John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

Everyone wants to be satisfied. On the surface of this scripture there is physical need. I hunger, feed me. Under the layers of complex human emotions lies a longing for things to be made right. Wrongs need to be righted. Social injustices need to be eliminated. Pick your agenda, you want satisfaction.

I will make a wager with you on any issue. If you find satisfaction on your issue and win your cause, you will turn and pick up the gauntlet for a new agenda. When your need for satisfaction is driven by focusing on what is wrong with the world, you will never be satisfied, ever.

John 12:8a For the poor always ye have with you;

Jesus said they did not come for the miracles. The miracle is that Jesus restores us to a right condition. All that you can do to serve man, and we should, cannot be accomplished until we have been restored ourselves. When that happens, we stop looking at the injustice and we concentrate on the miracle worker. If you want to make things right in this world, the power lies with the miracle worker who restores mankind to a right condition.

Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Matthew 7:3-5 will not be quoted here for personal reasons.

Psalms 121:8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

If you have never come into the presence of the Lord, then I do not have any way to impress this point on you. It is a solemn event, private, exclusive and guarded. It is only to be compared, perhaps, to the privacy enjoyed by husband and wife. It is a time to be enjoyed and cherished.

Rather than focusing on the preservation of privacy, I would like to point to the essence of the going out and the coming in. There are so many comparative thoughts here which could demonstrate the necessity, they all fail to encompass the experience.

If I said you went in to refuel like getting gas, you would see it as a source of energy. If I said it were to restock your pantry, you would see it as a source of provision. If I said you went in to know the will of the Father, then it would be to receive orders. If I go in as a son, perhaps He would have me come out and say, “Father wants you to know…”

The essence of the in and out is that both places have to be experienced and you cannot stay to long in one place or the other without both suffering loss. This relationship between being in the presence of the Lord and being with mankind is the crankshaft of the motor to obedience of faith. It is faith in motion.