How are you doing this morning, good and Blessed I hope? Are you having a good week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed Thursday and rest of the week too!
God Bless You and Yours!
“I have come that you might have life – life in its fullness.” John 10:10 TEV.
Life without Jesus will never be all you long for life to be.
My thoughts and comments today are about “Empty Lives.”
By Pastor Allen Randolph
Remember when life was exciting, exhilarating, and filled with anticipation? Christmas as a child – first day of school – first date – finally, your driver’s license – falling in love? But everyday life doesn’t always feel that way. Routines and responsibilities wear away a little of the mysteries and wonder each day.
School becomes homework and hard work. Dating becomes complicated, even confusing. A driver’s license involves gasoline, and insurance, and repairs. Falling in love eventually brings rent or mortgage, and bills.
Too soon, spontaneity yields to a schedule that becomes repetitive, and you find yourself trudging through life feeling that emptiness – a sense of “same old, same old” – with something deep inside telling you that life is not meant to be that way. That experience is not because of what you put into your life, as much as what you may have left out of your life. Jesus replaces empty lives with full hearts.
Life without Jesus as its center will never be all that you long for life to be. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can take His place or fill that void. You see, that void, that emptiness you feel in your soul runs so deep. You cannot mask emptiness with stuff; you cannot silence it with noise; you cannot ignore it with busyness.
Francis Schaeffer, noted theologian and Christian philosopher, wrote, “Man has a purpose – to be in relationship with God . . when he forgets his purpose he forgets who he is and what life means.” Life will not work well when you forget who you are and what life means.
Life cannot be what it is meant to be, when you leave God out. God alone makes sense of everything else about your life. The Bible says that Jesus “came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10 NKJV. God makes what you have enough. God makes friendships and relationships enriching. God makes who you are meaningful and satisfying. God makes what you do fulfilling. God fills your future with hope and unlimited possibilities. See Jeremiah 29:11 NLT.
The Bible narrative begins with these words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void, and darkness covered . . and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2 NKJV. That is the way anyone’s life is until Jesus is invited to come in and set it right, and fill it with life and fullness, and give light and understanding. He is there, just waiting for your invitation to do so today, and every day that follows.
Here’s how the Apostle Paul described filling the void of an empty heart and an empty life, “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you . . know the love of Christ that passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Read Ephesians 3:14-19 NKJV. Don’t try to live life – even a moment of it – without Jesus filling your heart.
Today, my prayer for you is: make room for Jesus in everything and all times.
K-Love’s Encouraging Words:
You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.
Psalm 16:11 (NLT)
Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ!
~Long Live Real Cowboys~
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