Insatiable – the word seems to describe the very fabric of our society today. It is defined as…

Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insatiable

It describes our individual (and collective) appetites for excitement, food, money, drugs, technology, entertainment, power, ego, sex, and prominence (and possibly every other desire that can be imagined). While much of the world struggles to just survive, in our society we work several jobs in order to have more than our neighbor. The collective motto seems to be, “He who dies with the most toys, wins.”

However, the REASON that people are never satisfied is that what they are searching for things that cannot satisfy. The deepest need/desire of a human being is to have intimate fellowship with our Creator.

One of the most unforgettable Scriptures is Jeremiah 31:14. In the King James Version it reads,

Jer 31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

This applies to me (and you if you have been born again) – since Jesus died on the cross for our sins, we have become a nation of priests. Each Christian now has direct access to God as a priest. The word “satiate” is used to describe feeding until the receiver stops eating. That means that every child of God has a blessed promise that our Father will MORE than satisfy our desires!

When we receive God’s love in our hearts, we become satiated. We can stop seeking the ever more elusive “high” that adrenaline, power or other drugs can never deliver!

Be blessed & pass on the blessing…

The New Testament Scriptures define the Source of authority.

Authority According to Barney Fife

Romans 13:1 (KJV) speaks of “power” and “higher powers” and the fact that “there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” The NIV translates the original Greek word here as “authority” rather than “power.” In the NIV the Scripture reads, “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.”

The writer of Romans simply stated the fact that GOD is the Source of all legitimate authority. Anyone trying to exercise authority that God did not establish can be said to have exceeded his (or her) authority. So how do we determine which authority is legitimate and which is illegitimate? The answer seems to lie in the definition of the (KJV) word “ordain” used in Romans 13:1.

The original Greek word that the editors of the KJV translated as “ordain” is the word tasso (Strong’s <5021>).  It means: 1) to put in order, to station; 1a) to place in a certain order, to arrange, to assign a place, to appoint or; 1a1) to assign (appoint) a thing to one; 1b) to appoint, ordain, order. This is similar to what our military calls “the chain of command.” It refers to the fact that each person in the chain is accountable (we will consider this concept in a later article) to those under whose authority he/she operates.

Again, God is the SOURCE of all legitimate authority. The bottom line is… unless God (the Ultimate Authority, cf. Mt 28:18) has shared a portion of His authority (possibly through the “chain of command”) to an individual, any “authority” that they may claim is ultimately void and WILL be taken away!

Another point that can be drawn from this is that, although each person in the chain has some authority, they also have accountability. They are accountable to the person from whom they draw authority. The British Royalty and indeed, almost all nations proclaim their own “sovereignty.” However, no one is SOVEREIGN except God Himself. You can print it on coins and advertise it around the globe but, in the end, “[ALL] men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken” (Mt 12:36). Read the rest of this entry »