Are you satisfied?

We all know about the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. But I want to look at a verse and go a little different direction.

Luke 15:16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. He would of filled his stomach with the pods, but it really wasn’t satisfying. I think many of us feel like we are in that condition. We may feel full but we are not satisfied. We can be full on a lot of different things. We can be full of television; it can be sitcoms, sports or the news. We can be full on entertainment and all kind of activities. We can even be full on church life and still not satisfied.

Amos 4:8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, But they were not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD. It is only the Lord who can fill us and satisfy us. Are you willing to do what it takes to change the situation if you are not satisfied? When Jesus gives you something it satisfies. His desire is to fill you with the Holy Spirit. We are told to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Eph.5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.

Jesus said this about the Holy Spirit:
John 7:37-38 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

Paul and Barnabas got ran out of town in Acts 13. But they didn’t get full of anger and bitterness. They didn’t fill up on the things of the world. Instead it says in.

Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

We have to fill ourselves on the things that satisfy. The Word of God, the Holy Spirit and God’s presence. As David said in Psalm 103:5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. God brings satisfaction he fills us up and renews us for another day.