Day 96 - Satisfaction Found
Scripture focus: 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.
Isaiah 55:1 NIV
Brain cravings are the result of stress-filled living. Stress-filled living is inevitable for people who are stepping into darkness, with no light to guide their way. Brain cravings cry out for satiation - from thirst, hunger, financial insecurity, and the dreaded fear of an insignificant life. This is normal, natural, and totally predictable.
Jesus, however, is in the business of doing a new thing. He realizes that our hungers and thirsts are often misguided attempts to satisfy misguided passions and ambitions. We think we need more of what our mid-brain craves.
What Jesus promises is far more than a scratch to ease our itch.
He wants to provide springs of living waters, food that truly satisfies, and a security that is imperishable.
As Creator, he knows that we were made for a purposeful, passionate life. He appreciates (because he's been there and done that) how the human body seeks satisfaction in what it can see, feel, taste, touch and hear. He understands that none of these things provide sustenance. They're cheap imitations of the real thing - the satisfaction found in the feeding of a soul craving.
"All of us have a deeply rooted longing not only for our lives to be different but to make a difference in the lives of others. We are created with a need to have hope and to give it. When we become jaded, we ignore the voice to catch those who are falling over the edge, but it is still there within us and it haunts us. And even when we know something should be done, we just hope someone will do it. Yes, it is possible to deaden your soul, but not to silence it. The farther we move from God, the more likely we are to actually give up on progress. . .Your soul. . . [is]. . starving for hope - not just to have it, but to give it." Soul Cravings, Erwin McManus, entry 20, Destiny
Recommended reading: Deuteronomy 28 in the morning; Psalm 76 and 77 in the evening
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