Filling the Void

“What does this greed and helplessness proclaim, except that there was once within us true happiness of which all that now remains is the outline and empty trace? Man tries unsuccessfully to fill this void with everything that surrounds him, seeking in absent things the help he cannot find in those that are present, but all are incapable of it. This infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite, immutable object, that is to say, God himself.” – Blaise Pascal, Pensées

What do you crave in your life? Is it love? Happiness? Something more specific, perhaps, like success or money or popularity? And are you ever satisfied? The account of Exodus 32 & 33 provides a remarkable picture of our need for God’s presence to fill the “infinite abyss” of our hearts. Nothing less will do.