Doughnut

16 August 2012  

   

Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

This morning I woke up with a thought of a doughnut, now this wasn’t because a wanted a doughnut for breakfast, but that I was thinking about how to best describe a person that I had recently been in discussion with. Now a doughnut seems to have a lot of substance on the outside but the centre or inside is empty, of no substance. A cream and jam doughnut on the other hand is filled with nice sweet things and brings much enjoyment.

So even though we look at people and on the outside they seem to be substantial the test is on the inside as to whether they are a doughnut or not. I have met those who are in deep trouble who may be even mentally, emotionally or physically hurting or disabled, but they are still good jam doughnuts so to speak. What fills the centre of our lives and what we portray to others must be of substance, we must be like a sweet jam cream doughnut that brings sweetness it to the lives of all that taste of who we are.

No doughnut can fill itself, the baker needs to do it, neither can we fill ourselves, we need to ask Jesus Christ to fill us, and when He does it we are more than what we were before. We become a person of substance.

Be encouraged today to recognise that you are not a doughnut but a person of substance in Jesus Christ.

 

David

Point to ponder: Only Jesus can fill your emptiness.

Question to consider: What kind of a doughnut are you?