Searching for Satisfaction

While going through my 6-year-olds heap of papers, pens, erasers, markers, cut-outs, and homemade creations on her desk, my mind could only wonder, how did it end up like this? How did we end up with so much STUFF, just on this desk?

Call me obsessive, but there is something about a cleaned off flat surface that puts my hands in the air! A cleaned off counter? A wondrous sight. A decluttered dresser? Hello! And yet I sometimes get this all-too-familiar feeling of dissatisfaction, no matter how decluttered an area is. It doesn’t matter how much I’ve tried to make our house a home, I can still let that creeping idea of “it’s not good enough” in.

And yet, since summer has started, I haven’t loved being in our home more. Now granted, we’ve spent the majority of June outside of it on a camping trip, high school retreat, and vacation with my family, so I suppose ya can’t really be dissatisfied with something you aren’t living in! But what I actually found is that since being home this past week, I was reminded that true satisfaction isn’t about WHERE or WHAT I live in, but WHO I fill my life with.

I can easily get reeled into the Pinterest world. The DIY/HGTV dreamy world. The social media “I wish I was like them” world.  Admittedly though, I am in control of EVERY movement of my finger on my phone and every click of a button on my computer. And yet, sometimes those voices of social media are the loudest in my life. Pinterest telling me that I need to DIY “this” in order to feel fulfilled. A DIY show telling me I need to do “that” to my house in order for it to be styled correctly and make a house a home. A social media account telling me I need to buy “this” in order to have the best or the latest and greatest. And YET, is that REALLY what I’m after?

It’s not. And I get sucked in, EVERY TIME.

What I’m truly after is nothing I can take with me to heaven. It’s nothing I can take with me to the grave. It’s nothing that I can protect enough, to make it last forever. And YET, that is often what I try to find my satisfaction in. I’m in this constant search for satisfaction and I’m often in all the wrong places. I control what effects, inspires, and influences my life.

And God alone, is where I will find true, genuine, and everlasting satisfaction. Learning to embrace the who and not the what, is where true satisfaction is experienced. There is nothing of this world, that will bring the satisfaction that Christ does.

Psalm 73:25-26 says:

25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart.

May my mind and my heart stand firm in the belief that earth has nothing to desire – except that of a relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. For my heart and flesh WILL eventually fail, but GOD is my strength.

Pinterest, DIY shows, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, the news, will all tell you where satisfaction, hope, trust, and “the good life” can be found. But don’t be fooled. If you are seeking after those such things, have you ever walked away fully satisfied?

Psalm 16:11 says,

You make known to me the path of life;
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,
    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

What more could we ask for? God is just WAITING for us to find contentment in him alone. The good life can’t be found on any social media account. They will never fully satisfied. So don’t waste your time searching for what will never be there!