The God Shaped Hole

I was listening to an old CD today and part of a particular song got my attention and made me think. The title of the song is "You Always Want What You Haven't Got."

It begins like this:

It's like I got up one morning,
Looked at the way that we live
Thought things could be so much better
There must be better than this.
And if I relocated, to where the grass is greener
Maybe I'd be happy again
But I'm a little bit disappointed 'cause now I've got my freedom
But I'm still looking over the fence.
It's always the same, at the end of the day
You always want what you haven't got.

Man, how true, how true.
How many breakups and divorces, how many church splits, how many problems we encounter in life are brought on because we are always looking over the fence and wanting what is over there instead of finding contentment in where we are and what we are blessed with? The thing is that in every human being there is "something" missing... like we have a hole in us and we are constantly searching and trying to find something to fill that void. The truth is that there is only one thing that can fill that hole and make us complete, and it is God. It has been described as a "God-shaped hole" and that's really it. The reason so many people feel empty or unfulfilled is because they are trying to fill that void with all the wrong things and the only one who can fill it is Jesus Christ.