Hurting?

Are you hurting? Lonely? Desperate? You want, you need something to change but you don't know what or you don't know how?

God knows your situation. He knows everything about you and your life. He sees. He cares. He really wants you to know that: that He cares.

See, the thing is, when God created you (and He did, you know); when He thought you up - He did something quite remarkable. God cut a hole in Himself, a "you-shaped" hole. God purposefully made Himself incomplete without you. He longs for you. He wants to be known by you. He wants a relationship with you. And not just any relationship, but a very intimate, very personal, very real relationship.

Nicky Gumble (author and creator of "Alpha") describes an ache in every human heart, an emptiness that can only be filled with God. It's a kind of hunger we all experience, and if you don't know God, you try to satisfy this hunger, this emptiness, with all kinds of other things. But sex, drugs, power, money, prestige, etc. cannot fill this "God-shaped hole" in our lives.

So you see, whether you know it or not, you long for God, too!

God sees your pain. He knows the mess you're in. He loves you and cares for you and wants to turn your life around.

C'mon! This is so simple! There is a commercial on TV for Everest or Medix or some other retraining school and the guy says, "You talk on the phone all day anyway, make that call. It's not complicated." I think he also says something about where is your life going to be in one year, two years, five years? So do something today to change that. God is holding out the key to change your future. All you have to do is make that call!

(If you read this blog and something inside you said, "this message is for me" and you want to talk privately, you can email me at cheriebakerellis@rogers.com and I will keep it in strictest confidence.)