"Only You Can Satisfy"

"All of my life I'm searching for what can be only found in You, only You can satisfy." lyrics by Todd Procter. Were their ever-truer words spoken? People find delight and great gain in a great many things only to be crushed under the weight of seeing everything fall apart. It does not mater which way you cut it everything will come to an end and to those who are satisfied by what ever "it" is will be crushed. Heaven and earth will pass away but the Word of the Lord endures forever. If the Word of the Lord Endures forever then He must as well because what is finite cannot produce what is infinite. So where do we arrive then at one place. Heb. 12:3 here we learn the only thing that we ought to focus on, Jesus Christ! Keeping in mind that the author writes that it was for the joy that was set before Christ that He endured. He did not endure do to exceeding joy from the cross but rather the joy came from the knowledge of what was accomplished by the cross. So to we are exhorted in verse 11, "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." This is where joy and satisfaction maybe found not in the trial but in the hope that God is perfecting you through the trial. To this I will cling along with the promise that "I will never be tested beyond what I can bear", that "the Lord works all things together for the good of those who love Him", that "He has a plan to prosper me and not to harm me to give me a hope and a future", that "After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you." and so I say nothing, not a relationship, not a ministry, not a hobby, not a passion, not even a dream can satisfy, each of these will leave you and me broken and hurt only to be found and lifted by the only hand that was never raised against us yet has always held us so that when we fall it is never so far that we cannot stand again. It is true this hand has disciplined us as Hebs. says but not for our harm but for our good thus as Job said, "though HE slay me I will hope in Him." Why? Because it is for my good and I know this full well.