Can Jesus REALLY Satisfy?

I'm concerned about the terminology: "Jesus Satisfies." Is it true?

I'm not talking about the answer that one might be expected to give in Sunday School; rather, I'm interested in someone fleshing it out in real life.

The instruction given in Hebrews 13:5 ("Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'”) is an interesting perspective, once examined.

Isn't the writer saying that the way to keep one's "life free from love of money, and be content with what you have" is the presence of Jesus?

The presence of Christ - satisfying enough to cause the earthbound creature to gaze upward? Really?

Could it be that the psalmist's refrain in 16:11 is of the same tenor? He writes emoting His God-ward song to Yahweh:

• "You make known to me the path of life
• "In your presence there is fullness of joy
• "At your right hand are pleasures forevermore"

Ah, satisfaction in One who's presence gives direction, joy, and eternal pleasures.

But can one know this satisfaction fully? Are we not too distracted by life? Is not the pull of the world too strong?

Wait. Perhaps it's possible after all.

• Jesus followed to perfection the "path of life" that His Father had for Him (So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise." Matthew 5:19)
• Jesus found an other-worldly, "fullness of joy" that sustained and emboldened Him (...looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2) (That "joy set before Him" was none other than the soon coming answer to His prayer in John 17:5, "And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed." - the joy was being in the presence of His Father in full glory and communion)
• Jesus looked forward to the "eternal pleasures" perfectly ("Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world." John 17:24)

Come to think of it, maybe we can't obtain satisfaction perfectly in this life, not at all a deficiency in the Satisfier; but rather in the subjects in need of satisfaction. However, what if our pursuit of satisfaction in Jesus is enough?

Perhaps when we trip and see the earth instead of the sky, then we'll hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit: "straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” (Luke 21:28 b).

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!