"CANNOT SATISFY!"

Ezekiel 7:14-19                                   (ESV)
"14 "They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.
15 The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
16 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
17 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
18 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They "CANNOT SATISFY" their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity."



Modern times and innovations has brought many comforts to most living in the Western Hemisphere. Very few remember a time of not knowing if there would be food to nourish their family before they went to sleep?  Nor have most had to decide whether to strongly encourage a teenager to leave home because they couldn't be cared for by the family.  We have become so comfortable in our air conditioned homes, driving our fancy cars, living in a jet-set mentality where our thirst for more "CANNOT SATISFY" our desires!

There are so many who attempt to quench their need for MORE!  Yet JESUS said in Matthew 19:24 "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of GOD."  But some wind up changing jobs, changing residences, changing spouses, changing everything but their hearts!  Maybe they try to CHANGE things because they are trying to get a different result?  They look for "things" to make them complete, but find things do not, and "CANNOT SATISFY" the emptiness inside!

In verse 19 above, Ezekiel points out that "They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing".  Mankind seems to rely on money to be the answer for all of life's problems.  But Ezekiel points out that there will come a time when "they cast their silver into the streets", because when GOD judges "this world", money will lose its appeal.

When all of the man-made comforts of "this world" are tried and they "CANNOT SATISFY", maybe THEN people will begin looking beyond earthly pleasures for fulfillment.  Not in drugs, not in sex, not in wealth or possessions, but only in the grace afforded by a relationship with JESUS CHRIST!  HE is the only answer for the desires that we "CANNOT SATISFY"!