subject: God Uses To Draw Us To Christ [print this page] We have a hole in our craft in the shape of a cross. Money is not going to work. Success is not going to work. Relationships are not going to work. Only Christ will work. He is the only one who can fill the hole in our hearts shaped like a cross.
I have got to ask you right now, have you invited him in? Have you allowed him to plug up your life, to complete your life, to fill your life, to satisfy your life, have you allowed that? If you dont, you will be doing a lot of paddling. You will be doing a lot of turning your boat over. You will be doing a lot of fishing in a sinking craft.
What happens if i allow Christ to infiltrate my life? What happens if i allow him to make himself at home in my life? What happens if i allow him to fill the hole? If i say, Jesus, take control of my life, what happens? Your location changes.
Its a win-win deal. Right up front, your location changes. Isnt this cool? You have heaven locked down, because the bible says we will spend eternity in either one of two places. And the moment we bow the knee to Christ, and he plugs up the hole in our lives, we have a new location in heaven forever. Also, check this out, Christ has a new home. He moves into your life. Here is what the bible says. Jesus said these words, john 14:23, if anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Here is the cool part about this. Its your loneliness, its my loneliness, its your emptiness, its my emptiness, its your incompleteness, its my incompleteness, that God uses to draw us to Christ. Ed Young Sermons we would never move toward Christ. We would never paddle toward Christ. We would never realize there is a hole in our craft unless we experienced these feelings of loneliness, and these feelings of isolation. Our family changes.
Isaiah 59 says our iniquities have separated us from God. Our location changes. Here is what else changes. Our family changes. We are family. Romans 8:15 (nasb), but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba! Father! literally, that means we can cry out, daddy. We have a cosmic perfect parent/child relationship with the king of kings and the lord of lords.
