IMMANUEL ~ The Gift of WITH - Advent Day 6

FULFILLMENT

What do you feel you are lacking right now? What is that thing you keep doing trying to fill the aching void? We are designed this way - needy. We hunger, we eat. We thirst, we drink. However, we are not always as aware of the heart hunger, those deeper longings that drive us. But they are just as important as food, water, or air. You have a need for love, acceptance, worth, and value. How do you meet those needs? When you need love, what do you do? 

Jesus tells us that He Himself is the bread of Life - literally LIVING bread that came down from Heaven - to fill, to nurture, to supply Life. He brings to us Himself to fill the deepest thing you crave. He brings love and fullness into the places that we feel empty. He fills us with His Life, and affirms that we are loved, valued, and forever secure. 

Take a moment and notice where you may feel a void, where your soul is searching for satisfaction but feels empty. What would you call that void? Name it. Is it love, peace, joy, hope, purpose, freedom…? How have you tried to fill that longing? Is there any hesitation in turn to Him to meet that need? Turn your gaze towards Jesus, and listen to what He says. Let Him bring to you today what your heart longs for, partake of His life and be filled. Notice what it feels like to be satisfied, to be filled, to have all that you need. Rest there. 

“My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 says