From our Torah this week we read: “For the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing” (Deut. 2:7). With God you have everything you need; without Him, you will never be truly satisfied. “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee,” which is to say that the merry-go-round of desire for things of this world is ultimately vain and unfulfilling. Indeed, it is slavery to be attached to unslakeable desire; it is madness to restlessly desire more and more. God has set eternity within our hearts (Eccl. 3:11), a hunger that only heaven can fulfill, but we try to find happiness with the trinkets and junk of this passing realm.... When the LORD is with us – and when we dwell in the simplicity of that reality – we lack nothing: “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you” (Psalm 84:11-12).
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:16:00 +0000
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