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|  | A GOD-SHAPED HOLE
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A GOD-SHAPED HOLE
There’s a God-shaped hole in all of us
And the restless soul is searching
There’s a God-shaped hole in all of us
And it’s a void only He can fill.
The vacuous and empty place of the soul that plagues so many people we see today, is actually a God-shaped hole — a void, an emptiness, that only God can fill. So many folks try to fill it with false saviors — drugs and alcohol, work and accomplishment, status and prestige, power and influence, even religion. But, there is only one source of relief for this empty pit--God!
When Paul addressed the wise debaters in Athens, he told them:
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and ... gives all men life and breath and everything else.. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’” (Acts 17:24-28).
He made us with a soul that is restless, until it rests in Him.
In other words, God made us with an emptiness (it’s a hole that God shaped) that only our Eternal Father can fill (it’s shaped in a way that only God can fit and finish). You see, the Creator wanted us to go in search of Him and find Him. He made us with an ache whose only salve is Himself. He made us with a soul that is restless, until it rests in Him.
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The words above are extracted from this website. If you click on the link below you can read the entire article:
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200012/20001225_godshapedhole.html
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