I Feel So Empty and Alone Inside

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Question:

I feel so empty and alone inside. I have been going to church since I was little. I do believe in God, but I don't know why I can't accept Him fully. I feel embarrassed about giving myself fully to Him. I often feel like letting go and leaving everything to God, but when the time comes I choke. I'm NOT running around sinning, yet, I feel empty and alone. I DON"T go out and do things I'm NOT supposed to--like drugs and wild parties. I DO take care of my kids and am very responsible. Yet, as the days pass I feel empty and alone inside because I haven't accepted Jesus as my Savior from sin. What's my problem? I feel lost, empty, alone, and I don't know what to do. Why can't I accept God? Why do I have to continue to feel so lost, so empty and alone inside?

Answer:

The reason you feel empty and alone inside is because God created you to be joined to Himself and to have His Love flow through you continuously like a powerful fountain of moving water. God speaks to you and shines His Light on you so that you will turn to Him. When you acknowledge Him, pay attention to Him, He puts His faith (supernatural belief and trust) in your heart and His faith is the door to His grace (the free gift of His Love). There is no way to stop feeling empty and alone except to receive Jesus Christ, the God Who created you to love you. Love is righteousness and righteousness is Love. Everything that is selfish (like the parties and drugs and sex outside of marriage) is not the result of God's Love flowing through you. You were made for Love and Love created you and the entire universe. When you turn your attention to God, God's faith will come into your heart and will cause a wonderful flow of God's Love in your heart as you accept Jesus as your Savior from your sinful nature and from Satan (who only wants to destroy you and who lies to you and says that you need freedom from God, which will only hurt you).

The reason that you can't accept God is because Satan is lying to you (telling you that you can't accept God) and you have believed Him instead of believing God. Satan has blinded the eyes of your understanding for a while. The reason you are reading this is because you have heard God calling you, telling you that you can accept Him. You can accept God.

It seems that the Holy Spirit is speaking to you. Every person goes through this same thing that you are going through, since God loves every person. Some people never respond to God. They even sometimes pretend that they don't believe in God, because they really want to keep doing whatever they want to do. They don't realize that the very things that they think will fulfill them and make them feel real and meaningful are the things that are making them empty, fake, and meaningless. God is shining His Holy Light on you. Every good thing that you do, like taking care of your kids and avoiding drugs and wild parties, is a response to His Light on you. These are actually just a small sample of God's Holy Love shining on you. A lot of people don't realize that God is Love, and He is the only Love there is. Satan comes with fake Love to confuse us. We need to remember that God's Love is pure, wise, wholesome, peaceful, fulfilling, kind, generous, and full of joy. It never envies. It never doubts God's power to deliver. There is much more about it, since it is really the God Who created the universe and we just can't imagine the mighty power and goodness of God.

If you have a respect for God who sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die to save you from slavery to Satan and all his evil ways, it is God who has given this to you. It is a gift from Him.

The reason you think that you can't accept God is because Satan lies to you and tells you that you can't accept God. But that is a lie. You can turn to Jesus Christ. Satan is strong. This is true. However, in comparison to Christ, Satan is nothing at all. All Satan has is his many lies. Don't believe him. You can accept Jesus. You can be joined to God. You can enter into a new life that you have never had before. You don't need to feel empty any more.

You can do this right now as you read this. Just tell Jesus (He can hear your every thought) that you want to be His and that you want to flow in His Love and yield to His Love. A door will open to His free gift (grace). You will be born into the family of God as a new born baby. From there you will grow.

If you would like to know about growing to your full potential in Christ, you can scroll down to the comment box on this page--but take care of being born into God's family first. You don't want to be stuck with Satan as your father a second longer. Satan is not a good father and will just make you more and more miserable.

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