Are you still tolerating the void?
Each day we live opens up opportunities for us to choose what we will allow to fill our hearts and minds.
The choices we make as great as they may be or how desrtructive they may be, all have consequences, whether good or bad.
Perhaps this may be the answer to some of the questions why so many young people do things that just boggle the mind, leaving us wondering...why would they choose to do such a thing? It seems that they are lacking a mechanism yet to be developed
in their minds, to the affect that they do not realize that their are consequences to the choices they make.
We all know as well that adults sometimes are just as vulnerable to choose sins of the flesh, knowing the risks they take in making wrong choices.
Unfortunately, the world has promised satisfaction if you follow it's temporary pleasures.
Most of us know by now that it's claims are misleading and destructive. To those who choose to follow the course of this world, the heart becomes void, yet they continue to attempt to fill the void with more of the same stuff that has never worked to satisfy
the longing in their lives for some sort of purpose.
We could also apply these truths to those who are seeking to be fulfilled by religions that offer no real source of joy that fulfills the heart. These efforts can also create a void in your heart that is never filled by the same repetitive traditions of man.
With all the wealth of the riches of God's word, why would you continue to tolerate the void in your heart when He is showing you the way out?
Excerpt from my book "Are you saved or deceived?"
Prior to the salvation of our souls, we all have been molded into our own particular lifestyles. Mostly by our own choices and decisions we have made with our own free will, as we so desired. As a result, most of us have had many habits and addictions that have had very negative affects on our lives. You and I just simply have had a bad heart. We may have been selfish, thinking only about what we wanted in life. We may have had bad addictions such as smoking cigarettes and marijuana. Some of us have given ourselves to alcoholism, drugs, sex, pornography, homosexuality, pride and various forms of lust. These few passages of scripture describe the condition of our hearts before we gave our heart to Jesus, and now are trusting in Him to give us new desires and a new heart as He has promised. Most of the scripture references I am sharing are from the New American Standard version of the Bible.
Ephesians 2:1-6 “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins. In which you formally walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them, we too all formally lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind and by nature were children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
What a vivid description of our hearts before and after salvation. This is an invisible battle for our hearts and souls. That is why we must rely on God and believe in His word to change our hearts. His word brings us out of the darkness our hearts have been in and into His light so as to understand how to live differently by faith and to know that we can live free from the sins that have controlled our lives for all these years. I believe that God’s purpose is that you would understand His desire for you to be called out of darkness, and to expose our inability to resolve the consequences of sin in our own strength.
This is His way of showing you His unending love for you. It is up to you to believe. If you are still not saved you may be trying every worldly pleasure available to fill the void that you have in your spirit. Yet with every passing day, the more you try to fill the void with sinful pleasures, the more empty you become. What you are looking for is reality which you will never find in worldly pleasures or powerless religions, but in a relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. No amount of religion, self works or self righteousness can fill your void. No amount of worldly pleasures, no matter how good it feels, can fill your void. This is the will of God, that you be filled to all the fullness of God. This is God’s promise for you for the asking, that you be filled with His Spirit. That’s the promise of His word.
The choices we make as great as they may be or how desrtructive they may be, all have consequences, whether good or bad.
Perhaps this may be the answer to some of the questions why so many young people do things that just boggle the mind, leaving us wondering...why would they choose to do such a thing? It seems that they are lacking a mechanism yet to be developed
in their minds, to the affect that they do not realize that their are consequences to the choices they make.
We all know as well that adults sometimes are just as vulnerable to choose sins of the flesh, knowing the risks they take in making wrong choices.
Unfortunately, the world has promised satisfaction if you follow it's temporary pleasures.
Most of us know by now that it's claims are misleading and destructive. To those who choose to follow the course of this world, the heart becomes void, yet they continue to attempt to fill the void with more of the same stuff that has never worked to satisfy
the longing in their lives for some sort of purpose.
We could also apply these truths to those who are seeking to be fulfilled by religions that offer no real source of joy that fulfills the heart. These efforts can also create a void in your heart that is never filled by the same repetitive traditions of man.
With all the wealth of the riches of God's word, why would you continue to tolerate the void in your heart when He is showing you the way out?
Excerpt from my book "Are you saved or deceived?"
Prior to the salvation of our souls, we all have been molded into our own particular lifestyles. Mostly by our own choices and decisions we have made with our own free will, as we so desired. As a result, most of us have had many habits and addictions that have had very negative affects on our lives. You and I just simply have had a bad heart. We may have been selfish, thinking only about what we wanted in life. We may have had bad addictions such as smoking cigarettes and marijuana. Some of us have given ourselves to alcoholism, drugs, sex, pornography, homosexuality, pride and various forms of lust. These few passages of scripture describe the condition of our hearts before we gave our heart to Jesus, and now are trusting in Him to give us new desires and a new heart as He has promised. Most of the scripture references I am sharing are from the New American Standard version of the Bible.
Ephesians 2:1-6 “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins. In which you formally walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them, we too all formally lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind and by nature were children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
What a vivid description of our hearts before and after salvation. This is an invisible battle for our hearts and souls. That is why we must rely on God and believe in His word to change our hearts. His word brings us out of the darkness our hearts have been in and into His light so as to understand how to live differently by faith and to know that we can live free from the sins that have controlled our lives for all these years. I believe that God’s purpose is that you would understand His desire for you to be called out of darkness, and to expose our inability to resolve the consequences of sin in our own strength.
This is His way of showing you His unending love for you. It is up to you to believe. If you are still not saved you may be trying every worldly pleasure available to fill the void that you have in your spirit. Yet with every passing day, the more you try to fill the void with sinful pleasures, the more empty you become. What you are looking for is reality which you will never find in worldly pleasures or powerless religions, but in a relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. No amount of religion, self works or self righteousness can fill your void. No amount of worldly pleasures, no matter how good it feels, can fill your void. This is the will of God, that you be filled to all the fullness of God. This is God’s promise for you for the asking, that you be filled with His Spirit. That’s the promise of His word.
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