Through out the day I got myself special little drinks, but what would normally be very satisfying fell flat. There was no sustenance and as much as they had lovely flavor and cool refreshment, they could not quench my need. I almost didn't want to drink them.
It didn't matter how much I drank, I still felt empty. My mind started thinking about verses about being satisfied
"Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled"
I've had to work a lot on trying to be content. But nature, I'm restless. There is so much need in the world. So much I can and should do.
Like drinking on an empty stomach, I can work and do and achieve and still feel unsatisfied. I want to make the world a better place. The world is just so damn big and I am just so limited.
But these two verses offer two very beautiful promises.
1. In faith, we can be quenched. We can find water that satisfies.
2. We are blessed when we hunger for a just and equitable world, at the banquet we shall be filled.
During my days of fasting, I think about my dinner feast and there is that hope of delicious favorite foods that helps me keep pushing through.
These is a day coming where we will be satisfied. When the world will be healed and whole, just and equitable. It will be a feast for the soul that will satisfy. True contentment like post- Thanksgiving pie.
I look forward to day. Easter is around the corner.
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