I found in you what I lost in me. 

Most of us have felt that void; the hole or chasm where something should be but it’s not. Some people spend a lifetime trying to fill that void by investing in hobbies or friendships. They go from situation to situation, person to person, and thing to thing trying to figure out how to bridge the gap; how to fill the void or quench the thirst.

Some people find the answer to their question, some spend so much time searching through meaningless things that they live under the impression they have filled the void without ever really filling it, and others, well others die having spent their life looking for the answer in all the wrong places and all the wrong things. They die empty and they leave behind a legacy of broken relationships and meaningless investments.

What we invest our time in will reflect in our life, and what our life reflects is what becomes our legacy. The only real answer to the question, the only real thirst quencher and void filler is Jesus, but for some people the idea of God is far fetched and fairy tale sounding. In many ways it’s unbelievable, but I can’t really say that I blame them. Trying to wrap my head around Heaven and Hell, God and Satan, and death and resurrection is enough to leave my head spinning for days.

I can’t convince someone to believe in God, just like I can’t raise someone from the dead or turn water into wine. My body is nothing more then a tool for God’s work, I can’t fill that void in someone’s life, and nothing I do for anyone will bridge that gap. But sometimes God uses us to build that bridge, sometimes God uses us to show that he is the answer.

Even after becoming a Christian at a young age I tried to fill that void in my heart with anything I could find. From unhealthy relationships and porn, to alcohol and partying, and even simple and seemingly harmless things like TV, music, movies, and social media. However, it was never enough, I was never satisfied. I was looking in all the wrong places for all the wrong things.

Communicating God’s love and what a relationship with him looks like isn’t easy. It isn’t really something you can do with words, in fact, many times when we try we either misspeak or are misunderstood. The only real way we can tell someone how to fill that void is by showing them. Others will begin to see the reality of God when we demonstrate his love for us in how we live our lives. This doesn’t mean that we are perfect, it doesn’t mean that we don’t make mistakes constantly, it just means that we live our lives in a manner that reflects our understanding of the fact that God is the only thing that will ever fill that void.

As a young person it is easy to live in the moment and think that our actions don’t have consequences, but the simple truth is they do. Whether you believe in God or not at some point in our lives we will have to take responsibility for our actions – we will have to own our decisions and the consequences that they come with. While the idea of God, the death of his son, and eternity in Heaven are hard for some to accept, sometimes we find answers in the most unexpected places.

If you believe in God then I am simply telling you what you already know, he is the answer, and sometimes to be fed you have to open your mouth.

And if you don’t believe in God and you think the Bible is a lie and that this whole idea is ridiculous, all I can say is that I would encourage you to try it once. I would encourage you to give it a shot and see how it plays out, what’s the worst thing that could happen, it end up being true?