- Satisfies and Fills
Psalm 107:9
For he satisfieth the longing soul,
And filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
St. Augustine: “Our souls are restless until they rest in You.” “Inside each one of us is a God-shaped vacuum.” This promise speaks to the longing soul and the hungry soul. The human soul is empty because it knows something is missing; something that was meant to be filling us inside is not there. That something is God.
Every human is longing inside and hungry, but he searches in vain for something or someone to fill the empty hunger; he remains hungry until God finds him, preaches the Gospel to him, and he hears and believes: then God enters and fills. The believer can, every minute, all day, be satisfied and filled with goodness. However, no one experiences that because they drift away through inattention and the awareness is not kept alive. We need constant reminding, so we pause whenever possible for a brief “Gospel Meditation,” wherein we tell our self the Gospel once again. We can never hear it too much and it never gets old.
In this way our soul is filled with goodness; God, the Holy Spirit, is filling us with himself, but it feels to us like goodness (love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, mercy, grace and life). God is good, and when He is present He grants goodness. When Jesus came to earth and entered the womb of Mary, she sang: “He has filled the hungry with good things.” Psalm 107:9 is fulfilled in Christ’s conception and birth.