“Filled” is a fantastic word. It means: “absolutely satisfied.”
It means overflowing with God’s good, old fashioned, heartwarming happiness.
A twelve year old girl from the slums of Chicago was rushed to the hospital, diagnosed as having double pneumonia. Hospital administrators put her story together and discovered she was scrubbing floors twelve hours a day to support her mother and her four brothers and sisters. In the bitter cold of winter, she had developed pneumonia and was terribly underweight from malnutrition.
One day a nurse brought her a glass of milk. The girl looked up and asked, “How much can I have?”
“What do you mean, honey?” asked the nurse.
“The milk. How much can I have?”
“Why, all of it, of course,” replied the nurse. “Why do you ask?”
“Because at my house we draw a line on the glass. You can only drink to the line, and then you have to pass the glass to someone else.”
“Your Soul Will Delight”
The Bible says, “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare” Isaiah 55:1-2. God doesn’t draw a line on the glass.
Are you looking for real happiness? When you hunger and thirst after righteousness as desperately as a drowning man craves air, you’ll find it. It’s not just feeling; it’s living faith. It’s not sensation; it’s salvation. It’s not religion; it’s righteousness through responsibility. Happy are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Source: Being Happy in an Unhappy World
Daily Living
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