Disconnected from continuous Love
It feels like a nagging pain, a black hole that sucks everything in, but never really gives satisfied contentment. At most a short-lived high where life sometimes seems like a party. Recognizable? Then definitely read on.
We humans are creatures made to be connected to God JHWH who is a Spirit (John 4:24) via "our spiritual wifi". He is our Creator and immeasurable Love: complete, deep and always.
Only: Adam and Eve have disconnected that spiritual connection by sinning against God and eating from the fruit of the tree of insight into good and evil. That is what sinning/going against God results in. What remains is a great emptiness without God who is Love. And so since then people go through life with that emptiness...
They try to find satisfaction themselves with their own will and their own insights and fill the emptiness that has arisen on their own path. And the world has a lot to offer for that. Things that are in the news every day more often and more intensely; and certainly not because of the positive spin off or good influences...
Through fast and unwise eating and drinking people literally and figuratively throw themselves full and then suffer from the many common diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, COPD, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases. And through alcohol consumption life also seems to be a party for a short time, but liver, brain and social life are so badly damaged that illness, accident and death end it prematurely in misery. Drugs and pills also seem to be in great demand because of that, but the painful hunger in emptiness continues to grow bigger and more painful. Even the more spiritual things like egoism, hunger for power, sadism, lust for money, career hunger and drive for achievement appear to be just as insatiable and often go hand in hand with food, drink, drug and pill addiction. Nothing the world offers can fill the void sustainably.
If you recognize the starving void in yourself, if you already have the diseases, if you recognize your behavior now, if you are extremely sad, lonely or unhappy because of it: then definitely read on!
Get the connection working again!
God who created mankind made us so that we are suitable for His Love 24/7 and therefore also that we as people can feel and understand what love is. We were made for Him and for His Love, not for shallow surrogates; not even for mere "earthly love". That is why drink, drugs, food, pills, sex, money, power, greed, career, and so on cannot stop the loss.
That is why it is important to come back to God who is Love and therefore find the Way back to Him! This can be done in 4 steps:
1. Stop filling the void; so stop with addictions, idolatry, sex, lust for money, greed/materialism, hunger for power, career and so on. Start new!
2. Start your acquaintance with Christ who is called Yeshua, because he is the Way that is needed to ultimately come back to God.
3. Definitely also get to know God who is called JHWH. He is a Spirit and connection with Him through your spirit is necessary. Praying is important for this!
4. When you realize that you need them, know them and believe in them, the intention is to then lay the same foundation for this!
In Christ you become worthy and clean.
In God you get "the wifi" working permanently.
In order to maintain the renewed connection it is very important not to sin and for that it is important to know what sinning is!
And it is equally important to know what to do if you have sinned!
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