Hole In Your Heart

There is a hole in every person's heart, a space that needs to be filled, but this space can only be filled with one thing. This void is something everybody wants to fill and they try to fulfill it in every other way. What is that one thing, you may ask? Well let us try and discover that together. 

Though people won't admit it, that space can only be filled with one thing and that is the love of God. God has created in each of us a desire to be loved and to have love, He has also put in our hearts a need for Him, although people don't admit that is exactly what they are looking for.

People go around the world looking for different things to do to fill that gap in their heart. Maybe they try to overwork themselves, maybe they fill it with family, a vacation, or with some other activity that they really like. But no matter how much they try to run away from the fact they are feeling empty, nothing will take that emptiness away.

God has a special ability to plug up that hole with a special plug which is called love. When a person accepts God in their heart it fills them up with something unexpected, it makes them completely whole. You don't have a hole in your heart any more because now you have become whole!

God lets us decide what we want to do; He does not force us to fill that void in our hearts with Him. If we want, we can experiment first; God is a loving God that is why He made us free creatures and independent to choose what we want to do. Although He wants us to fill that emptiness with His love He will not force us.

Time is getting shorter though, so we won't have that much longer to make a decision for good. You may think that you have all the time in the world to experiment and come to God at a later date, but we don't know what the future may hold for us. We could get into a tragic accident and die tomorrow, or even this very day. That is why we must come to Jesus as soon as possible so that if anything were to happen, our hearts will be right with God.

Although the Lord will not force you to come to Him, He will plead with you every single moment and every single day to come to Him so that He may take your burden. Jesus doesn't want any of us to perish and that is why the world has held on this long, He is giving each of us a chance to choose and the choice is entirely up to us. There is no time like the present, for tomorrow is not guaranteed.

Have you filled that hole in your heart yet? It's not too late, it is never too late to fill that hole properly, to fill it with the love of God. Don't let whatever you have done discourage you; God is a great forgiver and He has love that is bigger than the ocean.

I don't want to have a hole in my heart, I want to have a whole heart, don't you?

Take My Yoke

In this world there are many trials and tribulations, Jesus wanted us to know that no matter what that He was there for us and not only that He wanted to take that burden off of our shoulders. Like it says in Matthew 11:28 - 30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Sometimes in life we are so caught up in our problems and we even think ours are to hard to bare. In many instances if we had the option of going through someone else's problems and struggles we wouldn't be so hasty to get rid of our own, we would actually want to have our own.

There is this story of this preacher who had a dream one night. In this dream he saw all of his parishioners were carrying crosses, he called out to one of his elders and asked where everyone was going. He replied that they were carrying crosses and to pick up his cross on the side of the church.

So the pastor went to the side of the church to discover what he thought was the largest of the crosses, and the heaviest. He picked it up and began to carry it and as he looked around he thought that everyone had a smaller than his. Well he put his cross down and decided that it wouldn't hurt a little bit if he would cut off just a bit of his cross, so he got a saw and cut about an inch off the cross.

Well he kept on going down the road and as he went down every few feet he would cut of an inch or two. Well eventually he got to a place where he saw everyone ahead of him putting there cross over this gap in the road, and the road would expand or deplete according to the size of the cross that they had carried. He was kind of nervous when he saw that.

Well finally it came time for his turn and he saw that the gap became larger and larger and his cross would never get him across the gap. He wanted to get across, for across that gap was Jesus Himself. He turned to see if he could ask someone for a new cross one to fill the gap, an angel told him that he had his cross but he did not want the trials or sufferings and had kept cutting off his cross, the angel told him that he had more responsibility because he was in charge of a precious flock, peoples lives.

When the pastor awoke he realized his responsibility, he repented to God for lacking in it and accepted his cross and asked God to help him carry the burden. This is what we must do, Jesus is offering to take our yoke and to take our burden if we let Him. Will we let Him have our yoke?

If we give Him our yoke He will put His on our shoulder and He told us that His burden is light. We must pray and ask for Him to take our burdens than we would truly be free.

Won't you let Him take your yoke? I want Him to take mine!