It is God Who Satisfies - Deuteronomy 7-9

Deuteronomy 8:7-10 (ESV Strong's)
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

It is God Who Satisfies

In the above passage, after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, the nation of Israel is going to enter the “promise” land.  The “promise” land is a picture in the Bible of “resting” in Christ.    It is a picture of complete satisfaction.   Notice who gives them this rest!  The passage reads, “For the Lord your God is brining you into a good land ...”.    They are not securing the land based upon their merit.  They are not securing the land based upon their own righteousness.  In fact, note what the writer of this book writes just a few verses later:

Deuteronomy 9:4-5 (ESV Strong's)
“Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

If we get any satisfaction in life it is because God gives us that satisfaction.    They will go in and conquer the land with the power of God, for the praise of God and to the glory of God. In return God will give them glory and honor and immortality.    They will find satisfaction because they are trusting in and relying on the power of God to bring them into the land that flows with milk and honey.    Whenever we trust in God completely we can be satisfied, because He will only bring into our lives what He wants us to have.  And, if He wants us to have it in our lives it is for His glory.