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Satisfy and Replenish

It’s right around the corner, 2022 that is.

Fear not, this is not a post to encourage New Year’s resolutions!  Instead, it’s something that I hope will encourage you as consider the craziness of the last two years and wonder what 2022 will be like.

I’m going to share a verse from the book of Jeremiah.  Aside from all the appropriate arguments for context and that it is hard to definitively say that it is a promise for today, nonetheless, if we consider the character of God throughout all Scripture, the verse still points us to what God does for His people that He loves so dearly!

Jeremiah 31:25 – “For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

As is my bent in my writing, I would first point us to some basic definitions of the words:

Satisfy:  to make happy, to gratify to the full.

Weary:  exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor or freshness; having one's patience, tolerance, or pleasure exhausted.

Languishing:  to be or become feeble, weak; to be or live in a state of depression or decreasing vitality; to become dispirited.

Replenish:  to fill or build up again.

You may or may not have felt weary these past two years.  You may or may not have felt that you been languishing.  But I know I have.  To be honest, I’ve even felt both deeply at times.

I also know that I can’t seem to be able to come up with the resources, in and of myself, to simply pull myself out of them.

But I do know that the “I” in the verse above refers to God.  And I do know that He can satisfy me and replenish me. And I definitely need both!

So, as we look to 2022 and feel the weariness and languishing of 2020 and 2021, let’s to look to the God who alone can satisfy and replenish us in 2022. 

 

 

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