Nov. 12
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
SANCTIFIED SOULS ARE SATISFIED
"My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord" Jer.
31:14
Note the "my" which comes twice: "My people shall be satisfied with my
goodness."
The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God's
own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with Him. They call
Him their God, and He calls them His people; He is satisfied to take
them for a portion, and they are satisfied with Him for their portion.
There is a mutual communion of delight between God's Israel and
Israel's God.
These people are satisfied. This is a grand thing. Very few of the sons
of men are ever satisfied, let their lot be what it may; they have
swallowed the horse-leech, and it continually cries, "Give! Give!" Only
sanctified souls are satisfied souls. God Himself must both convert us
and content us.
It is no wonder that the Lord's people should be satisfied with the
goodness of their Lord. Here is goodness without mixture, bounty
without stint, mercy without chiding, love without change, favor
without reserve. If God's goodness does not satisfy us, what will?
What! Are we still groaning? Surely there is a wrong desire within if
it be one which God's goodness does not satisfy.
Lord, I am satisfied. Blessed be thy name.