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A GOD-SHAPED VOID

We humans were created to love—it’s how God made us. Specifically, we were created to love Him and to fellowship with Him. Every person has a God-shaped void on the inside of them, a place that only He can fill. Psalm 42:1 says, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.” Our souls crave fellowship and closeness with our Creator.

A lot of people don’t know what their souls are thirsting for, so they try to fill the void with something else—entertainment, alcohol, drugs, or other people, for example. But nothing else will fill that gaping void in their hearts except a relationship with the One who created them. Every person’s heart continually cries out to know their Creator.

Here’s the thing that we humans have so much trouble understanding—God loves us because He is love (1 John 4:7-8), not because we’re so loveable. He loves us because He is good, not because we are. We cannot earn and deserve this love. We can only receive it and believe it. And we know that is possible because 1 John 4:16 says, “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us.”

Your Father God knows everything about you—the good, the bad, and the ugly—and He loves you anyway. In Jeremiah 31:3 He says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.” Now, when God says “everlasting” He really means it. Nothing in this world lasts forever—except His love for you. It will never change, never go away based on your performance. You are loved with an everlasting love. Period.

I know it sounds too good to be true, but it is true! Purpose today to believe it and receive it.