Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV) states: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

I don’t know about you but I just took these verses as a cool beginning for the creation story. During a sermon at church, God showed me a different take on these verses. Read the verses again. I’ll wait…

We are going to focus on the void. In the beginning, the earth had no form. There was no life on it. The only thing there was God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. How do we know this?

1. Verse 1 and 2 speak of the Father and the Holy Spirit.
2. John 1:1 speaks to Jesus being the Word of God present at the beginning. So, the words God spoke were Jesus.
3. In Genesis 1, if we drop down to verse 26, God is having a conversation with the Son and the Holy Sprit! And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26 KJV)

I digressed. How many of you have felt empty? Like nothing you do can fill that emptiness. You work. You play. You laugh. You cry. You talk to someone but nothing and no one can fill that hole. Sometimes it feels like a bottomless pit. And yes, this feeling will come over and over again. As we go through this life of living and being like Jesus, we are constantly finding areas of ourselves that need filling and refilling. Voids.

While in a time of void, we may find something that seems to fill it like when you eat carbs. Sometimes you’re left with a yucky full feeling. That feeling is when you fill your void with something that is not capable of filling the emptiness you are experiencing. God showed me that in those times of emptiness, think of the Holy Spirit moving on the face of the waters in the beginning. We tend to wallow in our times of void. Sadly, some people succumb to the void and go through an endless search for something to fill it. This happens because we forgot one thing: The spirit of God is moving in our void.

When we are empty, God is moving and waiting to fill us. We need to turn to Him. He is the only thing that will fill us so completely that we will be utterly satisfied without the carb side effects. He has what we need at all times. It is why He called Himself, I Am. My challenge to you: If you are experiencing a void right now, stop going to other people and things. Go to God. Get in your prayer closet and tell God that you are missing something. Ask Him to fill you. ~Selah