There is a vast sucking hole in every human being, a void that needs filling. We are born with this hollow center that demands its needs be met with some kind of food and or drink, something to abate the hunger and slake the thirst. You have been hungry and thirsty, isn’t that right dear reader? Have you ever been full and kept on eating and drinking though? Have you ever felt that the void remained, despite the filling, and so you kept on trying to get that satisfaction, that stuffed-to-the-gills-can’t-take-anymore-in, sense of achievement? If you can relate to what you are reading, than I say with confidence, that your soul has experienced sickness dear one, and it may need some surgery.
The souls cravings
There are spectrums, pendulum swings, extremes, additions and negations. Adding to our bodies so that we can nullify emptiness is one of those extremes, a pendulum swing on that spectrum that throws us out of balance and destroys our sense of self-control and discipline. I see this all the time in my work, in my own life. The temptation to avoid and evade the souls cravings for filling is plain old… common place.
Drug addiction and suicide… they are now like crackers and cheese
Alcoholism and divorce… these are chips and dips
Atheism and fatherless children… steak and mashed potatoes
I will cut to the chase to make my message clear. The hunger, the thirst that we all have, is for relationship. The seeking, the not finding, the filling with anything but relationship, is devastating. The belly is always asking for more and we thirst for something, anything, to water the desert dryness of our parched spirits. The void remains, despite our landfill like abuse and disregard for what the soul, not the body, is truly craving and begging for in the form of fulfillment.
We are empty little vessels
We are empty little vessels wanting to be filled up with purpose, and as long as we seek to make it on our own, separate from one another and more profoundly, separate from the one who made each of us, we will hunger and thirst, despite the banquet before us. Me, me, me, me hungry, me thirsty… can you hear it dear one, the never ending cry from the void in each of us? Hear Jesus’ reply to our cry for food and drink:
“I am the bread that came down from heaven” (John 6:41).
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water'” (John 7:38-39).
The God of eternity says something different
You and I, we were created for relationship. Since I have you here with me now, I want you to know that you matter, that people matter, and that my existence matters because of the human beings in my life. None of any of what I wrote and you have just read, means anything, without God though, dear reader. We are here today, and gone tomorrow, according to secularism: the God of eternity says something different. We are made to glorify him, to adore and worship him, and to be in relationship with him all the days of our lives. He is the ultimate and only cure for the deadly disease of permanent emptiness. We are to get our sustenance from him.
No matter what is thrown into the abyss of the soul
Selfishness is rampant with self-indulgence killing many otherwise could be healthy and wholesome souls. Rejecting God means that the people in our lives are often next in line, and before too long, nothing really matters, nothing satisfies, and the empty feeling never leaves, no matter what is thrown into the abyss of the soul. Emptiness becomes a state of being dear one. A lonely and sad, state of being.
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I entitled this piece of writing Soul Surgery. One of the names that Jesus is known by is The Great Physician:
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3).
Might I suggest to you here and now, that your heart is hungry, that your soul is thirsty; that your very being craves the food and drink that comes only from the heavenly realms? The void in your life can be filled, and your broken heart mended. All this and much more is available to you. Why not call on God, The Great Physician, and book your soul surgery today? He is on 24 hour call, and this, your life, is an emergency.
