I Can't Get No Satisfaction...


The past 4 mornings I've woken up with the song, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" on my brain.  And since I don't like the Rolling Stones (Jim dear, I am sorry for that admission - really, truly sorry)...I finally figured out that I think God wants me to write about it.

This morning I read the lyrics of the song and I realized there is NOTHING there...

But then THIS phrase popped into my head: "He has put eternity in their hearts" (from Ecclesiastes 3:11) and now, everything is starting to make sense...

The entire verse in Ecclesiastes is this: "He has made everything beautiful in its time.  Also, He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end."

To me, what this is saying is - that no matter how beautiful our world is, no matter how many things we acquire while we are here, no matter how much fame, success, money or toys, we will ALWAYS feel a sense of longing and want - because God put eternity in our hearts, and without Him, we will ALWAYS be feeling, "I can't get no satisfaction"...

With ETERNITY in our hearts - nothing truly satisfies - but Him.  He put it there so we would search for the thing that would fill that void.  He put it there so we would look for Him.  And He promises: "Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asks receives, and he who seeks finds; and to him that knocks, the door shall be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8)

Psalm 107:9 makes it all clear - "For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things."

My dear Mick Jagger - YOU CAN get satisfaction, but it requires that you realize it is not found in the things the "world" tells you are good.  True satisfaction can only come from a relationship with God


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