Why you might not be satisfied

What do you want? What do you really want?
Do you want to be happy? Do you want a husband or a wife? Do you want to be free from your debt? Do you want some time to do the things you enjoy? Do you want your own home? Do you want to be an amazing sportsperson? Do you want to be beautiful? Do you want to be liked? Do you want to stop feeling guilty? Do you want to have name for being a godly man or woman? It’s quite possible that you are turning up at church because you hope that God might satisfy any or all of these wants.

Have you ever stopped to consider that you may have fallen short in your wanting? You actually don’t want ENOUGH! You only want things and circumstances from God that you believe will allow you to be happy. Your interest in God is limited to him being the provider of personal good times which you can take away and enjoy.

If so, this is the reason why you are dissatisfied and always left wanting. And even if you get some of the things on the top of your wants list – you will still be left wanting. Why? Because you have never realised that what God wants to give you is himself.
Jeremiah 2:12–13
12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the LORD,
13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.

God lavishes his grace on you, not simply to make your play more fun. He does it so you will know him and joyfully trust him.