God fills empty spaces

I don’t really want to write about this today – because I feel empty.  So I’m not writing from that healed and full place about this truth.  Today.  But I could have a different day.  I could have just a few days ago.  I might be able to in a few days. But today I’m living in the land of empty spaces. 

This doesn't mean this truth isn't real.  It doesn't mean I don’t believe it.  Most of these truths of which I write were learned through darkness and pain.  Maybe not intellectually, but they reached the core of who I am because they were bought with pain and tears.  The subject of this writing was also purchased with the same currency.  You can’t know that God fills empty spaces until you know emptiness.

Just because you know a truth doesn't mean you can always hold on to it and always know concretely the hope of it.  God does fill empty spaces.  There were so many and God blessed me to fill me with so much after the dark days.  But the empty spaces come back and haunt sometimes.  The “more” to come isn’t quite here yet.  But I know it will come. 

God is faithful to His children and whatever gets stolen, He gives more in an overflowing abundance.  You may not get back what you lost…and it may grieve you all your days…but you will receive more.  Part of what fills the emptiness is a dependence on God that you never had when you were full.  Whatever you receive from God to fill the empty spaces is a sure knowledge that He fills you…that His mercy and love are what fill those spaces and cannot be removed. “Nothing can separate us from the love of God.” 

So the broken dreams that leave me empty are being filled filled with renewed dreams accompanied by a deep sense of the Love of Christ and the Nearness of the Holy Spirit and the Sovereign Reign of God Almighty.   This is true, although today I mostly just feel the empty part…I have felt and will feel the rest.  God has been faithful to do it before and He will do it again. 

Jesus loves me, this I know.  This One Thing Remains.

(Added note... now that it is the day to post this on my blog, I'm feeling a little less empty

and actually rather full.  This is the grace of God and I am thankful.)