We could not make the angels happy

(J.R. Miller)

"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." Jeremiah 2:13

The human soul cannot be satisfied with any of earth's good things. This is not the fault of the things of earth--they are good and beautiful, in their own way and in their own place. But the soul is spiritual and immortal. Money and fame and power--can never be food for a soul made in the Divine image; nothing less than God Himself can answer its cravings.

We could not make the angels happy by giving them gold and diamonds, and building them fine marble palaces to live in, and putting crowns and fine clothes on them. No more can we satisfy our own souls with such things. Men try to do so--but their thirst is only momentarily quenched--and soon they must drink again. Gratification only intensifies desire.

"Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4:13-14

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