Jeremiah 2:5 Do You Ever Feel Empty?
You look at life and you think why I am here? Life has no meaning. It has no purpose. So many lives are empty because they are walking after emptiness. Jer. 2:5 says, “Thus says the Lord, ‘What injustice did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and walked after emptiness and became empty.’”
There are empty places in our lives that only God can fill and yet we turn away from Him and try to fill those empty places with things of this world; with idols. An idol is defined as anything that gets between you and God. Jeremiah 1:16 tells us that the people had deserted God, they had worshiped idols and they had worshiped the works of their own hands therefore, they were left empty.
The truth is emptiness is caused by the lack of God in your life.
It’s when we turn from God to our own things, to our own goals and own ambitions that we become empty. Many times we blame our emptiness on our past. But your past does not define you. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are the way that you are because of your past. You are the way that you are because of the choices you’ve made. If you go after emptiness, you will find yourself empty. That is just a fact. You might say, “But my past was horrible, it damaged me.” You don’t have to consider yourself damaged goods because God is in the business of healing. “Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for You are my praise,” (Jer. 17:14).
We can get so busy running here, doing this and doing that that we wear ourselves out and we neglect God. We are tired and exhausted. We are so busy going after the works of our own hands; we end up worshiping those works instead of making God our praise. Consequently, we create a void in our lives because we have walked after emptiness. But when we make God our praise, when we keep our eyes on Him and think about those things that are true, noble just, pure, lovely, of good report . . . (Phil. 4:8-10) then God’s peace will be with us and we will no longer walk after emptiness but instead, we will be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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