Satisfied
Luke 6:21 - Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
For most of us, real hunger is a rare occurrence. With fridges and cabinets overflowing with snack foods, fast-food restaurants on every other corner, and school cafeterias serving meals every school day, we rarely experience the gnawing emptiness of a long unfed stomach. But maybe we can relate to dissatisfaction and sorrow. We fail to make the sports team we worked so hard for. Someone else is selected to play the role in the drama production that we had our heart set on. A friend is drifting away from Christ and we don’t know what to do about it. An accident seriously injures a friend or family member. Yes, there’s much in this world that can leave us wanting something better.
Jesus wants us to know that He has provided us with so much more than this world can offer. He lived a perfect life and died in our place. Because of this, we can raise our sights above the difficulties of this life. He walked in our shoes here so that we would truly know God’s love for us. We have a personal Savior we can share our disappointments with and who understands. He wants to take our sorrows and replace them with joy. Not some shallow happiness that can often depend on events going “our way,” but true joy that comes from knowing we have an eternity without disappointment, sorrow, pain, or death that awaits us, no matter what happens here.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT: How do hardships in this life draw us closer to Jesus? Read 2 Corinthians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 13:12, and Romans 7:21-24; how do these passages put context around how we "hunger" as Christians?
PRAYER SUGGESTIONS: Ask God to strengthen you until your entrance to eternal life. Thank him for his precious promises to feed you now and for eternity, both physically and spiritually.