Jesus is the Bridegroom

"Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, 'Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?' And Jesus said to them, 'Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is take away from them, and then they will fast in that day.'"

-- Mark 2:18-20, ESV

This is from the footnote in my bible:

"Jesus refers to himself as the bridegroom, who in the Old Testament was the Lord. While Jesus is present with his disciples, they are to rejoice; when he is taken way from them...then they will fast. They will then return to the practice of fasting to seek the presence of God, but they need not to do that when Jesus, the Son of God, is with them. 'Taken away' is an indirect prediction of Jesus' death."


This passage for some reason stuck out to me, but once I read the footnote, I knew why. It is amazing. This is just another passage where we are shown that Jesus is our everything, and we don't need anything else to satisfy us. He is our satisfaction. When we truly experience the Lord, and all that He is, we will need nothing. Nothing in this world satisfies us like our Father does. But we live in this world where we are told that earthly things will fulfill our desires and needs. It is hard to throw things away that we "need" or have always lived with. But how many of these things are holding us back from God and not allowing us to experience everything that He is trying to give us? Jesus is our all, everything that we need. He paid it all for us, so that we would be saved and satisfied. Why do we constantly run away, and try to find other things instead of running to the One who died to satisfy?

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." 

-- Philippians 4:4