We do not know just how empty we were until we feel how fulfilled we are after salvation.  We do not realize how dull the colors of life were until we experience the beauty of new life in Christ. It has been many years since I made the decision to ask Jesus to be the Lord of my life; but salvation’s beautiful gift still warms my being each day.

The Hollow Place Is Filled

In the hollow-sounding place where heart-questions rest,
Where unspeakable sins are silently confessed;
The aching, seeking soul is stripped bare and unadorned,
And every excuse remains within unformed.
The once blinded eyes are able to see,
 The wretched condition of their great need.
In utter desperation as in repentance they reach to God above.
The light of the truth is delivered by His love.
Great celebration – greatly full and filled,
With new-birth in the favor of the Father’s will.
New, reborn…every fiber of being restored,
By the wonderful work of Jesus Christ, the Lord.
Sweet, holy words of love come from the once barren land;|
Alive and fully dressed in righteous robe as the Father planned.
The faith-filled eyes have new vision…joy and peace is ahead.
Hungry hearts thirst for the Word: as for Jesus, the Word they live.
Joyous, holy, harvest comes from the life made new and whole;
For in the once empty, hollow-place God lives and overflows.

Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

2 Chronicles 7:14

         If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.