Dear Friends,
For how many years has Mick Jagger been singing “I don’t get no satisfaction”? Yet there are many others who are also saying that about their entire life. They hunger and they thirst they know not what for? Could that be you. Meditate on today’s devotional God bless you.
Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Isaiah 55:1-13

  Isaiah 55:1-13   ESV

  The Compassion of the Lord

  55 “Come, everyone who thirsts,
      come to the waters;
  and he who has no money,
      come, buy and eat!
  Come, buy wine and milk
      without money and without price.
  ² Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
      and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
  Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
      and delight yourselves in rich food.
  ³ Incline your ear, and come to me;
      hear, that your soul may live;
  and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
      my steadfast, sure love for David.
  ⁴ Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
      a leader and commander for the peoples.
  ⁵ Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
      and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
  because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
      for he has glorified you.

  ⁶ “Seek the Lord while he may be found;
      call upon him while he is near;
  ⁷ let the wicked forsake his way,
      and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
  let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
      and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  ⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
      neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
  ⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
      so are my ways higher than your ways
      and my thoughts than your thoughts.

  ¹⁰ “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
      and do not return there but water the earth,
  making it bring forth and sprout,
      giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
  ¹¹ so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
      it shall not return to me empty,
  but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
      and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

  ¹² “For you shall go out in joy
      and be led forth in peace;
  the mountains and the hills before you
      shall break forth into singing,
      and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
  ¹³ Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
      instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
  and it shall make a name for the Lord,
      an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

• John 4:13-14

  John 4:13-14   ESV

  ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.^[a] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Isaiah 55:1-13; John 4:13-14

“FILL MY CUP, LORD

“Like the woman at the well I was seeking

For things that could not satisfy;

And then I heard my Savior speaking:

‘Draw from My well that never shall run dry.’

There are millions in this world who are craving

The pleasure earthly things afford;

But none can match the wondrous treasure

That I find in Jesus Christ my Lord.

So, my brother, if the things this world gave you

Leave hungers that won’t pass away,

My blessed Lord will come and save you

If you kneel to Him and humbly pray:

‘Fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up, Lord!

Come and quench this thirsting of my soul;

Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more ―

Fill my cup, fill it up, and make me whole.”

[Richard Blanchard]