TODAY'S DEVOTION:
He fills the empty places.
How many of us move through life aware of the gaps — the places of lack, those missing pieces and broken edges that we try so hard to hide or to fix? There are days when we feel these open spaces more acutely, when the ache of "not enough" or "unfinished" makes us weary and worn out. And yet, in Ephesians 1 and throughout Paul's letters, we find this repeated promise: God, in Christ, has come to fill. He has come to restore and complete what is missing in us, to bring fullness where there is emptiness, wholeness where there is brokenness.
Paul knows this longing. He knows the hole in the heart and the deep need to be filled. And he tells us — Christ is the one who brings us into union with God, making us whole and complete in himself, sharing with us the very life he shares with the Father, in the Spirit. God's intent is to fill all things with himself, to make all things new — and that includes you and me, our families, our tired souls, the broken bits, the unfinished stories. All of it.
Our part is to wake up to this truth, to receive it, to allow ourselves to begin living in the reality of who we are in Christ. He is making all things new — all. His redemptive work touches even the places we think are too barren or lost. Let your heart be reminded today: when Christ says he fills all things, he means nothing is left out. Not the places you fear are beyond reach, not the wounds you keep hidden, not the everyday emptiness you feel.
That's the prayer I have for my own soul: Lord, fill me—fill the gaps, the brokenness, the empty spaces. That's the prayer I hold for my family, for my wife, my daughters, my son. And that's a prayer I carry for you. May we all receive the fullness Christ brings. May it be so.
