God is not a piece of cork …

Our human bodies don’t work very well with holes in them. In fact, we were designed with a casing of skin to keep contained as one unit what we need in order to function physically. Holes in our bodies cause malfunctions of the worst kind!

That doesn’t stop many from teaching that deep within us is a “God-shaped hole” or “vacuum” that we need to fill with a relationship with God. That idea is a false concept built from humanity thinking too highly of itself.

Such a thought feeds the notion that we’re actually self-sovereign beings that can simply be enriched by adding a little interaction with God, pretty much the same way we can be enriched with a spouse, or children, a loyal pet, or a rewarding career. God doesn’t exist in order to enrich our lives, scripture teaches something quite opposite: we exist for His pleasure!

Look closely at what the Apostle Paul writes in Colossians 1:16, “… for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see — such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.”

We see the same idea echoed in Revelation 4:11, “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.”

The reality for us as creations of God isn’t that life is a little richer with God in it, but rather, the entire purpose of our existence is for God’s pleasure! There’s not some hole within us that needs to be filled with God; rather, our entire being needs to be lived in communion with Him.

When we understand that we weren’t simply made by God, but that we were made for God, we get a clearer picture of our vital need for Him. We cannot fulfill the creative purpose of our existence by offering God a little room in our life; fulfillment takes nothing less than giving our lives in their entirety to God, for His pleasure.

Scotty