Are you satisfied? It seems that today satisfaction levels – be it work, finances, relationships, possessions – are overall on the decline. George Horace Lorimer, an American editor in the late 1800s, said “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” Now. I have a problem with this. This puts my satisfaction all on me – and I don’t know about you but that feels like a burden I’m not prepared to carry. I am not reliable enough with my emotions, energy-levels or feelings to take on that sort of responsibility.

Thankfully, I don’t have to be responsible for my satisfaction and neither do you. David wrote, “lift your hands and thank God… for… He satisfies the souls of the thirsty ones and fills the hungry with all that is good.” (Psalm 107:8-9). Isaiah said that God will “satisfy your desire in scorched places…” (Isaiah 58:11) and Paul tells us that he is convinced. Convinced – without a doubt, completely certain – that God will fully satisfy every need we have. How? Through our trying harder, working more diligently, pursuing life assiduously? No… “according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).

This is a staggering measure of giving. The riches of God’s glory knows no lack, and so His ability to supply this to us knows no end. We get blindsided by the message of marketing telling us that what we lack is stuff. We get distracted from our true need by comparison and envy.

Our satisfaction is of the upmost importance to God. It is for the sake of His name that we be fully satisfied in Him, because our satisfaction and God’s glory are the same thing. “He is an infinitely glorious, all-satisfying God, offering us everlasting and supreme joy in himself.” (John Piper) If you’ve been finding yourself a little dissatisfied recently, may I suggest you return to the source of all satisfaction? The unlimited, super-abundant riches found where? In Christ.