God-Shaped Hole

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:13-14

There once was a woman who had been married four times. None of those marriages worked though, so she ended up just moving in with guy #5. Most of us would say, "There is something wrong with that woman!" Or, "She certainly has issues." Or, worse yet - simply resort to labeling and name calling.

Then she encounters Jesus - a man who tells her everything she has ever done and offers her permanent filling for that God-shaped hole that she keeps trying to fill with men.

There was never any doubt that she was thirsty. Oh, she was thirsty! But she kept choosing that wrong drink. She chose what made sense, sounded good, was easy. But it never satisfied.

We all have a God-shaped hole. Very few of us are working on man #5. But how many of us move from one good sounding thing to another trying to fill that unquenchable thirst inside. There are so many things that we moms are tempted to run after to fill a void we may feel inside. We think going back to school might help, or going back to work, or exercising ourselves into the perfect body, or losing ourselves in the fantasy world of fictional romance, or pouring ourselves completely into our kids, or finding every volunteer position that we can possibly fill, or, or, or......

We have thousands of choices in our world today that we can drink in without looking immoral or even out of balance. But the thirst is never quenched....unless we choose the one that truly will keep us from ever thirsting again.

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