Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - When Life's a Broken Vending Machine - #8275

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

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I’m working in my hotel room. I want a soft drink to keep me going. I go down the hall to the vending machine and put in the four quarters—nothing happens. The coin return doesn’t work. I have a choice: forget that vending machine or just keep putting more money into it until I get what I’m after. This is not a hard choice.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft. And ironically, life offers us many “vending machine” choices. I invest myself in something I think will meet my need: a relationship, an accomplishment, a career, even religion or spirituality. But ultimately it doesn’t deliver what I’d been hoping for. How often has our answer been to just keep putting more into what doesn’t deliver? I don’t need more of what leaves me empty. I need to look where the needs of my heart will be truly met.

Here’s God’s life-changing invitation: “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters. Why spend money on what is not bread and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen to Me…and your soul will delight in the richest of fare…seek the Lord…call on Him” (Isaiah 55:1 , 2, 6). Bottom line: the emptiness is there because what we’re made for isn’t there—a personal love relationship with the God who made us, with the Savior who died to remove our sin and make that relationship possible. Every other destination will leave us unsatisfied and restless. No matter how much more we get of it, the search for what will satisfy your thirsty soul ends at the cross of Jesus Christ.

We’d love to help you begin your relationship with Him today. Would you visit our website? It’s ALifeThatMatters.org.

This radio program references: Isaiah 55:1 , 2, 6.