EMPTINESS:QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!

Feeling spiritually empty??

What's your energy source?

What's the best long-term protocol?

How does one realize his/her emptiness? I sense mine at my core. 

How does one.........replenish one's heart?

Fuel up?

Fill up?

Power-up? 

The only answer........In Him! In Christ alone.

He is the one we we proclaim...so that we may present everyone "full" (fully mature in Christ) How grateful I am for the energy Christ "so powerfully works in me." (Colossians 1:28-29) 

Think long-term.

HS pump ---a believer's premier gas/energy station.

Holy Spirit---never runs out. Cost is free to all believers.

EMPTY YOURSELF ---DON'T CLUTCH YOUR STUFF! (Malachi 3:10)

Fill up and overflow to others!

FULLNESS IN CHRIST!

IN CHRIST!

How does one receive fullness in Christ?

The answer is through salvation in Christ Jesus.

How do others know that answer is true?

They see it in your life.

When JoLynn changed the page on the desk calendar at church today---I saw the answer!

JOY! In the life of a believer.

The above wrapped up an earlier meditation from a Puritan's prayer, "Fullness in Christ" in Valley of Vision.

"Christ has all fulness"....."to give me fullness" 

"It is my duty, out of a sense of emptiness, to go to Christ, possess, enjoy his fullness as mine, as if I had it in myself, because it is for me in him; that when I do this I am full of the Spirit,"

FULLNESS IN CHRIST!!!!!

How about "going to school of meditation" on that---it is Meditation Monday after all!

Self is Ugly!

5/25/09 SELF is Ugly! A week ago today, I confessed some self-absorption in my life---I wish that were the only time that “self” reared its ugly head. I have some deep convictions about self centeredness----I may move from teachin’ to meddlin’ here, but I think I, and many others, need a wake-up call because life is not all about us. There’s a world of hurting people out there, people with lots of baggage who could use a listening ear. But….we’re (many of us) too busy taking care of #1!

SELF is #1!

S howing E xtreme L ove F or 1st person singular, “I” --me is grammatically correct. I. ME.  Both are self-focused. "Be devoted to one another in brotherly love, give preference to one another in honor;" (Romans 12:10) Ask your self when is the last time you put someone else’s needs before your own—in an honoring way---not begrudgingly. This verse is food for thought or meditation since it’s Monday. Most think that the opposite of love is hate but in a way it’s selfishness---because you don’t have room in your heart to love others----it’s too full of SELF! 

Maybe it’s time we all ask God to free us from selfishness---empty our hearts of SELF and fill it instead with His love.