The life and trials of a growing Christian-Day Sixteen

I've said in a past blog that I do a lot of thinking while working and today was no different. I also watch people, no not like some freaky stalker, just someone who wonders what they think. There are a lot of sad, empty folks milling around out there. People who feel like they have a hole in them that they just can't fill no matter how hard they try. Some try it with alcohol, or drugs like I did. Others try with sex, or they have to be the center of attention, some have to be the prettiest or best looking person in the room at any cost. It doesn't matter what they do or how altered they get they still have that great big hole. A loneliness that couldn't be cured even if everybody in the world swooned and fell at their feet. (Just look a Hollywood.) That hole can be filled to running over; but it won't come from a drug or a person. It can't be bought for any price, no act can do it and no doctor can prescribe it. The only way to fill that hole is Jesus. If your not a Christian and reading this your probably saying 'yea right, sure, I've heard that before now tell me about the unicorns to', but if you are a Christian you know. Your saying AMEN right now because you have been delivered from that emptiness. You have been given that new life and you know that it wasn't by anything that you did. Jesus said in Revelation 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come to him and dine with him, and he with Me."
All anyone has to do is believe and "open the door"! The door to your heart! He also said in Mathew 11:29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest in your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is lite."
I can't stress enough how great it is to wear the yoke of Jesus! When He said "you will find rest in your souls", BELIEVE IT! My life is a testimony to Him! I was one of those people, I couldn't fill the hole no matter what I poured into it, but He did. Life isn't always always going to be a bowl cherries, but, with Jesus at the center of it, it won't be the pits either. You can handle things better. I can't put it into words, but life is just brighter now.