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As we've gotten smarter about the role diet plays in living a healthy life, more and more nutrition experts are telling us to give in to our cravings. It wasn't long ago that you were told to resist temptation: When you want chocolate chip cookies, eat carrot sticks. But now, you're encouraged to satisfy that urge for chocolate—in moderation. The reason for the change in thinking? Diet experts finally got a handle on basic human nature.

When you want something, you want that thing and that thing only. Nothing else will satisfy you. In your efforts to stick to a diet, you eat around your cravings, munching on everything else you can find, only to end up eating the thing you really wanted anyway. You consume more fat and calories than you would have if you'd just had a couple of cookies in the first place.

The same holds for other areas of life. You want to satisfy your desires, but you resist the obvious source of satisfaction: God. Instead of turning to him, you might fill your time with activities that do little to quench your thirst for a truly fulfilling life. But God promises that those who follow him will be more than satisfied. God's people will experience the best life has to offer. (See also Deuteronomy 8:10-20; Ecclesiastes 3:1-14.)

Good Words to Remember:
Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good. Isaiah 55:1, 2

Today's Challenge:
Are you truly following the most satisfying life there is—with God? Why, or why not?