That Hollow SpacePicture a bowl made out of a washcloth, picture that bowl in your chest feeling hollow and unfillable. It is an emptiness that never seems to hold onto what you put into it. I have tried to fill mine with parties, intoxication, physical pleasure, crying, laughter, work… with anything that I could think of that would take that hollow feeling away.
Picture a bowl made out of a washcloth. Everything you put into it runs out of the bottom and is wasted. It benefits no one. The missing item in that bowl in your chest is The Holy Spirit. His Spirit pours into the bowl with such strength and intensity that it shoots out through the washcloth in all directions saturating everything around it with Love, Kindness, Hope and the everlasting joy of God the Father.
Now I realize why nothing else would fill that hollow place in my soul. Everything else is weak, thin meaningless. Only God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have the power, the substance to fill that place with in you. Other things are thin and powerless and pour right through onto nothing, touches nothing. The Spirit fills that bowl constantly, all the time, with Love, Compassion, Caring. The Spirit gives us a desire to give this Love, Compassion and Caring to everyone we meet. It covers them as it saturates us. It is so powerful that when some one who is unsaved feels it, they feel a desire to have that fullness but don’t know how to get it for themselves.
Your bowl is never full. The capacity increases with the amount of spirit you allow to come through to those around you. And the larger the bowl gets the more the Holy Spirit pours into it. No matter how much you feel that you could burst if any more was given to you, God will give you everything you need to continue on. He will never let that empty feeling into your soul again because he will never abandon you, ever.
