“Deep calls to deep,” wrote the Psalmist in reference to the great longing of the soul for Him who alone fills all in all. Continuing in the same vein, Tozer writes, “In the warm language of personal feeling this is stated in the Forty-second Psalm: ‘As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?’ ” There is nothing in the whole wide world that can satisfy this God-filled vacuum save the fullness of God who designed it for such a purpose.
We may have the most flourishing ministry in the kingdom of God, but if our soul is not filled with the fullness of Him whom we serve, we come short of the most beautiful blessing that we have in Christ Jesus in the New Covenant. We may have the most successful career and all the wealth and respect we can dream of but if that God-shaped vacuum is not filled with the fullness of Him who occupies the heavens and the earth with His omnipresence, it profits us nothing.
Dr. A. B. Simpson described this fullness with an illustration which is as good as any we may hear. He said, “Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean. The bottle is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the bottle. The ocean contains the bottle, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with the Christian.”
This fullness is the purpose of our existence; the end to all our striving. It is the culmination of all righteousness. It is the peak of all faithfulness. It is the result of all love and kindness. It is the reason for all of our praise and worship.
Let us move further from the shore than we’ve ever done before. Let us make it the one thing that we ever want or need. Let us knock and ask and cry out. The One on the other side of that door answers. He is attentive to the cry of the righteous. Let Him come crashing over us. It is the best place we would ever want to be.
I revisited a video that I had watched several years ago; one in which Louie Giglio beautifully reveals our indescribable God. You may have watched it already but it is one worth watching again. The link is below:
To this indescribable God, magnificent and full of glory; to Him who has loved us with an everlasting love that did not hold back anything from us; to Him who is more than willing to fill our being with His manifest presence; indulging with us blessed fellowship and revealing to us the knowledge of His glory; to Him be glory and honour and praise now and always.
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