NEVER SATISFIED...

It's a normal Saturday in our home.  We woke up this morning and I made a big Saturday breakfast for all of us.  I made some cheese omelets, Jimmy Dean sausage and some microwave bacon.  Later on, I took David to Walgreens for his weekly treat of a magazine, bag of chips and bottle of diet soda.   After leaving Walgreens I stopped and picked up a little treat for all of us. 

As soon as we got in the van to go to Walgreens, David started using his sign language to ask for food.  He had just eaten a big breakfast, but he wanted more.  While in Walgreens David asked repeatedly to eat.  When we left Walgreens David was asking to eat.  When I left the little snack shop David was asking to eat.  When we got home and ate the snack, David was asking to eat.  David has been coming to us and asking to eat about every five minutes. 

David had a big breakfast, a snack and has a bag of chips and soda in his room, but he's not satisified.  He wants more.  I'll start cooking dinner in a few minutes, but David still won't be satisfied.  As soon as dinner is finished, David will ask to eat something else.  If we have some kind of dessert or after dinner snack, David will still be asking to eat.

David's not hungry, he's had plenty to eat.  Now, I understand that David has physiscal reasons for never being satiated, but a spiritual application can be made.  God gives and gives to us so much more than we need.  But how often do we overlook all we have and crave what God has not yet given to us.  We live in a society where contentment is not a fostered attitude.  Commercials are trying to convince us we need the newest and brightest of everything.  Our pride tells us we need to keep up with the Jones' next door.  Even in church we want to make sure we have a new dress on Easter because our friends will have a new dress on Easter Sunday.

There are times I look around our home and am amazed at all the STUFF we have.  Even our home is too much!  There are two rooms and a basement we don't even use except once or twice a year.  But those rooms are all furnished nicely.  There are pictures on the walls.  God has given me more than I need, but I can easily find myself wanting more.

Today, I am going to try to be content in whatsoever state I am.  God is good to me - it doesn't matter if I have the newest of anything.  If the dress I wear on Easter Sunday is several years old it doesn't matter.  Easter Sunday isn't about the dress I wear, it's about the resurrected Saviour who defeated death to give me life.  I want to be satisfied with God's goodness.  How about you?