SPEND, SPEND, SPEND

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"Why do you spend money for what

is not bread, And your wages for what

does not satisfy?" 

(Isaiah 55:2 NASB)   

The joys and satisfaction of spending is very brief.

It may give you a house full of "stuff".  But you 

will not be satisfied with it.  Things do not fulfill

life and you will be spending again tomorrow trying

to be happy.  But it will not work. 

It was God himself who made the comment through

the prophet Isaiah.  He goes on to say:

"Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,

And delight yourself in abundance.

Incline your ear and come to Me.

Listen, that you may live;"

(isaiah 55:2b, 3 NASB)  

Our satisfaction needs to start with listening to

and paying attention to God's instructions.  That 

will be the only way we will get true satisfaction

in life.

TRUE SATISFACTION

"There are many who pray:

'Give us more blessings, 

O Lord.

Look on us with kindness!'

But the joy that you have given me

is more than they will every have

with all their grain and wine."

(Psalms 4:6,7 GNT)

Just like us today, 

we want more.

But the real satisfaction is not in

more  "stuff" or blessing.

But in the joy of the Lord.

For true satisfaction we need more

of God and his joy.

The blessing will take care of themselves.

"He is richest who is content with the

least, for content is the wealth of nature."

- Socrates.

WHAT TO TAKE SATISFACTION IN

"Thus says the LORD,

'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,

neither let the mighty man glory in his might,

let not the rich man glory in his riches;

But let him who glories glory in this,

that he understands and knows me,

that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness,

judgment, and righteousness, in the earth;

for in these things I delight, says the LORD."

(Jeremiah 9:23,24 AKJV)

MATERIAL POSSESSIONS SATISFACTION

"I made great works;

I built me houses; I planted me vineyards.

I made me gardens and orchards,

and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits;

I made me pools of water, to water the forest 

of growing trees.

I got me servants and maidens

and had servants born in my house;

also I had great possessions of great and small cattle

above all that were in Jerusalem before;

I gathered me also silver and gold,

and the treasure of kings and of the provinces;

I got me men singers and women singers,

and the delights of the sons of men,

as musical instruments, and that of all sorts......

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done,

and on the labour that I had laboured to do:

and, behold,

all was vanity and vexation of spirit,

and there was no profit under the sun."

(Ecclesiastes 2:4-8,11 AJKV)

SEEKING SATISFACTION

"He that loves money will not be satisfied with money;

nor he that loves wealth with increase;

this also is vanity.

When goods increase,

they are increased that eat them;

and what good is there to the owners 

but to see them with their eyes?

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,

whether he eats little or much;

but the abundance of the rich will not let him sleep."

(Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 AKJV)