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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
(Psalm 23:1-6) ESV

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”
(Psalm 95:7-11) ESV

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
(Proverbs 14:12) ESV

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8) ESV

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23) ESV

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
(Galatians 5:19-21) ESV1

Inspirational Quotes from Famous People

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
--Arthur Erickson – Canadian Architect Born 1924

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
--Merle Shain

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
--Eric Hoffer – American Writer Born 1902 Died 1983

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
--Saint Aurelius Augustine

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
--Arthur Herzog – American Novelist

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
--M. Scott Peck – American Psychologist Born 1936 Died 2005

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.
--George Martin – English Producer Born 19264

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Emptiness and the Bible

Have a look at the book of Ecclesiastes. It has great wisdom on the emptiness and meaningless of life without God.

What does man gain for his labour that he toils under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:3)

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2:11)

I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. (Ecclesiastes 2:18-20)

These are just a few glimpses. If you take some time to think about everything we strive for in life. Sometimes it's meaningless and gives us an empty feeling. We work so hard that we become like slaves to our job. Why? Make money. Why? To eat, buy things. Why all these possession? Because it makes my life easier.

So we spend all our times buying things we don't have time to enjoy?

We grow up, get married, have kids, get old, and die, leaving all that we bought to other people. What does we leave with?

"Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand." (Ecclesiastes 5:15)

Sometimes we go for power or fame. Celebrities try so hard to be famous, then demand privacy and wonder why papprazzi are obsessed with their lives. Isn't that also meaningless? Is it so important who remembers who in history? Of the thousands of the years passed, how many are truly remembered? And for what?

The wise teacher in Ecclesiastes calls us to "Remember the creator in the days of your youth." (Ecclesiastes 12:1) It is God who controls all, and only by fulfilling our lives' purposes, as planned by God even before we are born, do we truly find satisfaction and purpose in each of our days. 

For "Man does not live by bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." (Matthew 4:4). The Bible is to be our source of sustenance and strength also.

Jesus also puts it this way in John 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."

Are we satisfied with a life of emptiness? There's a God shaped hole in our hearts that only God alone can fill.2
 

 

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Definition of Emptiness

1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.3  
          

 

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References and notes
1. OpenBible.info - http://www.openbible.info/topics
2.  What does the bible say about emptiness? - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070111174843AAWQr48
3. 
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - http://topicalbible.org/d/emptiness.htm
4.  Brainy Quote - http://www.brainyquote.com/

 


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