FROM AN EMPTY PIT TO AN OVERFLOWING WELL
Today, many, many people seek both far and wide, and high and low, to do one of two things. At most times, it's either one or the other. And both have their origins in the same root cause. One is the fervent pursuit to satisfy the thirst of the soul for genuine meaning and purpose. The other is to console or dull the senses from the ache that is a life devoid of genuine or sustainable meaning.
"I sought in mine heart to give... myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life." - ECCLESIASTES 2:3
Even the wisest man ever, Solomon, struggled upon this crucible. At no time more than now is the habitual abuse of alcohol and the excess taking of drugs a more prolific cry for help and a simultaneous endeavour to hide the ache of one's soul from the realities of life.
Many feel that for a moment, the deadening will help them to forget their sorrows or their emptiness, or the inability to fill what appears to be a bottomless PIT. The prevailing reality is that neither of these pursuits can really ever work for beyond the span of a short-lived moment. When the effects are gone, they are even more depressed than when they began. This is what Solomon discovered, here, as well.
That bottomless PIT is the self-inflicted wound of a severed umbilical from the source of all life, and love, and meaning. It is the ache of a child for the enduring and sustaining touch of its doting parent. True satisfaction and wholeness comes from a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing else in life can fill that void. And when you find this treasure, it is then that the empty PIT becomes an abundant WELL, a veritable cup that RUNNETH OVER.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
- JOHN 4:10-13
"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen." - 1 TIMOTHY 1:17
God bless, Wayne Biehn
