God Can Fill The Void

The mother plays a crucial role in our development.

We are created in the mother’s womb and we aren’t even close to understanding the symbiotic relationship created their.

From our earliest moments in this earth we get nourishment
and nurturing from our mother.

Who can refute the maternal instinct and the protection and love that a mother normally feels toward their child.

MOTHERS hold us, love us, clean us, hug us, watch out for us, feed us, tell us stories, make us feel special and assure us that we are suppose to be. We get a sense that all is well and we are a very important part of the world. It is from the mother that we get our sense of being and “well-being” in this world.

Mother’s give your children a sense of well being through attention, unconditional love touch, praise and catching them doing good.

But no mother is perfect. We do not live in a perfect world. Each one of us have varying degrees of experience with our mothers.

Our parents try to be the best parents they can, but who hasn’t fallen from the mark? As we grow up we try to compensate for the lack of well-being we may have received .

Rick Richardson in his book, Healing Prayer, shares the results of lack of well being from the mother.

Separation anxiety
Anxiety, that feeling of unease without any real focus, worried, uncomfortable. Often the root of such constant anxiety and lack of peace is early separation from one’s mother. Mom wasn’t there to give a sense of security, peace and well-being. Needs for her presence, comfort and nurture went unmet, leading to a life of anxiety.

Deep fear of rejection
When there is a deep sense of anxiety over losing mother’s nurture and  presence the result can often be an intense fear of rejection.
Sometimes we cling to people other times we may reject before we are rejected. We are terrified of being unloved and yet at the same time we feel unworthy of love. Worst we feel that we cannot be loved.

Comfort seeking
When we feel anxious we long to be comforted. We want the uneasiness to go away. At a deep level we are wracked with pain from the loss of mother’s nurture and sense of rejection. We want to forget the pain or escape it for a while. So we seek comfort, sometimes in healthy ways, sometimes in unhealthy ways.
Unhealthy ways include addictions, excessive adrenaline rush , sexual release or some sort of escapism. For others of us the way we seek comfort is by becoming emotionally emeshed or dependent on others. Comfort is a good thing, but what we choose to comfort us is crucial.
 
What are we to do?

1. Separate our mother‘s inert love from their behavior. Seek to understand and forgive our mother’s action.
  
2. Re-correct your experience
With visualization and meditation you can re-experience your mother’s love and approval. You can experience her saying, “I love you.” “I am so sorry for how AI hurt you.” “I am so glad that you were born.” “You are very special.” “I’m so proud of you.” Can you see your mother saying that? By relating to your mother’s inert love you can see her relating to you in this way. The fact is you are loved by God and deserved to have your mother’s praise and unconditional love whether or not you received it.

3. Appropriate God’s nurturing and caring through being born again
Appropriate means “To take exclusive possession of something.”
We can complete the nurturing and care that we need through our born-again experience.

HERE IS THE KEY:
Jesus said, “You must be born again?” It is a spiritual rebirth. As we become children of God, He becomes our mother and father! We can receive from God a more complete nurturing, caring and sense of well being than any parent could ever give us. In Isaiah 49 the prophet writes, “Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.”

Have you ever considered what you receive when you are born again?
When we are born-again we appropriate:

God’s forgiveness
I John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

God’s grace
Ephesians 2:4-9
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressins—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

God’s blessing
Psalms 1:-3
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

God’s mission
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
 
God’s approval
Leviticus 26:9
I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

God’s attention
Psalms 139:1-10
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

God’s touch
Matthew 8:3
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy.
Matthew 8:15
He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.
Matthew 9:29
Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you”;
Matthew 17:7
But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”
Matthew 20:34
Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

Mark 1:41
Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”

Start to believe and accept all that God has for you as a BORN-AGAIN Child of God

4. Substitute lack of nurturing with God’s love and sense of well-being
We do this by experiencing the presence of God. Having God living in us, is what makes Christianity different than other religions. I’m not talking about some “new age” concept of high power or energy. I am talking about the abiding presence of God in the person of the Holy Spirit. When is the last time you really sensed that God lives in you?

We can experience the love of God and His nurturing presence.
Ephesians 2: 15-19
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Ephesians 3:16-21
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I pray that each of us will be able to accept from God a sense of well being , a deep understanding of His love for us.  We can do this by visualizing God saying:

I am so sorry that you were not able to completely understand how loved you are.
You are my child and very special to me
I am so glad that I created you.
I am so proud of you.
I love you so much.
I will never abandon you.
AMEN!

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