Far Too Easily Pleased
August 14, 2008 – 11:52 pmGod gives us many good gifts, but it is easy to treasure gift above Giver.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. - Romans 1:24-25
What is the “truth about God”? That he is good, that he is the ultimate satisfaction, that he is not just the ticket to the show… he is the show!
I noticed a few times today how I keep looking for satisfaction in things other than God - music, blogs, CNN, food, wandering around talking to my family, Olympics, Wikipedia, packing, cleaning, etc. And all of those can be used to glorify and point to God. But God kept pointing out to me the state of my heart: Jesus wasn’t enough for me, so I kept running to other things.
What are you trying to satisfy yourself with right now? Olympics or Jesus?
If all else were to disappear right now and it was just you, your Bible, and Jesus, would that be enough?
Can you say with the Psalmist, “I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight” (Psalm 119:174)?
Praying that Jesus would satisfy our souls,
-Ben
ps. here’s what God drew me to late this evening:
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
- Colossians 1:15-23
