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Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 6:10 a.m.

NOT TO BE SATISFIED IN ANY VENTURE OR ADVENTURE IS TO BE DEMORALIZED, CONFUSED, DEMOTIVATED, FRUSTRATED EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEPRESSION. OUR SENSE OF SATISFACTION PRODUCES THIS INNER FEELING OF HAPPINESS, JOY, AND FULFILLMENT. 

HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND MANAGE OUR SENSE OF SATISFACTION IS BECOMING EVEN MORE CRITICAL AS WE STEP TOWARDS THE REALITY OF THE NATURE OF THE DAYS OF THE END. IN THE WHOLE CURRICULUM OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF REDEMPTION AND SALVATION LIES THE PRINCIPLE OF SATISFACTION.  WE VOLUNTARILY DO THINGS WE HOPE AND EXPECT WILL BRING SATISFACTION TO US.

SATISFACTION IS OF ONE OF THE CORE NEEDS OF HUMANS. WE ARE ALL BEINGS, DESIGNED TO BE SATISFIED. WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO LOSE THE SENSE OF FULFILLMENT AND SATISFACTION IN WHATEVER THEY DO, THEY BEGIN TO DIE. ONE OF THE MEAN REASONS WE GIVE OUR HEARTS TO THE LORD IS BECAUSE WE ASSUME, HE can ANSWER THE QUESTION OF OUR DISSATISFACTION. SATISFACTION DOES NOT JUST COME THROUGH WHAT WE DO BUT THROUGH WHAT WE'VE DISCOVERED.

THOSE WHO SEEK SATISFACTION THROUGH SOMETHING THEY DO OR DESIRE TO BECOME OFTEN FIND THEMSELVES DISAPPOINTED, AND THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE BECAUSE FULFILLMENT DOES NOT JUST BECOME VIA ACHIEVEMENT; ACHIEVEMENT IS BYPRODUCT OF SATISFACTION. THE CONVERSATION JESUS HAD WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN IS PREGNANT WITH THE ISSUES AROUND HUMAN SATISFACTION WHICH WE ALL NEED TO CAREFULLY ADDRESS ESPECIALLY IN THIS SEASON OF THE END OF DAYS. THIS MESSAGE SEEKS TO EXAMINE THE MATTER AROUND SATISFACTION AND HOW WE CAN TRULY FIND SATISFACTION.

John 4:1-18

1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact, it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” 16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

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