Worship for Today: Jesus Christ is the satisfaction of our appetites.

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Ecclesiastes 6:7,

"All man's efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied."

 

Here is a great summation of Solomon's thesis: life "under the sun" simply does not satisfy, hence it is "meaningless". Burning within the heart of man is a hunger, a yearning for things not found in this life. When we think of mankind's existence with his Creator in the garden, the proximity and interaction with God himself, it is exactly that which we miss as we are left in this lost and fallen world, estranged from our Creator, missing what we were created for. Fellowship with God. Here is where the answers lay for all the classical questions asked by the philosopher. "Who am I?" "Where did I come from?" "Where am I going?" "Why am I here?" None of these questions had to be asked in the garden.

 

Coupled with a sinful nature, this yearning produces the common ills known to man: addictive behaviors, sexual promiscuity, coveting what others have, the quest for fame, fortune and power. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. We have a gaping vacuum in our hearts, that God shaped gaping hole, that seeks to be filled in our sinfulness by looking in all the wrong places. And yet, "his appetite is never satisfied."

 

But God is to be found. He has revealed himself to us! The cause of the glorious and inexpressible joy believers have is in the finding of that which satisfies. The satisfaction of what our hearts yearn for is found in Jesus Christ. The fulfillment of that yearning is what David calls "eternal pleasures" at the right hand of the Lord, joy in his presence. Psalm 16:11. Our Savior beckons us to give up the quest for finding what satisfies in this life, it is not to be found here, in life under the sun, as Solomon amply proves in this book. What truly satisfies is found in the resurrection, in Jesus Christ, in a place at his table. Here is where appetites are satisfied!

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!

Trevor Fisk
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