Are you feeling like Naomi today? Have your life’s losses been so significant that you think there is nothing left for you here? Do you feel empty and bitter about your situation? Look to Jesus! Receive His invitation to come home to Your Redeemer and be filled with the good and eternal things that He provides (Luke 1:53). Lift your empty heart to Him and wait; at the proper time, He will fill you to overflowing (Psalm 23:5).
Are you lacking purpose and asking yourself, “What’s the point?” Do you feel that your endeavors are meaningless? Does everything disappoint and leave you wanting? Turn from your empty cisterns (Jeremiah 2:13) and look to Jesus your fountain of life (Psalm 36:8-9).
Take time to be still and fix your eyes, your heart, and your thoughts on Jesus right now. See Him taking your emptiness upon Himself, see Him bearing the weight of your pain. See Him all alone, emptying Himself for you, dying your death. See him thirsting and enduring the agony of eternal craving so that you might experience fullness and liberty in Him. He abandoned all for you - His royalty, His rights, His freedom, His life, and His Spirit - so that you would be filled with His Spirit, His love, His wisdom, and His life (Colossians 1:9, Ephesians 1:23, Ephesians 3:19).
Oh, friend, Jesus is your Good Shepherd! He has laid down His life so that you will not be empty and wanting (Psalm 23:1) but rather seated at His table, feasting with your cup overflowing (Psalm 23:5). When feelings of emptiness intrude, look to Jesus and remember His body broken for you and His blood poured out for you, for as you do, you will experience His Holy Spirit pouring love into your heart (Romans 5:5) and filling you so that you can sing with the psalmist:
“Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name, I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips, my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.” Psalm 63:3-8
Question: How does it fill your heart when you look at Jesus emptying Himself on the cross for you?
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Gary writes, "Knowing how much He has done for me on the cross, and how much He cares, and how much He gives to me, replaces emptiness with fulfillment."
Sophia writes, "It is a terrible thing to feel empty and meaningless, without direction in this world. But oftentimes, I can echo exactly what Solomon Says in Ecclesiastes. Emptiness of Emptiness!! Everything under the sun is meaningless and empty. Thank you God for bringing meaning into this world. You came to the earth and brought with you such grace and mercy. You came and emptied your own self by taking the form of a servant and being obedient even to the death of the cross so that I could be filled with all the fullness of God! (literally filled with the holy spirit- God himself!)."
Jen writes, "He emptied Himself so I could be full! Such love and devotion; greater than anyone or anything could give me!"
Mike L. writes, "It is overwhelming to know that I am loved so much, honestly I can only imagine what heaven is like with my finite mind, but Jesus left His home to come to this wretched place (comparatively) to be betrayed, beaten, crucified, because of my sin. This is crazy love, what He went through so that I could someday be with Him forever, gives me such hope, joy and a longing for heaven! Lord Jesus thank you for emptying Yourself so that I could be full. Come Lord Jesus Come!!"