The Only One That Satisfies

Sometimes I feel a lot like the Woman at the Well. She came to the well probably daily to get water for her and her husband. But on one ordinary day, she met Jesus. In John 4, Jesus asked this special woman for a drink. She responded surprised that Jesus would ask her of such a thing because she was a Samaritan woman. He then explained to her something so profound...

John 4:13-15~

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” This woman came to the well everyday to feel hydrated everyday. Water will only hydrate you for so long. She realized this when Jesus gave her the option of looking to HIM rather than the earthly things to satisfy her. They will only satisfy temporarily... but He satisfies for eternity.

I used to have a lot of issues with finding satisfaction in the wrong things. Before I was a Christian I searched and searched for places and people that I could get happiness and joy and satisfaction from, but, (no surprise), none of those things seemed to ever fully fill me up. Then I met Jesus. Then I met the one who is always there, never changes or turns, the one who SAVES, the one who has become God in the flesh and experienced temptation, the one who has all the power in the world, and the one who answers prayer. And I realized…how could I ever look anywhere else? How could some earthly being or some popularity or lots of money ever complete me the way Jesus did? There is no joy apart from him. There are no actual pleasures that he did not create. There is nothing on this earth compared to what he gives me!

After I was saved, the devil totally used my past against me. He knew that I had a past of searching for my joy in other people and in popularity, so he took that old habit and used it as temptation. And he still continues to do that!

'But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."' 2

Corinthians 12:7-9. But it is verses like these that remind me that God used those things I have looked for in the past to find satisfaction for his glory. They humble me and remind me to fall on my knees at the feet of Jesus and say that I cannot find satisfaction in anything else but him! His grace covers the times where i DID NOT look for satisfaction in him, and he is glorified in that!

But finding satisfaction in Christ alone is easier said than done. It comes with a High View of God--knowing that he is the only one that will be faithful always, powerful always, and always there. It comes with falling down on my knees daily and realizing that there is None but Jesus and that there is nothing I can do and nothing I can find in this earth that will give me the ultimate satisfaction that Jesus alone gives. All the trials and troubles and hardships we all have to come in contact with in this world are NOTHING compared to what Jesus gives us! In HIM I am satisfied.

John 16:33~

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

Psalm 4:7~You have put more joy in my heart

than they have when their grain and wine abound.