The halfbaked Bard

Satisfy - to meet the expectations, needs or desires of someone.              - to please someone by giving them what they want or need. What is one thing that satisfies you? It might be different things in different times. Those very things which makes you happy at one point of time may dissuade you later. Those that appease you now will bore or annoy you later. Ice creams are definite delicacies. But would you want to indulge in something sweet after you are so full following a seven course meal. Our satisfaction and level of need changes. But only one thing remains. The longing to be with your Father. He can only satisfy always. No matter what your situation is. Elated? Excited? Overwhelmed? He can still satisfy. Bored? Annoyed? Agitated? Depressed? He is the only one who can satisfy. There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the creator made known through Jesus C...

Gen 31.43 Jacob addresses God as God of my father - God of Abraham and the fearesome God of Isaac  Several years later in Gen 48.15 he says - "May the God before whom my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life, to this very day." "Their God" has changed gradually to "my God" - over the years as he experienced God face to face in his sojourn. Where he has seen the hand of God providing for him, protecting him, blessing him, correcting him, relating to him, prompting him to repent and correct himself. God has become a personal God. Not as a God who would dance according to his whims and fancies. But a God who loves him personally as a father would love his son.  We understand this uniqueness and personal nature of this God, much more because of the cross. A God who does all things as He did for Jacob, He also held Himself responsible for the root cause of our rebellion and paid the penalty.  A ...