The Bible says:
“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
— Ecclesiastes 1: 8
Men are not genuinely happy until the inner man is completely satisfied. Not until the inner man finds meaning and fulfillment will he know peace and rest and contentment.
The eye and the ear are inlets into the inner man, the heart. With them we take in the things of the world in our pursuit of happiness. Whatever object we saw or new philosophy or idea we heard we took them in to see if they would quiet our soul and bring us completeness.
The driving force behind our searching is our curiosity and our covetousness. Whatever our eyes desired we kept not from them, and we received whatever fell upon our ears, in our never-ending quest for that which would make us whole.
It isn’t that the eye or the ear is never satisfied for they are only sensory organs for the inner man and are used to feed the soul in our search for gratification. They can only sense what is visible, tangible, worldly, and temporal. Therefore, it is the visible, temporal, and material that never satisfies the soul.
Solomon wrote:
“Hell and destruction are never full: so, the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
— Proverbs 27: 20
Hell, and the grave never reach the point where they say “enough” and don’t claim more victims. So, the eye of man never reaches the point where it says “enough” to the things the world has to offer.
C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
Man is never satisfied by the things of the visible world. His heart can only be completely satisfied by the things of the invisible world. And the things of the invisible world are acquired through faith in Him who is invisible. (Hebrews 11: 27) It’s the invisible world; the unseen but not unknown world that we go to by faith and receive the invisible things that satisfy the longings of our heart. It’s faith in the invisible that gives us victory over the visible. (1 John. 5: 4) Fortunately, all the cravings of the human heart are satisfied in Jesus Christ. Jesus tells us in John:
“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
— John 4: 14
