Think of yourself and all the parts of you. Now imagine all of those parts as pieces to a jigsaw puzzle that fit together to complete the picture of you. Each of your hobbies, stories, and experiences are puzzle pieces that completes the picture of who you are. However, one piece is missing. So you try and look for that missing piece everywhere. You look under the table, back in the box, maybe you even stand up to see if you were sitting on it the whole time. But nope, it’s no where to be found. So you decide to take matters into your own hands. You decide to stuff, bend, and break anything to make it fit into that hole. Because you need that space to be filled, you need to feel complete. You stuff approval from others in there, alcohol, attention from your peers or of the gender you’re attracted to, parties, pleasure, food, grades and achievements, recognition, the “right” people, a successful job, and a nice house and even more into this missing hole but it won’t fit no matter how many times you force it, bend it, break it, or will it to fit, it just won’t. After a while all your attempts at filing this space has stretched the hole wider, left it a little torn in places, and rough around the edges. And you are just as lost as when you started. You’ve even retraced your steps multiple times wondering where this piece could be. You’re at your wits end!
What if I told you I know exactly where that missing piece is, and how to find it. What if I told you I know exactly what will make your life complete. You can’t find it at parties, in other people, or in a successful career, and it doesn’t come with money. In fact you have to be willing to lay all of that aside, and give away all that you have. Are you in? Are you ready to discover where that missing piece is? The secret to life?
The missing piece is so simple but He will ask for everything you are but in return He will give you pure joy, and abundant life! Is it worth it?
Listen carefully okay, or uhh read carefully in this case…
That missing puzzle piece is Jesus! Yes J-E-S-U-S. sounds too simple, doesn’t it!?
It took me 18 years and 1/2 of a 9 month missions to discover this! I was listening to a new song by Jon Bellion called Stupid Deep. As I was listening I felt this dark pit open inside me which I have felt on other occasions; when I was doing something not so beneficial to me. Trying, just trying, to fill that missing piece’s hole. It was the lyric, “What if all the things I’d done, were just stupid attempts at earning love, because the hole inside my heart was stupid deep?” That line cut my heart right in half and opened my eyes to everything that I had done to try to fill this hole. Nothing, I mean absolutely nothing could fill it. I would drop my achievements, grades, knowing the “right” people, getting attention from guys or other girls for how I looked, feeling wanted by guys, and more, so much more. I threw it all down the pit inside of me because that’s what the world told me would make me feel fulfilled or satisfied. So I’d drop it down there waiting for fulfillment or to just not feel empty anymore but, nothing. Nothing happened. I was still empty inside. Maybe I would feel something for a few hours or days if I was lucky but I could count on it going away soon.
I was doing everything I could to earn love from people because the hole inside of my heart was so, overwhelmingly deep. Keep in mind I was a Christian this whole time, this was basically how high school went for me. I was still going to church, youth group, and my boyfriend’s house, and looking for approval anywhere and everywhere I went. I was willing to give God my Sunday mornings but not my Friday nights, and I was keeping from him what I didn’t think was worthy enough and not giving him my everything, which is exactly what he asks for. No wonder I still felt like something was missing, because I was holding it back. God knows no one is perfect but he still asks for every part of who you are. The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful. Because God is so much bigger and more creative than us humans. He, if you give it to Him, will take every bad situation you’ve ever been in or put yourself in and use it, in the end to glorify him, to make it good. The day I discovered this, um last week, and asked God to come and fill this pit and to take the place of the missing piece, which was his all along, immediately I was filled! Immediately the pit that was swallowing me was overflowing with peace and joy!! And I realized everything I had ever done to earn love from people and why they were never enough! Because what I craved was a love so unfathomable, so great and unconditional that it could reach down into the depths of my heart and fill every part of me that I had tried to fill on my own with superficial worldly things. I was searching for a supernatural love in ordinary humans and from ordinary things. Since realizing this about myself I am making an effort to change the way I think, and act. Instead of going to the things of this world to fill me up to now, going to God first, to His word, and in prayer to fill me up. It is a choice I will have to make everyday and every moment for the rest of my life. But it is so worth it!!
