The Emptiness Within 

   “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” (G. K. Chesterton) 

   There is a void within us, an emptiness that must be filled.  If we refuse to allow God to fill that void it doesn’t go away.  We will spend our life searching for something else, anything else to fill it.

   That void is very specific, it cannot be filled by whatever happens to catch our fancy.  Oh, we will try to shoehorn our favorite belief into it but the fit will always be imperfect, leaving us to continue to seek other things to believe in and to place our trust in.  Our life will become a revolving door for beliefs that can never suffice.

   The world offers numerous false beliefs, false hopes, and false gods to believe in, but none will complete us; the hole within will remain.  Nothing this world has to offer will suffice because nothing of this world is permanent.  What we have placed our faith in will always disappoint in the long run.

   No matter what we have trusted and believed in, it will no longer exist once we take our last breath.  We will find that the emptiness we thought we had filled, the happiness we thought we had found is gone leaving us alone with the emptiness within.  Only God can fill that emptiness.  Only God is eternal.

   Trust in what you will, believe what you will, but understand that if it is not God in whom you trust and believe you are only fooling yourself.  Emptiness is a terrible way to spend eternity.