Our Lord Filling the Void
Written by Andrea W.

 

I have felt impressed to share with you a bit of my past, and how God has taught me through it. I am not sure where this will lead but my thought in what God wants me to write is about God filling the void in our hearts when we lose something close to us. I lost something close to me; well I thought he was close to me, but God soon showed me that I was blind to that fact that I was being used!

In the year 2000, I met a young man and over the matter of 5 ½ years we grew close. Neither of our parents knew about our relationship and how we were living in sin. In 2006 I went to an all-girls school where I was secluded from the outside world expect for my family and letters that came in from selected people that my parents knew. I felt God working in my heart and leading me, through many different situations and people in my life, to end the relationship that was put “on hold” while I was at school. I then decided that I would just no longer communicate with him, I could not write him and tell him. I then prayed that God would break the soul tie between us. He in all His mercy and love allowed me to separate my heart from this young man, but then I came to the problem of having a void in my life and heart that I did not know how to fill.

I have witnessed in God’s Word that when we give something up we MUST fill it with another thing. That is just the fact of life. When we give up caffeine we have to have something else to replace that craving such as water, or another drink, or we will return to our rut of being addicted to the caffeine. The same is with the things in our heart. When I was in the relationship with this young man I had a part of my “heart” given to him, so when I took it back, I needed to have it occupied with another person, so to speak. I quickly learned that the only person that could fill that part of my heart was God.

I found that spending that time in the morning with Him was the most important thing I could do to turn my attention to my Lord. When I would skip that time, I would find myself distracted with memories and thoughts of my wrong relationship. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Phil. 4:8). Our thoughts need to be turned to our Lord not the things of the world.

The one thing I had to remember every day was that our God is a forgiving God. When we ask for forgiveness, He lovingly and mercifully forgives and forgets. At that point it turns to us: we have to forgive ourselves and know that God is filling that void and allowing us to move on in our lives, living for Him! We cannot allow ourselves to go back in the rut of filling that void with the pervious thing, just like the caffeine, or even allowing ourselves to slip into depression! It is so important to keep our eyes on God and live a joyful life in Him not allowing Satan to win the battle in our heart!

Sisters in Christ keep looking to our Father in Heaven. He desires to be your Beloved friend and All in All!! Allow Him in your heart to love you, as He so desires! “That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Eph 3:16-19)