Satisfaction gauranteed

Satisfaction guaranteed

An old Gospel song says,” Only Jesus can satisfy your soul1
Only He can change your life and make you whole.”

As a person who accepted Jesus as my Savior at the tender age of eleven(going on twelve ) and now I am a senior of seventy, I can say without hesitation on my part that I have proven the words of that old song to be true. Jesus satisfies the deepest longing of my soul. A neighbor of my family used to stand in the testimony time in our little country church and he would say, “I find joy and peace and happiness in serving Him.” I agree with what Will said way back then, I too have found that joy there is in living the Christian life. Living a life that is centered in Jesus. Does that mean that I have achieved perfection as one commentator sarcastically suggested? Not by a long shot for I find many failures in my life I fail and stumble and fall just like everyone else does, the difference being I have found the Advocate with the Father, the Man Christ Jesus and He tonight ever lives to make intercession for us that whatever we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, material things may have a certain satisfying feeling but they do not bring that true satisfying peace that Jesus gives.
The great Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ whose name was
Paul said “if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” You might be tempted to say “that doesn’t sound like satisfaction”….but then in the next verse Paul says “But now is Christ risen from the dead”. Then he says “For since by man came death, by man also the resurrection from the dead.”(1 Cor. 15:19-21) The next verse “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” In so many words he was saying that, because of Adam’s sin the whole human race was condemned to die, but because Jesus died and rose again we also shall llive if we place our lives IN His hands. That is the best guarantee of satisfaction I know.