“…his soul is empty…”~ Isa. 29:9
“…they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.”~ Jer. 14:3
You would think an article by this title need only be written exclusively to the unregenerate. But shamefully, I have learned, it is a proven fact this is also true of many Christians. But whether saved or lost, there’s one telling characteristic in each instance of their emptiness, an insatiable need to fill a mysterious void in their lives.
People who possess this kind of vacuum, generally sense a main ingredient is missing, which they believe can alone make up the whole of their life. Therefore, they’re constantly looking for something or someone to fill this hollowness. But find to their dismay, no matter what it is, it is never enough; satisfaction is only for a brief time. They’re still left wanting. Their lives are like a vacant house. Have you noticed there is sadness, a certain depression, about an empty house; it was built to be inhabited.
Saint Augustine writes in his Confessions, “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
God created man that He might fill every aspect of his life, but the ingrate kicked, so to speak, the owner out of his own house. Since then, mankind has been walking through dry places seeking fulfillment, but finding none. Sometimes ending up seven times worse than when he began.
Jesus Christ came into this world and emptied Himself, that we might be filled with all the fullness of God. If we will but relinquish what we believe is our right to His property, and place it once again back into His hands, as Stuart Hamblen’s song goes, He will fill “This Old House.” No matter in what condition we’ve let it become!
by an Aged Saint
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