Empty Jars
2 Kings 4
3 And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. 4 Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.” 5 So she did as she was told. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. 6 Soon every container was full to the brim! “Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons. “There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing.
There are people all around us who are like the jars in this story. They are empty. They may be filling their lives with countless things (relationships, accomplishments, money, stuff, etc), but they have never been filled with life in Christ. The good news is God loves our emptiness. He loves to fill empty jars.
God wants to fill our emptiness with his spirit! In the Old Testament, olive oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. In this story we learn that the oil continues to overflow out of the jars until there are no more empty jars left to be filled. If we bring empty jars to him, he will fill them!
I want to encourage you to begin gathering empty jars and bring them to God. Maybe you are the empty jar. Perhaps you have friends who need to filled with life in Jesus. Invite them to Generation 1:9 this weekend! Go, gather all the emptiness you can find (in yourself or in others) and bring the emptiness with you THIS Sunday night. When we bring him our empty jars, he will pour himself into us!
Go find some empty jars and bring them to God this Sunday!
