dailydatewithgod

While the song Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones is very popular and quite catchy, on its face it is rather hopeless.  What is the point if we can never be satisfied?  Why bother?  On a deeper level what Mick Jagger and Keith Richards may have been alluding to is the idea of satisfaction not coming from the sources where we seek it.  It is not going to come from another person, a product,  or what the world has to tell us to get us going.  God did not design us to be satisfied with the uncertainty of an ever-changing world.  It is satisfying at the moment but it is fleeting.  We cannot sustain a feeling.  Feelings are meant to move.  Opening ourselves up to the courageously seek out the satisfaction of our hearts brings us once again to the deepest part of ourselves. God has already given us what we need within to find the peace and contentment of which we seek.  Life even works in partnership with this design because often it is not until we experience yet again the dissatisfaction of the unsustainable outer experience of peace and contentment do we turn inward.  We think it is a failure or we are on losing streak like they sing of in the song.  What if those experiences are designed as such to prompt us to seek within ourselves?  As far as I can tell when we leave this world we cannot take anyone or anything with us.  We cross over on our own and maybe it is time we started to seek peace and contentment within ourselves.  The great benefit of this as I have learned on my daily dates with God is it changes the eyes with which I view the outside world. Suddenly what I see on the outside is more satisfying than when it was the only place from which I sought satisfaction.