In Your Shape

You are a child of God. You bring God pleasure. You are so important to Him that He made a way to pay for your sins so you could be welcomed into His heaven and live with Him for eternity. God put a lot of thought into you. He made you just like you are for a reason. Since there is no one like you, your job is not to try and be like someone else, but to be fully you, in love with Him.
It was Blaise Pascal, the great seventeenth century French mathematician and passionate believer, who, in discovering the vacuum, discovered, also, a way to describe the spiritual hunger in all human beings. People have since come to refer to his depiction as “the God-shaped vacuum in ever human heart.” That is: We all have a big hole at the core of our being that is in the exact shape of God. The hole is a picture of a deep-seated emptiness and meaninglessness that seems to permeate everything we do. We constantly cast into this emptiness whatever we can find that promises to fill it like money, sex, drugs, glory or power, but nothing fills the void since it can only be filled up with God himself. Once you know God, this emptiness is satisfied and all the things we formerly tried to substitute for God, now find their rightful place around Him.
But I believe it is also possible to learn something about our relationship with God by looking at this illustration the other way around. If God created us with a deep-seated need for Him, then could we not also say He has, in Himself, a need for us? Not that He is needy, but He has created a place in His heart for you and me. Could it be that God is pursuing you? That He has purposely created a hole in Him that only you can fill? This is not a generic place for everyone, but a specific place for you; it’s in the shape of you. For me, there is a John-shaped hole in the heart of God and for you…well you can put your name there in place of mine and it will be true. So to love and worship God is to fill that place in God that He made just for you. Imagine bringing a gift to God by simply being who you are, and being in love with Him.

by John Fischer