May 23, 2020 (Saturday)
In 1965, the Rolling Stones came up with the song, “(I can’t get no) Satisfaction.” Mick Jagger explained the lyrics: “‘Satisfaction’ was ‘my view of the world’, my frustration with everything… (disgust with) America, its advertising syndrome, the constant barrage.”
In other words, he wanted something real that would satisfy him and give him better feelings about life. He therefore was speaking for millions of people who are on a quest for something as yet undiscovered by them that would give their lives meaning and purpose.
A wonderful gospel song seems to respond to the desperate cry for “satisfaction” in the human heart: “Friends all around us are trying to find what the heart yearns for, by sin undermined. I have the secret — I know where ’tis found: Only in Jesus true pleasures abound. All that I want is in Jesus. He satisfies. joy He supplies. Life would be worthless without Him. All things in Jesus I find.
ALL THINGS IN JESUS
Author: Harry Dixon Loes
Harry Dixon Loes (1892–1965) was a well-known Christian hymn writer who wrote many prominent Christian hymns, including This Little Light of Mine (1920) and Blessed Redeemer (1920) with Avis Christiansen.
1 Friends all around us are trying to find
What the heart yearns for, by sin undermined;
I have the secret, I know where ’tis found:
Only in Jesus true pleasures abound.
Chorus:
All that I want is in Jesus;
He satisfies, joy He supplies;
Life would be worthless without Him,
All things in Jesus I find.
2 Some carry burdens whose weight has for years
Crushed them with sorrow and blinded with tears;
Yet One stands ready to help them just now,
If they with faith and in penitence bow. (Chorus)
3 No other name thrills the joy chords within,
And thro’ none else is remission of sin;
He knows the pain of the heart sorely tried,
All of its needs will in Him be supplied. (Chorus)
4 Jesus is all this poor world needs today;
Blindly men strive, for sin darkens the way.
O to draw back the grim curtains of night–
One glimpse of Jesus, and all will be bright. (Chorus)