Satisfaction Guaranteed

You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:11

Legend says that a Nordstrom department store—a clothing retailer—refunded cash to a man who insisted he bought snow tires there but wanted to return them. A cofounder of Home Depot claims one of his stores did the same thing for a customer. Supposedly, both stores wanted to prove that “the customer is always right.”

As amazing as those claims are, no doubt even the best retailer has a limit to what it will do to satisfy a customer. But no such limits exist with God’s plan to satisfy His children in eternity. The psalmist writes that God plans to provide “fullness of joy” and “pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11) for those who inherit the eternal Kingdom of God. Not a single promise of God has ever been found to be untrue, and there is no reason to doubt God’s guarantee of total satisfaction. It’s possible to be jaded about such promises, but the policies of modern companies that don’t back their guarantees should not make us suspicious of God’s promises.

If you long for total satisfaction in this life, take God at His Word today. And prepare to be satisfied forever.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

JONATHAN EDWARDS