Jeremiah 31:14

"My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, saith the LORD." Jeremiah 31:14

Note the "My" which comes twice: "My people shall be satisfied with My goodness."

The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God's own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with Him. They call Him their God, and He calls them His people; He is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with Him...

Stephen had been brought up on the mission field. He professed faith in Christ at an early age and had been the means of leading several to the Lord. When he first came back to the States to attend college, he maintained a good testimony. But then he began to drift. Coldness set in. He compromised with sin. Soon he began to dabble in Eastern religions.

When his parents came home on furlough, they were heartsick. They pled, reasoned, and entreated, but he was adamant. Finally they went...

The Lord's people are satisfied with his goodness, even in this life, in such a sense that they willingly forsake all and follow him. In the privation of all other things they are still so satisfied with the love of their divine Saviour, that they cast no regretful looks behind. Ah, but there are some, esteemed the people of God, who seem not to be satisfied with the simple goodness of their heavenly Father: there is too manifest a grasping after the riches and dignities of the earth. Would...

You have tasted that the Lord is gracious.O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory. § My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. § Having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.I shall be satisfied when I awake in...