Feeling Empty inside?

No matter what you do, do you feel like you are missing something? No matter how much you collect, how many friends you have, how much shopping you do. Do you still feel like there should be more in your life? Do you ever feel lonely in a crowd? Feel like you may be smiling on the outside but frowning on the inside?

Maybe you are in a relationship and it is the same old thing. Problems that just don’t seem to go away. Tired of the rut you seem to be in? You keep working and working and just don’t seem to feel fulfilled. Ever ask yourself why?

Maybe you changed jobs, changed locations, changed the people in your life. Left a marriage, sold your collection, did something, anything to make yourself feel better only to find out it did not work. Have you thought maybe that there is something inside of you that needs to change?

Perhaps you are blaming those around you for the fact you are not happy. If I could just do this, or have that or go here or there, then I would be happy. And you work for that and get it and still you are not happy. Ever wonder why?

You might be consumed with trying to feel better. Consumed to the point you make everyone around you miserable and in your mind, you are perfectly right to feel the way you do. You might even have people around you calling you selfish. You might realize that your entire life is centered totally or mostly around you making you feel better. And you are not happy…why?

Watch any TV commercial and its only purpose is to make you think you need to buy something to feel better. Watch TV programs and see how much the program centers around doing something that makes someone happy. Having it their way. The nature of a TV show is to give you a problem and solve it in a half hour, hour or maybe two hours. Life is just not that simple, but on TV it is.

First you have to understand just who you are. Ask yourself something... Are you an arm? A leg? A stomach? Who are you? Are you your body? Or are you living in that body? Stop and think about this. You look in the mirror and see a reflection of the body you are living in. But you are not that body, you only live in it.

If you look back in first book of the Old Testament… We are created in the image of God. Now think about that. Who is God? Is he a man walking around or a supernatural being? If we are made in the image of God… then does it not stand to reason that weare a supernatural being living in a body? Once you realize that you are not a body, but a being living in the body, you begin to grasp who you are.

Now if we are created in the image of God, then does it not make sense to find a connection to God? How can you be happy if you are not connected to the God who made you? It just does not make sense. The body is flesh and when it dies the flesh is gone, but you live on… If you live on in heaven, hell, as a ghost or in the dreaded abyss of nothingness that is up to you, but you will continue on.

Who am I? What person has not asked themselves that question? Who am I? I am a child of God. God made the world, God made the life that lives on this planet. You and I are alive because of God. Now if you are made in the image of God, if you know that you are not your body, but something much more, does it not stand to reason that you might want to find out more about God?

Our best source of information is the New Testament of the Bible. Find out about Jesus the Son of God and what he taught. That is the best way to find out just who you are. When we read the New Testament and get to know who Jesus was and if we are wise, apply His teachings to our lives, we find happiness, we find that missing link in our lives. We are no longer lonely in a crowd. Things start going better in our lives. We are not on a crooked path wandering through life any more.

As we read the Bible and the scriptures go from our head to our hearts, our path in life is more defined. We have direction, peace, joy … happiness. God can work in our lives when we take the time to read the instruction manual. God gave us the Bible and touched people to write the scriptures in a way that we can understand them. The days where we have to have someone to tell us what the Bible says or means are gone!

I was brought up on the King James Bible. I never did understand it. When I had the NIV Bible placed in my hands and was instructed that I might find some answers if I started reading the New Testament rather than start in the Old, my eyes were opened to an entirely different life. The NIV – New International Version of the Bible works well for me, but each person needs to find which Bible works for him or her.

To accept Christ and not read the scriptures. Not get to know Jesus is very much like winning the grand prize and not collecting your winnings. You have accepted Christ. You told Jesus that you love Him. He loves you. Now take the time to read the New Testament and get to know the man who lived two thousand years ago and is very much alive today, our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

The Bible is the LIVING WORD of GOD. No matter how many times you open it up and read, it teaches you something new. It deepens your understanding of the scriptures. It leads you to the answer you are seeking. Had a bad day? Pick up your Bible and read. Let God help you. Let the Holy Spirit guide you through the scriptures to the answers you seek. To the truth that God has laid out for your life.

You may listen to many people, but nothing will ever be a substitute for the time you spend one on one with God in the Bible. You need to read it for you. You owe it to yourself. I was blessed with a red letter NIV Study Bible to read. I spent weeks reading just the words in red. I wanted very much to get to know Christ and what he did, what he said. I highly recommend it for anyone.

If you are tired of running the rat race and never feeling happy… it is time for you to spend some time reading the Bible. Read the Blueprint for a happy life and apply it to your own life. Will it change your life over night? That is between you and God. I will say that like anything else in life, you get out of it, what you put into it.

God is Love. Let Him Love you today!

May God Bless

@ Rev. Kathie Grimes 2006

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