As the smells emanating from a restaurant draw us into the restaurant, so all the things we enjoy are but the aroma of our Creator and are intended to draw us to Him. As it makes no sense to leave a restaurant to pursue the smells outside, neither does it make sense to pursue the satisfaction of things and bypass or ignore the very Source of the pleasure they bring us. God is the Source of all that delights us. Not just the Source of the things that delight us. He is the Source of the delight the things bring us.
David put it this way: Because Your love is better than life… My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods… (Psalm 63:1-5).
In other words, He is the prime rib. He is the blackened mahi mahi. He is the warm, freshly baked bread. He is the hot French fries. The things we ask of Him are but the aroma of the delight that He is.
Yes, God is a provider and a deliverer and He wants us to ask Him for what we want, but that is not all there is to Him. He wants us to want Him more than what He can do for us or what He can deliver us from. Not because He is on an ego trip, but because He is superior to and more satisfying than anything He could give to us or do for us. And He invites us to not settle for less! Taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8).
One day the disciples came to Jesus to give Him something to eat. He responded, I have food to eat you know nothing about (John 4:32). Jesus was being satisfied by the very Source of the pleasure physical food would have brought Him. May our hearts long for that food today. The food beyond the natural and the ordinary. The supernatural fullness of the Lord Himself.
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