Saturday March 23, 2024
Jeremiah 31:14
“My people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” declares the LORD.
In his final days, just before slipping into unconsciousness, Memphis pastor Adrian Rogers told friends by his bed, “I am at perfect peace.”
Few people leave behind “last words” now because of medication to lessen suffering and pain. But in the times before the widespread use of anesthesia, people actually planned their dying sayings in advance.
Hymnist John Newton said as he was dying, “I am satisfied with the Lord’s will.” The “Sweet Singer of Methodism,” Charles Wesley, said on his deathbed: “I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness—satisfied, satisfied!”
Sir David Brewster, inventor of the kaleidoscope, said as he passed into heaven: “I will see Jesus. . . . Oh . . . I feel so safe and satisfied!” John Calvin said as he was dying, “I am abundantly satisfied.”
It isn’t just the dying who are satisfied, of course; it should be the living, too! As Clara Williams’s old hymn says,
Hallelujah! I have found Him
Whom my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies my longings,
Through His blood I now am saved.
We love the truth as it is in Jesus; and nothing but that will satisfy us.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 