Satisfaction

Mark 8 says, "They ate and were satisfied."

Isn’t satisfaction a nice word? You know, they’d been eating bread and fish. But it’s the word you’d use when you’ve had Thanksgiving dinner. You know, you’ve had turkey, the dressing, the gravy and the potatoes and whatever else you have, you know, and dessert. And you feel satisfied. You’re not hungry anymore. You’ve been replenished. And isn’t that what Jesus always does? Isn’t the provision that Jesus gives always satisfying? Because you can taste of the cisterns of this world, but those cisterns are broken, and you will be hungry again. But when you feed from the provision that Jesus gives you, it satisfies as nothing else can do...which reminds me of those beautiful words of Augustine, that “my heart was restless until it found its rest in Thee.” And I think that’s what Mark is trying to say to us here, that the Great Shepherd of the sheep ... satisfied them in a way that nothing else can do! -- Derek Thomas