I have some thoughts, but haven't really solidified them. So, I'm just going to go there. This is the thing. In thinking about them building a Mosque where the Twin Towers left a space, a scienctific principle came to mind. If a space is left void, it will get filled with something. If we are upset with what is filling ground zero, then maybe we can look at this as an object lesson.
What kinds of voids do I have in my life, and what's filling them? Booze, TV, food, overuse of Internet stuff? Even work can be a mosque, a kind of worship to another god, rather than the one who died and rose for you, and who gave His Holy Spirit, so that we might be filled with Him.
Ephesians 5: 18 " And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit."
V. 19 "speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."
V. 20" giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."
How could I not KNOW that verse, eh? (see title of this blog- my mom says I have to tell people when I'm joking)
My old Pastor, Jack Hayford taught that wine could mean the wines of the world, ie. becoming intoxicated with a woman's love.
There are many counterfiets, but only one Holy Spirit. And He loves to fill us. Especially those holes left by the devastations of life.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He who beiieves in Me, out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." Be filled, wait under His fountain and be filled with that which alone can satisfy!
