What’s Missing?

What’s Missing?

“But respect Christ as the holy Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to answer everyone who asks you to explain about the hope you have…” --1 Peter 3:15 NCV

What’s missing?  Why do we have a void in our hearts, I know God needs something of me, what?  What is missing, what is unfulfilled in our life?  These are, unfortunately, a too often heard questions among Christians.  Something is needed, what is it, what’s missing?  God has given the answer to us, sometimes He uses people to tell us, sometimes God whispers into our spirit, or it is written in his guide to life, the Bible.  We, nonetheless, just aren’t listening.  Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelburg, pose such questions in their booklet, “Crossing the Line of Faith,” like this:  “What is it that is absent in the lives of so many believers who are crying out for fulfillment?  What on earth is God asking us to do?” 

God, through Christ Jesus, filled our emptiness with his Spirit.  So, how or why do we continue to have the feeling that something is missing?  Could it be we’re listening for some magical horn to blow just before we are immersed in wonderful privileges and riches; or even heaven?  So, then, if we aren’t fulfilled, if something is missing, we are mission the question, “What on earth is God asking us to do?”  Get a better job?  Will that be fulfilling and will a job that makes more money allow us to start tithing?  Do we need more friends, becoming more popular?  What is it that God wants us to do, what’s missing?        

Think on this.  Share an answer.  I will give Hybels and Mittelburg; and my answer later.

Owen <><