Imagine as a little kid on Easter. You walk into the room where the "Easter Bunny" put your Easter basket. You notice all the goodies. You begin to poke around and see the chocolate eggs that have been left. Your thinking to yourself "these are going to be so good." "Can't wait to bite into one and devour it."
So you unwrap it, open your mouth and prepare to take a big bite out of it. You bite down and then disappointment sets in. The egg is hollow. No cream filling. No caramel filling. No peanut butter. Not a solid chocolate egg. Just a hollow chocolate shell. Your crushed. You were looking forward to something so delicious and heartbreak.
Fast forward to being a little older. Things that you have done in your life, you take a look back thinking that they would be fulfilling, only to find what you had done or accomplished was actually, hollow! Had no meaning in the long run.
One thing that Facebook does everyday is share your memories from years past on a specific date. You can tell what concert you went to see. A movie, sporting event, whatever. As I look at these memories sometimes, I think to myself, "did I really post that?" How irrelevant it was. I thought that it had meaning at the moment, but years later, I think about how silly that post was.
I look back and I see complaints about how the Cardinals played that day. Or the Blackhawks. Or something else that didn't matter, I thought that the world should know happened.
These memories that keep coming up and noticing what I had posted had me thinking about the book of Ecclesiastes in The Bible. Especially the first chapter.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 New Living Translation
2 “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless!”
I keep thinking about all these things that I'm doing, thinking that the world needs to hear about it, and then reflecting back, it meant nothing. At the moment I thought that it did, but no!
I went though a divorce in the early 2000's. When it was finalized, I felt hollow. There was hole left were the marriage had previously been. So I thought that dating every woman that I could would fill that hole. I would be proven wrong. No woman filled that hole in my life.
It wasn't until I went to church and accepted Jesus as my Lord & Savior did that hole get filled. I no longer felt hollow. I felt a fullness to my life now. One that I had never felt before. Hard to explain unless you have the same experience.
So unlike the hollow chocolate egg, that was unsatisfactory, Jesus satisfies every need in you life. My life now has meaning. No longer do I feel hollow!
Ecclesiastes 3:4 New Living Translation
4 A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.
Divorce was time to cry. I didn't cry because of the divorce, I cried because I thought that I had failed. But then came the time to laugh. Jesus became the joy of my life! The One I needed more than anyone!
Nehemiah 8:10 New Living Translation
10 For the joy of the Lord is your strength!”
So, you are feeling hollow today, let Jesus fill you, as only He can.
God bless.
Rev. Kev.
