Spiritual Emptiness-Being Empty

When we think of being spiritually empty, we can sum it up as: the state of being completely disconnected to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It is being dry and void of everything that can connect you to the Lord. Non-believers and believers can experience being spiritually empty when they feel separated from God because of sin, try to fulfill a void that only the Lord can fill, when they are not in the Word of God, and many other reasons.

One of the main explanations as to why remaining spiritually dry can be dangerous is because the enemy and his demonic kingdom love to live in empty, dry, places. He loves to attack us when we are spiritually depleted because he knows that those are our most vulnerable moments as believers of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 5:8 is very clear when Peter states, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Peter is letting us know the necessity of remaining sober (collected in spirit and unto the offering of prayer, and vigilant (to watch, be cautious, and active) because the enemy is lurking searching for people to devour. What that really means is the fact that there are believers and non-believers alike that the devil can and will devour.

When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, prayed up, your boots laced up, and you are continually in your Word, the devil will have a difficult time coming against you! One of the quickest ways to become a victim at the hands of the enemy is to be living a life of sin. The fact of the matter is that sin creates a wedge between you and the Lord. When there is distance in your relationship with God, you are a prime candidate for the devil’s attacks.

One thing that we need to make sure that we understand is that material things will never replace the spiritual emptiness that a person may feel. All that will do is temporarily fulfill your fleshly desires for that one moment. A passage of Scripture that gives us an example of how you can replenish your spirit if you feel void of the Lord is found in John 7:37-38. “On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Here we can clearly see that Jesus is declaring to us that if we are thirsty (spiritually dry and depleted) we can go to Him. The word “thirsts” is the Greek word “dipsaō” which means: to suffer from thirst, those who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened.

In other words, it’s a spiritual replenishing that can only come from the Lord. It is living water, which is another description of the Holy Spirit, that will fill a believer of Christ up to capacity. It is such a refilling that the living water will actually flow through you and touch those around you! That is how potent God’s living water is!

Let’s take a closer look at what the words spiritual empty means out of the book of Matthew.