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"Sanctified Souls Are Satisfied Souls" "And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD." Jeremiah 31:14Note the "My" in this verse which comes twice: "...my people shall be satisfied with My goodness." The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God's own. He is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him. They call Him their God, and He calls them His people. He is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with Him to be His portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God's Israel and Israel's God. These people are satisfied. This is a grand thing. Very few of the sons of men are ever satisfied, let their lot be what it may; they have swallowed the horseleech, and it continually cries, "Give! give!" Only sanctified souls are satisfied souls. God Himself not only converts us, He gives us content. It is no wonder then that the LORD's people should be satisfied with the goodness of their LORD. Our LORD deals in goodness without mixture, bounty without famine, mercy without chiding, love without change, favor without reserve. Why then are we still groaning and complaining? If God's goodness does not satisfy us, what will? Surely there is a wrong desire within us if it be one which God's goodness does not satisfy. Yes LORD, I am satisfied. Blessed be Thy name!