I see the hole in your heart because I once had the same hole.  It
drains out everything that has been poured into it.  You can be given
purest love only for it to drain away or financial stability, homes, travel,
riches, accomplishments, and everything that there is – and yet you gain no
lasting satisfaction.  The reason for such sadness is because the hole
robs you.  You have been on a quest to remedy this perpetual thirst for
quite some time and have found no quenching.  This wound began the minute
you were born and only grows larger so that today it dominates you.  You
do not realize how much you accommodate and plan your life around this hole and
even how you have become a slave to it.  You look for soothing, comfort,
and escape – not recognizing how these things do not help but only add to the
hole’s expanse.

It is a merry-go-round of enslavement.  We think we are doing our own
thing and making our own life choices but we could not be farther from the
truth for in fact the hole makes our choices for us.

Jesus has come so He may be who fills us and heals this perpetual wound.
 He waits for us to take His hand.  He will lead us from misery into
everlasting life, placing our name in His book of Life.  His plans have
always been to give us a bright future filled with promise, purpose, and
hope.  The very place of pain and mental anguish is the place to meet the
Lord and where He waits for our invitation so He may enter not only our
circumstances but also our entire being.  You see, He longs to breathe
into us, His life which is the only thing that can remove our damaged heart and
replace it with His heart.  When this takes place we can see how we have
been enslaved and all that we loved and thought we enjoyed we see how it has only
stolen from us.

The day Jesus hung on the cross and offered His blood for all was the day He
healed us, and so He waits for us to receive Him believing in Him for our good.
 He will shine His light as He begins working upon our wounded souls when
we call on Him.  In this moment, He will begin to reveal Himself to us and give
us the strength that comes from Him to handle life’s challenges and
difficulties.  He will provide us with power so we may lay aside all that
steals from us because we have turned from ourselves to take His hand and begin
walking with Him.

Each step we take away from ourselves toward the Lord will give us insight
into what Jesus told us:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me.” John 14:6

As we begin walking out this new faith in Jesus Christ we discover how the
Word came to this world in the flesh for all who are lost and are wounded for
all time and today.  John 1

We may not realize this, but the god we serve – through our wounded heart is
called SELF.  Only those willing to see they are sick and look to the great
Physician will receive supernatural healing.  He will make Himself known
to all who genuinely want to find Him so we may know Him.  

When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no
need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the
righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” – Mark 2:17.

The issues of life will always be.  It is not until we see how we have lost
our way and some of us have even deliberately run from God.  We are not under
His care or protection and cannot ever hope to find what we need when we are in
this state. Until we acknowledge that we are like lost sheep who have strayed
from The Good Shepherd we cannot ever hope to be saved from our sorry plight.  God
sent His one and only Son so we may be rescued out of the snares sin brings us.
 He calls to us every moment of every day to take His Hand.  He will renew our
minds and give us peace.  He will fill us with His love.  We will find meaning
and purpose that depends not on what we have acquired or experienced in this
world or by obtaining acceptance by others.  He created us and knows us and
will secure us in Himself and we become partners with the God of the Universe
to fulfill His good pleasure in this world. He will open our eyes so we may see
and understand His love for us is found in Jesus Christ in the work He did on
the cross.

Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53