Filling up the Emptiness
Remedies promising health and wholeness abound. The search for eternal youth intensifies. Human beings living without Christ long for a completeness that somehow they know there should be yet they sense isn't there. They are conscious of something missing in their lives.
This sense of lack, of incompleteness, is a result of how we were created. We were created for fellowship with God. But as a result of the Fall, God is distant without Christ, and the unregenerate person is very often aware of it.
Once a person is saved from sin and filled with the Spirit, however, the 'lack' is filled up with God. In every dimension of our life, we begin to experience healing and wholeness. How does this happen? When the Spriit fills our life with God's presence, we feel his healthiness in every part of our life -- spiritually, morally, and mentally. Saved people recognize that they are new creations, indwelt by God himself.
Sharing God's life is exciting, exhilarating, fulfilling, satisfying--it makes the incompleteness complete. But then, we should expect that to be the case. We were made by God, but because of sin we lost God, so we should expect that we would experience a haunting sense of loss. You can be full of yourself, full of good intentions, full of pleasures, full of ambition and drive and yet at the end of the day find yourself as empty as a drum. To be a partaker of the very nature of God, however, means sharing in the divine fullness-- and there is no fullness like God's fullness! The apostle John said, "Of His fullness we have all received"(John 1:16). John was talking to those who have recognized their fallenness and exchangd it for his fullness! "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and by him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of his blood on the cross. This includes you" (Col. 1: 19-21).
Do you have a busy life but still feel empty? Through Christ you have been reconciled to God; through Christ you can have peace with God. You were made by God for God. The remedy that gives health and wholeness is in God's fullness!
I hope you're all having a full and blessed week!!
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