Simply Satisfied

Jeremiah 31:25 -- "For I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak."

Digging around in the bead drawer I have dubbed "Amethyst Chips" I find my heart sinking just a little. It doesn't take me long to come up with the new earring design, put the pair together, photograph them, card them, and then put them into my stock cabinet.  Where I know they will sit, and sit, and sit.  I had every plan to attend the HERI home school convention this year as a vendor. It would have been my first experience as a vendor and I was very excited about getting the CobbleStone Creations name out there and hoped to sell some of the stock I've been accumulating.  But I prayed.....very specifically about the convention.  I put out my fleece, as it were, and asked God to feel free to use a big fat Sharpie marker on it.  I often need things spelled out very clearly for me. Especially when it comes to prayer.

And...well, I won't be a vendor at HERI this year.  I hope to do it next year.

In one of the Bible studies I did not too long ago I was asked this question: Can you think of anything that you've worked hard to attain that didn't bring you the satisfaction you thought it would?  It wasn't too much longer after I mulled that one over that I was asked this: What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things/traits you want but don't yet have?

A CobbleStone Creations Original

Now for me...the are two HUGE questions.

When I read the verse in Jeremiah.....that God will satisfy the thirsty person and feed all the those who are weak, it stuck in my head that I have the answers to those two huge questions.  It might not really be the answer I was looking for, but it is, indeed, the answer I NEED.  On this, God never fails to provide.

Maybe, I'm not thirsty for the right things.  I've poured heart and soul...blood, sweat, and tears [maybe not the blood part] into my own business and product labels.  I so long to see it grow. Both boys have amazing ideas where designing jewelry is concerned and Brian's one-day-bride is so very talented in this area.  My hope is to get the ball rolling and then let them roll with it.  But in today's verse, I find that God IS my satisfaction.  He, and He alone, is what my hungry spirit longs to have.  He says, in sooooo many different ways through out His Word that, He is THE thirst quencher.

So....closing the stock cabinet, I am reminded that....perhaps, my focus is not on the things I know it should be.  If I allow things in my life....like my company....to get in the way of the things God wants me to be doing...then it's true....I'm not thirsting for the right things -- which really means, that one thirsty part of me will remain just that....thirsty.

God satisfies the thirsty person.  Always.

So with that.....I thank the Lord that he has given me the joy of designing fashion accessories, close the cabinet securely, and wait on Him to tell me what He wants me to do with it.