Do you ever feel empty – like there’s nothing in you
anymore? Sometimes I do. It’s like my heart doesn’t have any energy to
live or love, or even feel.
But today I want to look at that feeling – that feeling of
emptiness in a different way. I feel that being empty is not always a bad
thing. because we find that
when we’re empty
handed, God fills our hands.
when we can’t do
something, God can do anything.
when we don’t have the
strength, God does. w
hen we're empty we find that we depend
on, and get to know our loving Father.
 When I think about being empty, I think about a cup of coffee. I love
my coffee. If the cup is ½ full and it’s been sitting
around and cooled off, when we fill it up with fresh hot coffee – it makes
all the coffee in the cup luke-warm.
But when the cup is empty and we fill it with fresh hot coffee – it’s
wonderful.
So maybe we need to empty
ourselves – to get rid of the idea that we can handle things without God’s
help.
We
struggle to solve our problems ourselves, when resting on God’s goodness and love is really what we need to do.
So much of the time we have the
idea that we can do it on our own.
Maybe when we realize that we don’t have the answer to the troubles
that haunt us – when we realize that our storehouse is pretty empty, then we
can open our hearts and minds to what God wants us to know so that He can
fill us.
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When you think you’re
in control, you become so full of yourself that there is no room for God to
come into your heart and fill you.
We read in John 4 that Jesus talked to a woman at the well. When He asked her for a drink, and she
wondered why He, a Jewish man, would ask her, a Samaritan woman for water, this
is what John writes.
Jesus answered her. "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
“Sir,” the woman said,
“you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this
living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the
well and drank from it himself,. . . ?”
Jesus
answered, “Everyone who drinks this water (in the well) will be thirsty
again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never
thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of
water welling up to eternal life.”
Jesus said that if we
fill ourselves with Him, we will never be empty. He will become our
spring of water welling up to eternal life. As we fill our minds
with the knowledge of our Savior, as we trust in Him to provide Love, and
friendship, comfort, strength and peace, we will feel the warmth of His
unfailing care and we will be filled.
Empty is when there is nothing left but God and
you discover that God is all you need.
Well
my friend there is an answer to the yearning for a meaning,for
a reason - for a purpose. The answer
comes in emptiness.
That
empty place within your heart -
unoccupied
by pride in self,
is
ready now for Christ to fill,
is
ready now to know His will.
Unless
we give control to Him
the
zest for life is stilled.
Unless
we know our helplessness
we
never will be filled.
Excerpts from a Touching Lives devotion by Diane April 2015
