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"I will satisfy her poor with bread." Psalm 132:15

What a sweetness there is in the word "satisfy!" 

The world cannot satisfy the child of God. 
Have we not tried, some of us perhaps for 
many years, to get some satisfaction from it? 

But can wife or husband satisfy us? 
Can children or relatives satisfy us? 
Can all the world calls good or great satisfy us? 
Can the pleasures of sin satisfy us? 

Is there not in all an aching void? Do we not reap 
dissatisfaction and disappointment from everything 
that is of the creature, and of the flesh? Do we not 
find that there is little else but sorrow to be reaped 
from everything in this world? There is little else to 
be gathered from the world but . . .
disappointment,
dissatisfaction,
"vanity and vexation of spirit." 

The poor soul looks round upon the world and the 
creature—upon all the occupations, amusements 
and relations of life—and finds all one melancholy 
harvest—so that all it reaps is sorrow, perplexity, 
and dissatisfaction
.

Now when a man is brought here—to desire satisfaction, 
something to make him happy, something to fill up the 
aching void, something to bind up broken bones, bleeding 
wounds, and leprous sores—and after he has looked at 
everything—at doctrines, opinions, notions, speculations, 
forms, rites and ceremonies in religion—at the world with 
all its charms—and at self with all its varied workings, and 
found nothing but bitterness of spirit, vexation and trouble 
in them all, and thus sinks down a miserable wretch—why, 
then when the Lord opens up to him something of the bread 
of life, he finds a satisfaction in that which he never could 
gain from any other quarter. 

And that is the reason why the Lord so afflicts his people; 
why some carry about with them such weak, suffering 
bodies; why some have so many family troubles; why
others are so deeply steeped in poverty; why others have 
such rebellious children; and why others are so exercised 
with spiritual sorrows that they scarcely know what will 
be the end. 

It is all for one purpose—to make them miserable out 
of Christ—dissatisfied except with gospel food—to render 
them so wretched and uncomfortable that God alone can 
make them happy, and alone can speak consolation to 
their troubled minds.


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