Empty Me
Written by rob12870
Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 at 02:56 AM.
Ephesians 5:15-18 Be very careful, then, how you live,not as unwise but as wise,16making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
One of my favorite songs out there right now would have to be the song Empty Me by Chris Sligh. Just the chorus alone is enough to cause me to search myself and cry out to God begging Him to help me empty me of me. Here is the chorus from that song. ( Empty me of the selfishness inside. Every vain ambition and the poison of my pride. And any foolish thing my heart holds to Lord empty me of me so I can be, filled with you.) These words sound so true and so power full yet how do we do it? How do we empty ourselves of ourselves. I mean sure it's easy to sing it but man how do you do such a thing? Well one of the best ways I have ever heard it described was you take an empty jar. Okay so the jar is not totally empty because you still have air in it. Now think for a minute what do you think is the best way to get all the air out of the jar? Don't read ahead think about it for a moment........ did you say put a vacuum on it and suck all the air out of it? that's a good answer but it's not the right answer because if you fail to turn the vacuum off the glass will implode on its self, and if you take the vacuum off the glass will just fill back up with air. The best way to get all the air out of a glass is to fill it with water. As the water enters the glass all the air rises to the top till there is none left in the glass. In a way you could say that we are like a glass. We hold all the things we see do and hear in the world on the inside. Jesus said in Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, %#ual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. All these things we store in our own hearts and we need to get rid of them. Know one should ever think for one minute that they are above any sin or that there is some sin out there that is to far gone for them to get into. I guarantee you there are a lot of Christians today sitting in prison cells across the country wondering how they ended up where they are and it all started with sin. We need to take sin seriously and we need to clean it out regularly from our system. Even the littlest sin if left unchecked can eventually become something bigger than life if we don't put an end to it. The best way to do this is to fill our glass... ooops I mean ourselves up with the word of God. Because it is His word that truly flushes our system clean. We can't do this in our own strength we need his strength and His word to do it for us. It's his word that finds it's way into the depths of our hearts and shows us what needs to go. As His words fill our hearts it empties our hearts of all the impurities that easily entangle us and we become filled with God. So remember the next time you pick that bible up. Before you start reading it hit your knees and ask God to use it to show you where your holding back and ask Him to help you empty you of yourself so you can be filled with Him.
