My word for 2013 is “quenched” as in satisfied. My heart for this year is to find my satisfaction in Jesus alone. I began the year by reading a fabulous book called The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty? by Mark Hall. I highly recommend it.
This morning, I was reading in the Psalms and paused when I came to Psalm 107:9, which reads:
For He has satisfied the thirsty soul,
And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.
(NASB95)
What a beautiful promise! When my soul thirsts, God Himself will satisfy it. When my soul hungers, God will fill it with what is good.
When we try to feed our souls ourselves, we generally fill it up with empty calories, the junk foods of our culture and our selfish natures. Don’t we? Or is it just me?
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Next I opened Streams in the Desert, and the entry was about an encounter with George Mueller, a 19th-century evangelist. This line of dialogue from Mr. Mueller leaped off the page:
I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years, and there has never been even a single day that I have failed to get an audience with the King.
Oh my. The beauty in that simple statement! The only way I can fail, the only way we can fail, to get an audience with the King of Heaven is to not ask for one.
Have you had an audience with the King today? That is surely where your thirst will be quenched, where your soul we be completely satisfied.
In the grip of His grace,
~robin
