Him.
They call Him their God, and He calls them His people; He is satisfied
to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with Him for their
portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God's Israel
and Israel's God.
These people are satisfied. This is a grand thing. Very few of the
sons of men are ever satisfied, let their lot be what it may; they
have swallowed the horse-leech, and it continually cries, "Give!
Give!" Only sanctified souls are satisfied souls. God Himself must
both convert us and content us.
It is no wonder that the Lord's people should be satisfied with the
goodness of their Lord. Here is goodness without mixture, bounty
without stint, mercy without chiding, love without change, favor
without reserve. If God's goodness does not satisfy us, what will?
What! Are we still groaning? Surely there is a wrong desire within if
it be one which God's goodness does not satisfy.
Lord, I am satisfied. Blessed be thy name.