Tag: worthy

The God Void Part II

Jennifred Jones

This void will be filled…by something!

You will, we will seek to fill it. Holes are meant to be filled. We don’t like holes in things.

Roads get potholes. Woodwork has holes. Clothing gets holes. Even our yard gets holes from groundhogs and rodents. These all have to be filled somehow.

There are many things people use in an attempt to fill their ‘God-hole’. New stuff, activities, church, totem poles, meditation, the universe, spiritism, crystals, or something they have made themselves.

None of these things are made of the same material as you are. These artificial filler materials we try to use will pop loose and fail in the long run. The hole will still be there. God wants to fill the hole with worthy sturdy long lasting material. He wants to fill it with Himself. I know it sounds crazy. We can’t understand it, but when this hole is filled, you’ll never feel the same again.

There will be scars around the edges where the hole once was, but you’ve been made whole and stronger actually than you were before. You won’t have to seek filler materials for the hole you once had. Because you are whole.

The Cheerful Giver

Jennifred Jones

It’s been said true giving is a sacrifice, it should be hard, something you don’t want to do… give something you don’t want to… or aren’t really able to give….to prove you are a sacrificial giver.

Yet — giving is really a heart thing!

You can’t make someone love another person. You can’t make yourself love someone you don’t.

You can’t make yourself want to want to give.

If we give something and we don’t really want to is it a good thing? Is it an acceptable ‘sacrifice’? Does it make it worthy and acceptable because we gave against our will?

I think God is more interested in our heart than he is in our gift—to him or anybody else!

It’s a pliability of our heart where God will give us a thought to do something for someone, send a care package to a friend, bake a dish for a neighbor, buy the meal for the car behind you at McDonalds….and you have almost an ecstatic feeling to do it.

That’s the cheerful heart I’m talking about.

That removes us from the ‘works’ category… doing it ‘because I have to’, or ‘it’s my duty’ … a drudgery type ‘giving’.

This cheerful heart and willing-giving will come as we change how we see the world, other people, even ourselves.

Oh God, help me see the good instead of the other…