God Satisfies Psalm 103:5

Who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.


More than anything, God wants to satisfy our lives with good things. David says here that God satisfies our mouth with good things. He does that in a number of ways. First of all, God provided for our nourishment so that our youth is renewed and our vitality is extended. We live in a day where people are so conscious of what they eat from counting carbs to multi-vitamins to drinks that they take. Every effort is being made to retain that youthful appearance. We may feel like we are a hundred years old, but we sure don’t want to look like it!

Our problem is that we are looking in all of the wrong places to find the answers to the questions of life. We want all the good things but we don’t want to go to the source of life to get them. God will renew our vitality and satisfy our lives if we will but allow Him to do so. He and He alone knows the real answers that we so desperately want to find.

God also satisfies our mouth with good things that come out of our mouths as well, which renew our youth. Perhaps the saddest indictment on our society as a whole today, is the lack of respect and concern for people around us that is so prevalent in America today. We know how to let others do for us but by in large, we are not very giving in return. There is a prevailing attitude in our society that basically says, “Leave me alone and let me do my thing…if I need something I will ask for it.” Christianity is supposed to be right the opposite.

God’s design in life is to be blessed by Him and to be a blessing to others. As we are a blessing to others, good things come out of our mouths and that satisfies our being to the core. Life is to be shared. It is not what we get out of life that satisfies us, but rather what we give to life that really satisfies. It is not what we take from life but what we give to life that makes it worth the living. The age old adage of the more you put into it, the more you get out of it is so true, even today.

As God gives to us, His desire is that we give to those around us. The things that we speak to those around us make or break our lives. The things that we say determine the quality of the life that we enjoy. If we will be honest with ourselves, we work so hard to have so much to fill the emptiness in our lives so that we will be satisfied. God never intended for us to try to fill those voids with things. He intended to fill those voids Himself and as we receive we give and that and that alone would satisfy the deepest needs in our lives. Then, as we are satisfied, the things that we need to surround our lives would be there.

God’s way is the only way to find real satisfaction in our lives. The great news is that life is readily available to us the very moment we take God by the hand and allow Him to do all the things that He has planned to do for us! He will satisfy our mouths with good things and renew our youth like the eagles! Make prayer a priority and get ready to soar!