Our lives are like the chorus from the Rolling Stone’s song.
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
’cause i try and i try and i try and i try
I can’t get no, i can’t get no
Everything we seek trying for that elusive satisfaction either fails to satisfy at all or we find that the satisfaction is temporary and fleeting at best. We seek money and it soothes for a little while, but it takes more and more, like a junkie chasing his next fix to get any satisfaction for any time at all.The love we seek fails to satisfy in the ways we had hoped – it is love, and it hopefully lasts, but it was never meant to satisfy in us what needs satisfying. Cars, houses, TVs, jewelry, toys, etc…………. none of it satisfies as we want it to. There is craving that we can’t seem to quench.
From pulpits across our nation and across the world we proclaim that there is a fix for our craving to be found by going to Church. They say to look at us, we are different, we have what can satisfy. So we go and come in – and still the craving is not satisfied. There is just as much unhappiness in there as there is out there in the world. We divorce at the same rate, get diseases at the same rate, and go thru many of the same things that everybody else does. There is much of the same backstabbing, gossiping, affairs, sexual impopriety in the Church as outside. Something is not right!
I sense a growing trend that there is an awakening coming, a renewal of the spirit and the soul – that we are close to seeing and experiencing and being a part of what can truly satisfy. God has been dealing with me for many months about this and I know of others that have been experiencing this inner knowledge that things aren’t right – but not just that they aren’t right – but that God is getting ready to show us a different way.
Hold on… In the coming days I plan on sharing more about what I think God is doing.
Steve
