Finding True Satisfaction in God’s Presence
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"Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 63: my soul will be satisfied in the Lord as with fat and rich food. Psalm 65: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the Holiness of your temple." [00:01:59]
"God created human beings as desire factories. Everybody has desires, longings, yearnings, wantings. God made us that way, and our problem as Sinners is not that our desires are too strong but that they are directed toward the wrong things. That's the essence of sin, that's the essence of evil." [00:04:10]
"Jeremiah 2:13 my people have committed two great evils: they have forsaken me the Fountain of Living Waters, number two they have hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. That's evil. Evil is to turn away from being satisfied with God as your fountain." [00:04:37]
"All our desires are designed by God to be god-word desires, to move toward the Fountain of Living Water. Even when we desire Earthly things like food or friendship or praise or beauty, all these things are tastes of God's goodness and pointers to God as the final satisfaction." [00:05:05]
"The first thing I would say about the meaning of satisfaction in God is that it refers to the experience of having our desire, longing, yearning, wanting filled, and filled means not too little and not too much. Satisfaction in God is the experience where God is enjoyed as the perfect fullness." [00:05:32]
"There are no desires which in the end God will not purify and satisfy with himself. Even sinful desires have some Vestige of legitimacy. God will rescue that fragment of legitimacy and cleanse it of all that is destructive and fill it up in the age to come." [00:06:21]
"When this sinful age is over and the kingdom has fully and manifestly come, there will be no unmet longings, no unfulfilled desires, no dissatisfaction. There are many Mysteries about what our experience will be like when we are totally perfected in the age to come." [00:06:56]
"To say Jesus is all satisfying does not mean that when he becomes our satisfaction, our Desiring ceases. That would be a mistake to say that our Desiring ceases. Jesus says in John 6:35, I am the bread of life whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst." [00:07:28]
"Our experience of the satisfaction of Christ will always be imperfect, fragmentary, ever-changing, renewable, greater and lesser. Christ remains who he is, right? He doesn't change, he remains who he is all satisfying, and our new birth with new spiritual taste buds that know he is the all-satisfying one remains." [00:08:51]
"The reality of love for other people, and especially compassion for those who suffer, demands that our satisfaction in this age of pain and sorrow be a dissatisfied satisfaction. The Weeping of compassion is the Weeping of joy, or you could say the Weeping of satisfaction impeded, hindered in the extension of itself to another." [00:10:06]
"When God grants me to know him as satisfying to my soul's deepest needs, and then I look on a suffering person, my god-given satisfaction at that moment has in it the impulse to expand and include the other person in it. I want them in it, I want them to share it." [00:11:04]
"Satisfaction in God is Not indifferent to those who don't share it. If we could, we would fold them into our satisfaction in God, but if we are hindered from that, it is our very Joy, our very satisfaction impeded in the extension of itself that Grieves. It is a peculiarly Christian form of dissatisfied satisfaction." [00:11:28]
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"God created human beings as desire factories. Everybody has desires, longings, yearnings, wantings. God made us that way, and our problem as Sinners is not that our desires are too strong but that they are directed toward the wrong things. That's the essence of sin, that's the essence of evil." [00:04:10]
"Jeremiah 2:13 my people have committed two great evils: they have forsaken me the Fountain of Living Waters, number two they have hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. That's evil. Evil is to turn away from being satisfied with God as your fountain." [00:04:37]
"All our desires are designed by God to be god-word desires, to move toward the Fountain of Living Water. Even when we desire Earthly things like food or friendship or praise or beauty, all these things are tastes of God's goodness and pointers to God as the final satisfaction." [00:05:05]
"The first thing I would say about the meaning of satisfaction in God is that it refers to the experience of having our desire, longing, yearning, wanting filled, and filled means not too little and not too much. Satisfaction in God is the experience where God is enjoyed as the perfect fullness." [00:05:32]
"There are no desires which in the end God will not purify and satisfy with himself. Even sinful desires have some Vestige of legitimacy. God will rescue that fragment of legitimacy and cleanse it of all that is destructive and fill it up in the age to come." [00:06:21]
"When this sinful age is over and the kingdom has fully and manifestly come, there will be no unmet longings, no unfulfilled desires, no dissatisfaction. There are many Mysteries about what our experience will be like when we are totally perfected in the age to come." [00:06:56]
"To say Jesus is all satisfying does not mean that when he becomes our satisfaction, our Desiring ceases. That would be a mistake to say that our Desiring ceases. Jesus says in John 6:35, I am the bread of life whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst." [00:07:28]
"Our experience of the satisfaction of Christ will always be imperfect, fragmentary, ever-changing, renewable, greater and lesser. Christ remains who he is, right? He doesn't change, he remains who he is all satisfying, and our new birth with new spiritual taste buds that know he is the all-satisfying one remains." [00:08:51]
"The reality of love for other people, and especially compassion for those who suffer, demands that our satisfaction in this age of pain and sorrow be a dissatisfied satisfaction. The Weeping of compassion is the Weeping of joy, or you could say the Weeping of satisfaction impeded, hindered in the extension of itself to another." [00:10:06]
"When God grants me to know him as satisfying to my soul's deepest needs, and then I look on a suffering person, my god-given satisfaction at that moment has in it the impulse to expand and include the other person in it. I want them in it, I want them to share it." [00:11:04]
"Satisfaction in God is Not indifferent to those who don't share it. If we could, we would fold them into our satisfaction in God, but if we are hindered from that, it is our very Joy, our very satisfaction impeded in the extension of itself that Grieves. It is a peculiarly Christian form of dissatisfied satisfaction." [00:11:28]
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