A
thought by Kyle Idleman, (2015-10-01) from his book, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins (Kindle
Location 1284). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book
to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
Think
about when you are hungry and you sit down and you eat and you consume and
after about 30 minutes you lose your appetite but if you wait for about 4 hours
you feel empty, you will be hungry again.
Take
that over into stuff. Kyle says, “In
consumerism, we (of course) buy into the concept that our personal sense of
fulfillment is directly related to our ever-increasing consumption of goods. A
simpler way of saying it: if I feel a little down, I need to consume a little
more. Late at night, when I lie in bed and feel emptiness, that’s just life
telling me that someone somewhere has this new thing that I don’t yet have.
Life is a cycle of ceaseless upgrading of inventory.”
Kyle
quotes Mother Teresa who said this, “The spiritual poverty of the Western world
is much greater than the physical poverty of our people in Calcutta. You in the
West have millions of people who suffer such terrible loneliness and
emptiness.… These people are not hungry in the physical sense, but they are in
another way. They know they need something more than money, yet they don’t know
what it is. What they are missing really is a living relationship with God.”
What
if you came to the table to eat and all that was there were pictures of food?
You are so hungry so you start eating the pictures but in no way does that
satisfy your hunger. It is not the real
thing. But that is what happens when we
strive to fill our emptiness with things.
Over
in the Matthew 6:33 (NLT) it says, “Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and
live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” “He will give you everything you need.” He wants to fill that emptiness in us.
So
is what you are looking to fill your emptiness working?
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