The days when you feel most dissatisfied, those are the days we need to praise God. The more you are dissatisfied with life and ask it’s offerings, the more praise you need to give to God.
The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord ! May your hearts live forever! (Psalm 22:26)
I believe it is the human condition to feel isolated and alone. Moreover, I believe it is human nature to feel abandoned, deserted, and rejected. I actually know that we, as people, are so thoroughly dissatisfied with where we are, who we are, and what we do that any other feeling that we have outside of dissatisfaction feels wrong– like satisfaction is the big con for the dissatisfaction yet to come. The two strains of commonality between all those things that i just mentioned are “you” (or me) and “feeling.” We know that we, as people, have problems, so I won’t cover that issue with a ten foot pole. I do want to focus on our “feeling” of affliction and dissatisfaction. Like most “feelings,” the feeling of dissatisfaction and affliction are fleeting. They are here for a moment and gone the next. However, those fleeting feelings are so strong and powerful that we harbor an illness and proclivity within ourselves which keep us from seeing life beyond the lengths of our noses. While each person will deal with dissatisfaction and affliction differently, and that is totally okay to do so. I want to argue that those methods of dealing with those fleeting feelings are not working in large because they are merely bandages that cover wounds as opposed to healing them and treating them for what they are. If you are dissatisfied you need to praise God until you find God through that praise. If you are afflicted, you need to trust God will deliver you, after all, Jesus was afflicted for us all, and he understands. If you want to taste satisfaction– I don’t meaning the feeling of satisfaction, but the experience of true satisfaction, like your body feels like shutting down because you’re so full, type of satisfaction, you need to praise God. Keep praising God until you get to that satisfaction. King David wrote in this Psalm that the afflicted (dissatisfied and abandoned) shall praise God and then and only then will those people experience satisfaction that can only come through God.
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