Our Satisfier

“The eyes of all wait upon Thee; (Creator) And Thou givest them Their meat in due season. (Giver) Thou openest Thine hand, (Provider) And satisfies the desire of every living thing.” (Satisfier) (Psalm 145:15, 16)

Satisfier, that’s an uncommon title for God. Few recognize in Him “the source of life, of wisdom, and of joy,” (SC 9). The language of David’s heart, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God,” “My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,” (Ps. 42:1, 2) is actually the heart-cry of humanity. “All men seek for Thee,” (Mark 1:37) was the declaration of the disciples as they interrupted their Master’s devotions. How true those words were (and are) but how limited was there application to the disciples. Jesus came to satisfy the soul-hunger of humanity—to bring the “kingdom of heaven”—the kingdom of grace—to humanity. He is the embodiment of the fruit of the tree of life—“the bread of life,” (John 6:35). We are, “complete in Him,” (Col. 2:10) and He alone can quench our soul’s thirst in this “dry and thirsty land, where no water is,” (Ps. 63:1). He is the “fountain of living waters” but humanity, like Solomon, hew “them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water” by vainly pursuing in the world that which is found alone in Christ, (Jer. 2:13). And so Christ came and expressed the language of the heart of the Father for His wayward children in the Great Invitation, “Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls,” (Matt. 11: 28, 29).