Genesis 8:9

Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe to you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of His preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that even if you could indulge in sin without punishment, that indulgence itself would be a punishment; and that if you could have the whole world and live in it forever, it would be misery enough not to be separated from it; for your God—your God—is what your soul craves; then take courage, you are a child of God.

With all your sins and imperfections, take this to your comfort: if your soul has no rest in sin, you are not as the sinner is! If you are still crying out for and craving something better, Christ has not forgotten you, for you have not quite forgotten Him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of Him.

We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness; we want the manna which drops from on high. Our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When you feed on Him, your soul can sing, He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's, but if you do not have Him, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction; rather, lament over them in the words of wisdom, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!