What only God can Fill

All of us are born with a longing and desire to be loved by someone far greater than any human is capable. We long to be loved with a love that no human can give...unconditional. We long for a joy and a peace that nothing on Earth past, present or future will ever be able to provide. This longing, this desire can only be filled by One and that is Christ. Yet we try so hard to fill it with anythi...ng but. When we reject Him, we then allow Satan to fill that longing and desire with deceit and manipulation using such methods as drugs, pornography, alcohol, materialism, sex and even other religions. Some of us even allow Satan to use friends, relationships, careers, sports, vanity, marriage, extra marital affairs, volunteering, parenthood, medicine and a multitude of behaviors that only lead a path of destruction as we try to fill that longing and desire. The truth, whether you believe it or not acknowledge it or not is simply this.... NOTHING.... will be able to fill that longing, that desire for a lifetime other than Christ himself. It may be fulfilled for a moment or even a season. And when the loneliness and emptiness return, we search other methods to rid of it again never accepting the one who created it in order for Him to fill it. You see, all those are just 'things'. They will never give a lifetime of the peace, joy, grace, mercy and love we, humans, so long for and need. Even I as a Christian will allow Satan to temporarily fill this longing when I fail to look to Christ for the contentment only He can give. If there is anything I wish for my friends to know is this...Christ is all you need to fill that hole you may keep trying to fill. I know it may sound 'easier said than done' but I promise, if you want it, He's there to give it. Seek and you shall find, knock and he will answer, ask for it and He will provide it to you. He is creator of peace, the creator of joy, the creator of love, the creator of mercy, the creator of grace...who better or greater than to fill that hole than He.