The Unsatisfied Soul

May 1, 2011 

I have so much bitterness in my heart towards people who judge me, but who are people?  Why do I base my worth through the eyes of fallen humanity?  Why are not my eyes set on God?  God, I have doubts, about myself, about what others think about me, I feel lost.  Do I belong anywhere?  But I’ve been looking down, my view has been on the earthly way of doing things, on mere humans, on myself.  It’s time to look up.  Time to see that the recognition & affirmation of man is a vain pursuit.  It’s not about me, not about my background, family, my good works.  It’s about God.  It’s about Him getting the Glory.  My only Hope is in You God.  You are the point of life.  Everything else is a vain pursuit, a waste and completely void of meaning.  Ecclesiastes screams of the ache of the unsatisfied soul & nothing a man does can ever fill the void, the deep emptiness of the soul.

Ecclesiastes…

“Nor is his eye satisfied with riches” 4:8

“but his soul is not satisfied with goodness” 6:3

“adding one thing to the other to find out the reason which my soul still seeks but I cannot find” 7:28

But with God, with God..

“He who fears God will escape them all” 7:18

“Yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God” 8:12

“the righteous & the wise & their works are in the hand of God” 9:1

“but for him who is joined to all the living there is hope” 9:4

“fear God & keep His commands. For this is mans all” 12:4

When we awake to the glory that all of life should point to Him, life comes together. All the pieces make a huge bright arrow pointing up, pointing to who He is, to what He’s done, to what He’s doing. No matter how broken & crumpled things are.  It’s for His Glory, all this dysfunction, all of this falleness is a backdrop for His Glory to shine.  The entire world is for the display of God’s Glory-that’s the point.  That’s the point of life- all of life is pointing to You Oh God!

That God gets the glory even in our despair, that He is at work here breaking our hearts, breaking us of our outward man.  God is bringing us to the wilderness to show us “His love is better than life” psalm 63.  To show us how empty we are, to show us desperation.  The answer to the despair of Ecclesiastes is Psalm 63.  

 My soul shall be satisfied in Your love psalm 63