SatisfySeveral people told me they appreciated the song that was played during our response time this past Sunday.  Our worship team did a great job and the song brought encouragement to many.   Music has a way of speaking to the heart and enabling us to experience God in the totality of our being.

The song we played was Satisified and it was written by Clara T. Williams in 1875.   In her early days she ministered as a circuit-riding preacher, visiting small and remote communities.  She married a Reverend Williams in 1895 and continued to work as an evangelist and a co-pastor with her husband until 1920.

The hymn Satisfied  was written in 1875 as Clara was helping in evangelistic meetings and the song leader asked her to compose a hymn.  That evening she penned the words to the hymn below:

All my life long I had panted for a drink from some cool spring
That I hoped would quench the burning of the thirst I felt within
Hallelujah! He has found me, the One my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies all my longings, through his blood I now am saved

 

Feeding on the filth around me, ‘till my strength was almost gone
Longed my soul for something better, only still to hunger on
Hallelujah! He has found me, the One my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies all my longings, through his blood I now am saved

Poor I was and sought for riches, something that would satisfy
But the dust I gathered ‘round me only mocked my soul’s sad cry
Hallelujah! He has found me, the One my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies all my longings, through his blood I now am saved

Well of water ever springing, Bread of Life so rich and free
Untold wealth that never faileth, my Redeemer is to me
Hallelujah! He has found me, the One my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies all my longings, through his blood I now am saved

Words: Clara T. Williams, 1875
Music: Karl Digerness, 1997
©1997 Karl Digerness Music

This song is filled with a number of Scriptural allusions and reveals the joy we experience when the longing of our souls is filled with Jesus.  Have your deepest longings been satisfied in Jesus? 

Don’t settle for less than God’s best.  The Rolling Stones couldn’t get find satisfaction but you can through Jesus,

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”  (John 7:38)

 

RickAssociate Pastor – Discipleship.  The Church at LifePark

Professor of Discipleship, Columbia International University

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