St. Augustine once stated in his prayer of Confessions, “O Lord, you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you”. I think this is a perfect depiction of how humans are in relation to how God created us to be filled with His spirit. Plantinga wrote on this phenomenon and how it affects people who try to fill the void for God with earthly pleasures instead. Galatians 2:20 states, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” When we live according to Christ and his plan for us, God sends his spirit to fill the void God placed within us that can only be filled with him.
Looking at the world today, my heart is full of grief. Every day, I see people trying to fill their void with meaningless things of this world. They try using sex, money, love, friends, alcohol, drugs etc. Ultimately, only God can fill the void He made in us. C.S. Lewis states that “we are full of yearnings, sometimes shy and sometimes passionate, that point us beyond the things of earth to the ultimate reality of God.” God yearns for us to cling to Him. Nothing else can fill the void He has so desperately placed in each of our lives.
All humans hope and long for things to make life on this earth worth living. Martin Luther King Jr. hoped for a day when his four children would “live in a nation where they [would] be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Dr. King held on to the biblical truth that God had laid out that all people are brothers and sisters in Christ. He filled the void he had with God’s truth and strength which made him stand up for what he believed to be true.
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