June 13, 2006

• Satisfied

  For the past 10 weeks (and 2
  to go) I have been part of a group of women studying different aspects
  of the character of God.  It has been so refreshing to soak in
  Scripture in which God tells us about Himself and describes Himself to
  us. 

  One of the traits we were studying this week was God as My
  Satisfier.  There are some amazing verses in the Psalms about how
  God “satisfies the desire of every living thing”, “satisfies your years with good things”,  “satisfies
  the thirsty soul”.  I was doing some background study on these
  verses and ran across some thoughts that were eye-opening.  Here’s
  one little nugget:  In Psalm 103:5 where it says He satisfies your
  years “with good things” it could also read “He satisfies your years
  ‘so that it gets its cheeks full’!”  Being a visual person, the
  mental picture this brings me is worth more than a thousand
  words.  God longs to fill my cheeks!

  In another place (Psalm 36:8) it says “They drink their fill of the
  abundance of Your house and you give them to drink of the river of Your
  delights.”  Keil & Delitzsch expand on this to say the river
  of delights is “the abundant, pleasant and powerful gifts and goods and
  recreations with which God entertains those who are His”.  I have
  to think about that some more – being entertained by the abundant, pleasant and powerful recreations of God…!!!

  Here’s wishing you chubby cheeks…
  

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