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Empty Place In Our Souls
From:
Answers by Billy Graham
“a hungry person dreams of eating,
but awakens hungry still” (Isaiah 29:8).
Question : “I have a neighbor who's into all kinds of
strange things (at least from my point of view) — séances, mystical crystals,
fortune-telling, astrology, you name it. Why would anyone do this, instead of
believing in God?”
Answer by Billy Graham:
I can only guess why your neighbor has become so deeply
involved in occult practices and mystical beliefs — but at least part of the
reason (I suspect) is because she has a deep spiritual emptiness in her soul,
and she hopes these will fill that empty place.
And at the moment she may think her spiritual hunger is
being satisfied. But in reality it is not — as she will eventually discover.
In
our frantic search for happiness and peace, we seek all kinds of ways to fill
the empty place in our souls — possessions, entertainment, sex, drugs and
alcohol, relationships, even the occult.
For
a time these may seem to satisfy our inner spiritual hunger—but eventually they
all fail.
We are like those of whom the Bible speaks: “a hungry person dreams of eating, but
awakens hungry still” (Isaiah 29:8).
Why is this? The reason is because God put that empty
place in our souls, and only He can truly fill it.
And
He will, as we turn to Him and receive Jesus Christ into our hearts.
He
alone has the power to forgive us and cleanse us, and He alone has the right to
make us His sons and daughters.
Have
you put your life into His hands?
Pray for your neighbor, that God will break through her
resistance and pride and open her heart and mind to Jesus Christ.
Ask
Him also to help you be an example to her of Christ’s love and truth.
In
Him alone we have the “knowledge of the
truth” (Titus 1:1).
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