As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You]. (Psalm.17.15 AMP)
Two people seek satisfaction for the soul and even when both go to God, one might come out with an empty soul. Have you wondered why prayer and communion with God is a burden to some people yet the best experience for others?
Naturally a human spirit craves for what gives it satisfaction and that's why you can never feel satisfied no matter how much you eat for as long as it doesn't minister satisfaction.
But why do some find the satisfaction in God and yet others never experience it even when they try to seek it?
1. David said; As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness. Righteousness sets the ground for which someone looks unto God to be filled.
Matthew.5.6 Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied! (AMP). Many people go to God confident of a righteousness they have earned by their works. In this way they have no space for the righteousness that God imputes on a man by reason of their faith in Him. You will never be satisfied by God until you learn to thirst and hunger for a righteousness of God, not of works.
2. The sight of God. From where do you see God and do you know him anyway? Do you see God face to face or with a veiled face? Because David said I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself] beholding Your form. Meaning full satisfaction comes to anybody who sees God with an open face.
Before God changed Jacob's name to Israel, Jacob understood the power of communion with God not from the understanding of man as in what man thought God was. He tells his house to prepare to know the God who had revealed Himself to him.
Gen.35.1 - 3 Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau." So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."
What ever understanding you have about God has an impact on how much you will be filled by God. The weight and largeness of God depends on how close and open you are to receive his fullness. If you go to God with a mind partly occupied with foreign alters, you might struggle to commune with Him. The word change as used in the scripture also meant change of the alter.
You can not partake of the bread that satisfies when you dwell outside God. The right sight of God brings satisfaction to every soul.
Hallelujah!
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