Want To Satisfy Your Thirsty Soul? - He may have been the greatest American hero of his time - his name was Meriwether Lewis. When President Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, the size of this young country was more than doubled overnight. The land stretched from the Mississippi to the Pacific, much of it known well to Native Americans but largely unknown to white Americans. Well, Jefferson tapped his personal aide and a distinguished war veteran to lead the incredible adventure we know today, of course, as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Following the long and winding route of the Missouri River, Lewis led his expedition all the way from the point where it ends near St. Louis to its headwaters in Montana. His longtime dream had been to find the source of that river and to drink from it. He got his dream. If only it had satisfied his thirst.

In a letter to a friend after he reached his pinnacle, Meriwether Lewis wrote: "I feel all that restlessness ... which I cannot help but thinking proceeds from that void in our hearts. Whence it comes I know not, but certain it is, that I never felt less like a hero than at the present moment." Shortly thereafter, Meriwether Lewis died of what is believed to be his own suicide.

He accomplished his greatest goals; he drank the sweet water of success and conquest and the admiration of thousands. But he still had not found what fills what he calls "that void in our hearts." Maybe you know that feeling. If you haven't got what you've been pursuing - whether it's a relationship, an accomplishment, a position - you think that's why that incurable restlessness is there. If you've gotten what you thought would fill the hole in your heart and the hole is still there, next stop: despair.

But the void is in our hearts is there because God isn't. There is no one else who can satisfy your thirsty soul. Beginning today, you can be thirsty no more.