The Powerball Lottery is up to $500,000,000! That's half a billion
dollars!!! What would you do with that kind of money? Would it be enough
to buy happiness? Would it be enough to bring you satisfaction?
Lewis Martinee wrote a song that was popularized by the Rolling Stones, that put it like this:
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
King Solomon wrote an entire book of the Bible, the book of Ecclesiastes, that same thing over and over again throughout the book. Even King Solomon couldn't get no satisfaction, but it wasn't for the lack of trying.
Why is it that the thirst for money and wealth is never satisfied? Why is it that the thirst for power is never satisfied? The things of this world can never satisfy what our souls long for.
Jesus said:
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." Matthew 5:6
Jesus answered and said to her (the woman at the well), "Everyone who
drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water
that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give
him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
John 4:13–14
We are designed for greater things than what we settle for. We settle for stuff when we could have Christ. We settle for the things that feed our lust for power and glory that will last but for a moment then vanishes forever. We are designed for eternity and we settle for that which is temporal.
There is great satisfaction and contentment in Christ. Don't settle for anything less than Jesus. Everything else will burn up and be gone in a moment.
