Job 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

I have been thinking about what it takes for any one of us to come to Christ. While my story is different from yours I believe that the underlying cause is the same, even if the surface tale sounds different. It all stems from this first cause, self-realization. “If I” is loaded with doubt about self-sufficiency, it acknowledges the need for help obtaining something which self cannot grasp on its own. The reason I say something is because until you know, that something is an unknown.

It begins with an awareness of something missing. You hear words and promises and testimonies and you search yourself and find nothing. Nothing you have done or thought, believed or trusted in has filled that empty place where you are truly alone, in self.

The treasure trove of the heart cannot be filled with things because the nature of things cannot match the very nature of self. Nothing that I can obtain for self can fill that treasure trove, there is no way to place things in a box which has no lid. That treasure trove will always be empty not matter how many things you place upon it, not in it.

Luke 2:34-35 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

Only the love of Jesus Christ can pierce the lonely heart and fill it from within, because He gave His Self in order to do so.

All you have to do is love Him for what He did, that which you could not do, and be filled with that love you did not know until you knew it.

Do this and you will never be alone again.