My pastor once told us that humans are like empty olive shoots... They are built and created with an emptiness within them that long to be filled with something.. Some people fill their lives up with work.. some with looking after their families.. some with passions like taekwondo and ballet.. Most of us try to fill up that void with love....
That is in fact.. the wisest choice.. For love is what we need to be filled up with.. But not the love of man.. but the love of God.. When our emptiness and hollow centers are filled with God, we become less self obsessed... We become able to love others.. with the same love that God loved us with.. (Please note that God loved us enough to send his beloved son to die for us)... It is the love of God that completes us..
Sadly, so many of us try and endeavor to fill that emptiness with human love... We long to be loved greatly by another human... we pick potential boy/girlfriends based on their ability to make us feel loved... and because of that.. we become unpleasantly too attached to these people as we so desperately need their presence and attention to fill that emptiness within us..
This is precisely why kids long for attention from their parents.. their teachers.. their peers.. even kids have an emptiness within them.. that screams out for attention...
For me.. the sad truth is that despite having God in my life, I am not always 100% filled with God.. and sometimes (as much as 50% of the time), I forgot that that emptiness has to be filled by Jesus and God alone and not by man... This is when I become needy and attention seeking. This is when I become immensely lonely and depressed.. This is when I helplessly desperately start missing the only person who was ever so close to filling up that void in me...
I hope I never knew him.. I hope that God removes the memory of him from my head.. and completely fills that void within me so that I will never miss him so much ever again..
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Hey Denise, saw the address on your Facebook page and thought I'd stop by...
There's an old joke where a lawyer says:
"Sometimes I ask the defendant: 'Do you have access to a defence lawyer?' and he answers: 'Jesus Christ is my shield and defender.'. My next question is: 'Do you have local counsel?'"
Human love's important in that it reflects God's, and it's through other human beings that we find practical means to help each other and ourselves, as means to express His love. God made us for company and fellowship from the very beginning; in Eden, Israel, the early church, always and everywhere.
To love God and neighbour is the entire Law and the Prophets. It's well-nigh impossible this side of eternity... but that doesn't mean His followers can't try. -- ZP
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