Satisfied. Filled.

December 16

Satisfied. Filled. Most of us who have been blessed to have been born in Twentieth/Twenty-first Century America have never had to contemplate the significance of these two words. We take them for granted because we have never been without the benefit of them.

Oh, yes, we may have had our ups and downs in life, we’ve endured our share of disappointed hopes, but we have never had to grovel in poverty; we have never known stomach-wrenching hunger. When it has come to life’s basic needs, we have been satisfied and filled.

Psalm 107:9 says, “He has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things.” We in the modern West tend to associate that statement with our economic abundance. We claim the prosperity gospel that suggests we should all abound in temporal wealth. Yet, there is a far deeper, more profound essence to these words.

What the Lord God is promising here is that we may enjoy the abundance of satisfaction and be filled to overflowing within our spirit! No matter what our external circumstances may be, we may abound in the fruit of His presence—we may overflow with faith—a faith that assures our complete provision of spirit for time and eternity.