• Pastor Gerrit Mes of the AFM Pentecostal Fellowship writes:
It is amazing how long something can stay in the brain. Many years and lots of miles, but the mind carries a sentence and picture. As a child, I remember as if it was yesterday, my Sunday school teacher saying, “We all have a God-shaped vacuum in our hearts”. That one link has been with me ever since that day.
He went on to say we can try to fill that vacuum with anything and everything, without success. Now, many years later, his words ring truer than ever. People fill their lives with pleasure, possessions and passions. But after a short while, like a drug addict, they need a new fix. Maybe that explains why some people who have everything still seem to be so unhappy.
A verse in an obscure book in the Bible puts it so well. Haggai 1:6. “You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.” So, so true.
All of us have something we are chasing, always thinking, if I get there, if only I get that, I will be happy. Things can kill your pain, but things can never make you happy.
In fact, what would you gain if you get the whole world and lose yourself? The happiest, richest people I know are people who have found things that fill their hearts. Things like family, friends and faith.
To be really wealthy is to have things money cannot buy. Do you have a God-shaped vacuum?
• Contact Pastor Mes on 087 802 5752.
