Excerpts from my book UncommonCommonSense/ Practical Spirituality
One day, I began to question what it really means to serve God. I had just heard about someone who made a great contribution to feeding the hungry, and I felt I had done nothing of that magnitude. So I asked God if He wanted me to take up some righteous cause in the world and was surprised at His answer. He told me that many people are doing things for God and few are “being” with Him. He explained that He is the ultimate “doer” and can “do” anything He wants. What is lacking is having someone to keep Him company!
He pointed out that man, instead of sharing the creation, became enamored with it and forgot all about Him. This would be like wanting to spend time with a friend you love and deciding to go to the county fair together. It was something you planned to do together and being together was the primary motivation of the plan. Once there, the fair is so interesting you forget you went there to see it and share it with your friend. In fact, you become so involved with what’s going on at the fair that you forget about your friend completely. You become disconnected and lose contact with your friend altogether, lost in the fair. This is how we are with God. The world is the fair and He is our truest friend.
He created each of us as a unique way to share His creation. No one can fill the empty spot in God which we are created to occupy except us. He is un-full “filled” until we are back in our rightful place with Him. He showed me this sentiment on the beach one day when I found a beautiful piece of polished beach glass. It had an unusual shape and the artfully sculpted edges looked deliberately designed. God told me to stick it into the moist compacted sand and then pull it out. He asked if there was anything else in the entire universe that would fit precisely back into the impression it had left. He pointed out that only what had come out of that mold could fit perfectly back into it and that this is the way it is between Him and us. No one else but us can fill the void in God’s heart which we created when we separated from Him. He wants us back!