Psalm 63:5

⁵ My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

It’s hard to imagine a time of the year when the joy of this verse is more meaningful and true than it is this week following Easter Sunday!  The Christian has been filled to the overflowing with God’s blessings in Christ Jesus!  Because God’s wrath has been satisfied in the cross, our souls are satisfied in the joy of salvation.  Satisfied in the hope of heaven and satisfied in the abundant grace, mercy and love of our Lord!  We could never indulge in the blessings of salvation to the point where we would ever exhaust God’s heavenly storehouse of these graces for His children.  Like the widow of Zarephath, daily we can partake of the oil and refreshment of God’s grace, and be filled to satisfaction!  I pray that you, fellow Believer, find great strength and rest in the fact that your soul is in a state of complete satisfaction in Jesus.  There is nothing that this world could offer that would ever, or could ever compare to the complete freedom and rest we have in Jesus Christ.  My soul is satisfied indeed!  Surely then, when David first recorded Psalm 63, he too must have been standing on the mountain top of celebratory joy and victory!  However, history paints a different picture for us.  David wrote this Psalm of praise not when his life was filled with the overflowing blessings of joyful circumstances, but rather during one of his life’s most trying moments.  David penned this Psalm when he was hiding in the desert wilderness of Judah as he fled either from Saul (1 Samuel 23) or when he was fleeing from his son Absolom (2 Samuel 15:13-30).  In this dry, desolate, and unforgiving environment, there was no doubt that David was in great want of shelter, food and water.  His body literally hungered and thirsted for physical refreshment and respite.  However, in the midst of his great physical need, he found his greatest comfort not in the thought of being satisfied with food and water, but in the satisfaction and joy of salvation in God.  Outwardly he was in great want, but inwardly he was full…satisfied in the Lord.  What a beautiful picture of the true condition of the soul of a Christian!  Outwardly we all face various trials, health concerns and suffering in all their various forms.  And yet, each of us should be able to declare, as David did, “my soul is completely satisfied” in Christ alone.  There is no question that our bodies, even though they are wasting away, are still in need of constant care, attention, refreshment, and nourishment, and yet they will never be satisfied.  But your soul, dear Christian, has been satisfied once and for all through the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  We have partaken of the Living Water, the Bread of Life.  And all who eat and drink of this will never hunger or thirst again!

All this world, its wealth and honor,
Cannot sate the human breast;
But when filled with God, our Father,
Every want is fully blest.
My soul is satisfied,
My soul is satisfied;
I am complete in Jesus’ love,
And my soul is satisfied.

Yours in Christ,

Pastor John