Proverbs 27:20

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about desires:

Proverbs 27:20 (NASBStr)

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,

Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Proverbs 27:20 (AMP)

Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the place of destruction) are never satisfied; so [the lust of] the eyes of man is never satisfied.

Proverbs 27:20 (ESV)

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,

and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

The other day a 50 foot wooden cruise boat named, "The Pilgrim" caught my eye.   The wood work alone was enough to make you stare.  But, it was also outfitted with gold plating on every window, door or fixture.  Even the anchor was gold plated.   It was probably brass but from a distance, through my binoculars it looked like gold.   I was sitting on my own 42 foot boat, that is both our home and love.   Others, when we are out, stare at our boat.   You get the point.   Solomon is telling us that, like death and destruction, our lust is never satisfied.  We want what we don't have, or can't have, and we want what we don't need.  The eyes of man ... the portal for his lusts ... are always open and scanning the horizon to see what more is there.   We have car shows and bike shows and clothes shows and department stores full of things for us to behold with our eyes.  Commercials and marketing ads rely on the truth of this proverb to attract our wandering eyes to get us to respond to the lusts and buy.   We will never be satisfied.   Our eyes continue to take it all in.  It is only through Christ that we can be fully satisfied.  The heart of faith fills us with the glory of God that we will one day see complete.   It is through faith that God will take away the lust of the eyes to provide the satisfaction of the soul.