OUR GOD-SIZED HOLE!

Adam and Eve walked and talked with God, they fellowshipped with Him in the garden, they were made perfect because they were in His presence and God was with them. From the moment that Adam and Eve allowed sin to enter into the human race, we humans have been searching, searching, searching for something, anything, that would fill the God-sized hole that is inherent in all humans.

After Adam and Eve blew it for all of us in the garden, God still wanted a relationship with His creation and so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to be sacrificed as the sacrificial lamb whose blood would cleanse us of our sins. People still needed a sign, they still needed to fill that God-sized hole and so God foretold in Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” Immanuel means God with Us! How much more plainer can God get? God has never left us, He has always been with us, but still we search and we search looking for something to fill our God-sized hole.

From the moment that God breathed life into Adam, He has always been with His creation. Many times we may feel like God has abandoned us and is not with us, but if you think about it long and hard enough, you will come to the conclusion that it is really us that has abandoned God. We work so hard to fill that God-sized hole within us that we can’t see the forest for the trees so to speak.

Last week I was watching a Christmas movie and this young teenage girl was transported to a large empty room so that her guardian angel could speak to her. This girl asked the angel if he was God and then she said “I’ve been good, I’ve really, really tried to be good!” As I think back to that I’m amazed at how Satan has turned the world’s thoughts away from God and His plan of salvation and watered it down to just....I’ve been a good person! Instead of turning to God’s Word for answers, people would rather listen to Satan’s “It’s all about me” prideful attitude. But in the end, they still can’t fill the God-sized hole.

There is only one way to salvation and that is through the tiny baby Jesus that God sent to us over two thousand years ago. The world and Satan have tried to fill our God-sized hole with feel good religions, “it’s all about me” attitudes and one popular thing after another. But there is only one way to salvation, only one way to heaven, only one way to fill the God-sized hole that is in all of us and that is through Jesus Christ. “The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." John 3:35-36 (NIV)

As you celebrate this Christmas season, please don’t get caught up in Satan’s lie, it's not about us! In fact there is nothing that we can do. We can’t fill our God-sized holes, only God can! This week as you make the final preparations for your Christmas celebration, don’t get so caught up in the lights and glitter and stress that you forget the gift God gave to us, the gift of salvation through His precious Son Jesus Christ!

Dear Father,
Thank you Lord so much for your Son Jesus Christ! Father, I come to You on behalf of all those who are reading this post and especially for those who have not accepted Your Son as their Savior. Satan makes it so enticing for people to let their pride get in the way of their salvation and to think like the teenage girl in the movie that just being good is enough. It’s not about being good, it’s not about us but it is all about Your Son Jesus. As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, help us to keep in perspective the gift of salvation that you gave to us and not what the world has made Christmas to be.

To find out more about receiving Jesus Christ as your personal Savior please read our blog titled New Life in Christ (April 2, 2010).

All verses from the New International Version
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