Satisfied in Christ

I don’t know what you’re like, but when I was in high school, actually in junior high school, I kept looking forward in my life to a moment in the future where I would be happy. I can remember I couldn’t wait for my sixteenth birthday, because when I was sixteen, I could have my driver’s license. And when I have my driver’s license, then I’ll be happy. And after that, it was, “Well, this is great, but I want to own my own car. And when I own my own car, then I’ll be happy.” And I got my own car, but now I wanted to get out of high school. “Once I graduate, get out of here, I’ll be happy.” That didn’t work.

“Then once I graduate from college, once I get married, once we have a baby, once we build our first house, once I get a good job, once I do this, once I do that,” and I kept changing my goals and my plans and thinking that each plateau would bring me final peace and happiness. And I realized that’s not what we were made for. We were not made to be satisfied by things, but as Augustine has said, “O Lord, Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee.” We could change those words a little bit and say, “O God, Thou hast made us to be satisfied only by You. And we cannot be satisfied until we drink of the water that is Christ.”