If you are using a prepaid sim for your cellphone they give you a number of choices with regards to load. You can load as low as 10 pesos, and even as high as 300 pesos, depending on your mood, or on how much money you have. For me, for the past years that I have had a prepaid sim, the 200 peso load has served me well. I can convert the full amount to have text unlimited to the same network, a number of minutes of free calls to the same network, plus 500 free texts to other networks for a whole month! I can use it worry free for the whole month and just reload when it expires. cool deal.
But this week, for what reason I have no idea (have you ever done something for no specific reason at all), I decided to go for the smaller amount. I loaded 50 pesos, which, when converted, gives me unlimited text to the same network for one week, but later on only realized that it does not give me as much free texts to other networks and no free calls. So, after around 2 days into the plan, when I tried to respond to a text message of a friend from another work I was surprised to find out I did not have enough load to text to other networks. What a hassle! All of a sudden I felt no satisfaction whatsoever in choosing the lower load. It's not that I couldn't afford my usual 200 load, I just decided to go 50 pesos. And it wasn't worth it.
That's what you get when you are able to "taste" the benefits of something, and then later on settle for less. For whatever reason we choose the lesser option it does not become as satisfying as the better offer.
It works the same for those who truly walk with God.
Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
John 4:13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Many know God, or know about God. But not many have "tasted and seen" that the Lord is good. This isn't just the "good" of blessings or of good things. He who has tasted of God has had a deeper experience than just having prayers answered, or receiving good things.
How many of us know that God is good because though we were sinners made a way for us to be reconciled to Him? He did this by sending the Son of God to become man and die for us on the cross. This, and only this, is enough to make someone know that God is "good". And even if other good things don't happen in our life, just the fact that God showed His love for us through the cross is enough to make us joyful.
How many of us have tasted the goodness of God even in the midst of trials and hardships? How many of us know that despite the troubles we face in this world, our God has promised us not only eternity, but also that He would never leave us or forsake us, and that He would take care of our needs, give us strength during hard times. His love, comfort, strength are what we taste and make us know that, despite our circumstances, He is good.
When we have a taste of this God, nothing else satisfies. As Jesus told the Samaritan woman, if we drink the water that comes from Him we will never thirst! We will always be satisfied, both eternally and the present life.
So why do we settle for less? We know we are true believers when we settle for less, and then realize it does not satisfy, and seek to come back to the One who alone can truly satisfy.
This is the way sin attacks us, lures us, away from God. It promises us something better than what God has to offer, or has already offered to us. When we succumb to temptation we eventually realize that it does not satisfy.
If you have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, why go back to what does not satisfy?
Why settle for less?
