“Fully satisfied”

Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You. I will praise You as long as I live, and in Your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods. Psalms 63:3-5 NIV

Verse Reflections:  Close your eyes and just breathe in the love of Christ.  Wrap yourself in a blanket of His love, His unconditional, unfailing love.  When we feel it holy, real and all-encompassing we just want to glorify Him, share Him, praise Him.  Music surrounds me with His love.  There are certain songs I listen to and I just have to stop life and lift my hands in praise to Him. I get this verse.  I feel this verse at times.  The rest of the world falls away and God and I are alone in the room even when it is filled with people. However, I need the second part of this verse as a food addict: “I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods.”  We need to take the feeling of being wrapped in God’s love, this craving for God’s love and know that it is enough.  We don’t need the rich foods to make us satisfied.  All we need is God’s love.  We need to carve this verse into our soul and feel fully satisfied before we pick up a fork each day.  God’s beautiful, pure foods are enough.  God’s love is enough.  We can be fully satisfied by His love and let His love sooth our souls as we have for so long allowed food to sooth our souls.  No longer.  We will not eat rich foods to satisfy cravings that are not even physical.  We will not eat rich foods to create more cravings that are physical.  We will break this cycle of eating sugars and carbs and physically craving more sugars and carbs.  God Plus 1.  We will be satisfied with the love of God.  It is enough.

Prayer:  Thank You Lord that we can be satisfied with Your love.  It amazes me that I have been doing my eating devotions for five months now and every day You lead me to another verse that speaks to me.  I guess the fact that eating was one of the ways Satan tried to tempt Jesus lets me know that this is not a new issue for mankind.  It is definitely my issue.  Today Lord let me wrap myself in Your love so that I want to lift my hands in praise.  Take that love and insert it into my soul.  Allow me to be satisfied as I am when I pig out on rich foods.  I love that David also felt that physical satisfaction that comes from eating rich foods.  And yet, he got the fact that he didn’t need the rich foods.  So Father, satisfy my soul.  Fill me to the point of brimming over today.  Allow me to be completely satisfied by You.  That is the secret for me Father, to start my day with You so that I am full inside and I am not seeking to fill an empty cavity inside the center of my being.  Thank You God for being the one that fills me.  Thank You for these verses.  They are the perfect way for me to start my day with You.  Love You.  God foods here we come because my soul is full and satisfied.