Ever elusive, satisfaction is something craved the whole world over. As long ago as 1965, Mick Jagger released his famous single ‘I can’t get no [satisfaction]’. Nearly 60 years later, satisfaction is as beyond our grasp as it ever was. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus outlines the contours of what a beautiful life looks like. True satisfaction is not as far away as it might appear. As the sermon draws to its close, he insists that genuine contentment is just a prayer away.
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
