Filled

I think sometimes we get this picture of life and say things such as: “there is a God-shaped vacuum in all of us and until we allow God that place in our lives, it will always be empty.” And then, when we’re talking to teenagers [especially], we add tag-lines like: “Now sometimes we try to fill that void with other things...family and friends or drugs, alcohol, and sex...but they are only partial fillers. Like misfit puzzles pieces...”

And so, in some ways, we start each day with a calculator. And we begin tallying up what fills us and what is left over for God in order to make our misfit pieces allow no empty spaces and no unforgotten holes....

“Family and friends are great...so we’re up 34%. And when you add in the fact it is pay day...now we can bump that to 42%. And classes are busy but satisfying so I guess that puts me around 59%...”

And we go on like this with our proverbial calculator, tallying our totals and cutting our losses and then after we have our figure, we let God know where He needs to step in and step up.

“Well God, looks I need you for the top 20 today...”

Or maybe it’s been a little rougher of a day and we call out “It’s up to you today Jesus! You’re need to take the whole bottom half!”

And still other times we are feeling so empty that our God-assignment is a desperate pleat. “Father, You’re going to have fill in just about 92% if I’m even going to make the cut today...”

And on each occasion we go confident God will fill us to the measure.

But are we looking at things backwards? Do we not need to come to a different understanding? An understanding where we come to God each morning empty and make the humble plea “If I be anything today it is because I know you fill me to the measure and the overflowing. You are more than enough for me...”

If we are going to claim God is more than enough for us then we need to stop allowing Him to “fill in the cracks”. God is single-handedly able and desirous of filling to overflowing and then He STILL allows the blessing which leave it so the “cup runneth over”. Would we come up dehydrated and thirsty so often if we were compelled to start a foundation on the well that does not run dry?