Are you content with everything as it is, or are you like the Rolling Stones that can find no Satisfaction?

 

Many people have told me how miserable they were before when they felt an emptiness they could not figure out. There was nothing wrong with them: no sickness, no death, no problems of any kind, they had no lack of anything good, on the contrary, they were healthy and prosperous people, YET they lacked something they could not understand; felt a worthlessness they could not control.  

I also felt like that once. Everything good that I ever desired for did not feel me up like I                                  thought it would. Was it that I was wrong in my good desires? What was I seeking for?  I was healthy, I had love, means of good living, traumatic living or any kind of distress had not touched me so far —I got that later on when my life turned completely around.— I was apparently fine, but there was something that didn’t let me rest; that did not make me feel complete. I had every thing to be pleased, and I did not owe anything to anybody, yet . . . that feeling of fright, like when you are going someplace and you feel something is missing from your luggage, but you don’t know what it is. And you go over everything you did to pack and still can not think of something important you have forgotten like, for instance, an important medicine you must have on an emergency and no pharmacy will dispense without the approval of your doctor who won’t be around. Or the feeling of not belonging that you get when you go to another city and can not find a place to stay and all the hotels show a No Vacancy sign.

All those feelings of not being able to solve a simple need due to facts you have no control over are what make you miserable and make you feel afraid, not satisfied, empty, and many more negative feelings that can lead to a disastrous living. And can you call that a living? Why should you be tormented with things you can not control? I learned that the hard way, and when I went through a “storm” in my life that left me upside down the first thing I did was to cry out to my Creator to give me everything He promises in the Scriptures He would to all who ask;

-“Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things you do not know.” (Jeremiah 33.3)

-The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him. (Psalm 34.7)

-I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41.10)

-He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.”

 (Hebrews 13.5 b)

-The Lord is good to those who wait for Him. (Lamentations 3.25)

How great when we take possession of these promises. There are hundreds of them in His Word that we can hold on to on bad times, but there is a particular one that when God grants it will do away with all fear, emptiness, or dissatisfaction, no matter how bad the situation might be around you. It was not only promised to the disciples, but to us too:

“It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you                       and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth.” (Acts 1.7-8)

And hasn’t it been true? How powerful we can be if we embrace this one. Let the Holy Spirit dwell in you and you’ll say like the author of Hebrews:

“The Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid, what will man do to me?” (Hebrews 13.6)