[CS-FSLUG] "The Hole in Your Heart"

[Fred A. Miller]

A WORD WITH YOU
By Ron Hutchcraft
#4734 - "The Hole in Your Heart"
John 4:13-14 

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        Our friend Mary recently had a medical procedure to repair what the 
doctor called "a hole in her heart." Then he told her that everyone is born 
with a hole in their heart. That got my attention. I called a longtime friend 
of mine who is a highly experienced and respected heart surgeon. He told me 
that before we are born, there's a hole that is the passageway for blood to 
enter our pre-natal heart. In most people, and I'm glad I'm most people, the 
hole heals up within a few days after birth. For a few, it doesn't go away. 
And it really needs to be repaired. 

        I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The 
Hole in Your Heart." 

        So everyone is born with a hole in their heart. Not just physically, 
but spiritually. But unlike that physical hole in your heart, the spiritual 
one doesn't go away unless you let the greatest physician of all fill the 
hole. 

        That spiritual hole in our heart keeps letting us know that it's there 
- the loneliness that no relationship seems to remove. The emptiness that 
never goes away for very long, no matter what we do to fill up our life. The 
"what's it all for?" questions about life that make everything seem 
ultimately so meaningless. It's like there's this voice inside us that seems 
to be saying, "Something's missing." We keep thinking the next relationship 
will be what's missing, the next thrill, the next accomplishment, the next 
spiritual experience, the next "toy," the next milestone. But every time we 
get to the top of the hill we think has what we've been looking for, all we 
find is another hill to climb. 

        After a while, we just assume that this hollowness inside, this hole 
in our heart is just how it is. The Bible describes King Solomon as the 
richest and wisest man of his time. And he had the resources to do it all. 
Here's his conclusion: "I have seen all the things that are done under the 
sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind." But just 
accepting that hole in your heart is ultimately deadly. It needs to be 
treated. It needs to be healed by the only One big enough to fill the hole in 
your heart - the God who made you to belong to Him. The brilliant physicist 
Blaise Pascal concluded that "inside every man is a God-shaped vacuum." 

        The hole in your heart is there to tell you that you really need God. 
And that He isn't there because of something that makes it impossible for God 
to live there - all the sinning of your life and mine. All the wrong things 
we've done. Until that's forgiven and removed, the God you were made for must 
remain outside. In John 4:13-14, our word for today from the Word of God, 
Jesus is at a well, talking with a woman who has tried to fill the hole in 
her heart with one relationship after another. Jesus says to her, and to you, 
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the 
water I give him will never thirst ... the water I give him will become in 
him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 

        "Thirsty again" - that's the hole in your heart. "Never thirst" - 
that's the hole in your heart finally filled as Jesus erases every sin of 
your life with His amazing forgiveness. He can do that because He did all the 
dying for all the sinning you've ever done. It's paid for. Which means your 
heart can be cleaned today and the God of the universe can finally move in. 
Your lifetime search will be over. But you have to reach out to Jesus, 
telling Him you're done driving your life, that you're trusting completely in 
His death for your sin. I've got a little booklet I wrote about getting 
started with Him called Yours For Life, and I'll send it to you if you want 
it. 

        You've lived enough days without the One you were made for. You don't 
need to be without Him one more day.

If you're not sure you belong to Jesus, and you would like to make sure today, 
Ron would like to send to you a free copy of the booklet, "Yours for Life: 
How to Have Life's Most Important Relationship."  To read it online, click 
here:
http://www.yoursforlife.net/

OR, to request your free copy of "Yours for Life," click here:
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