06/18/2026
EMPTY definition: containing nothing, not occupied or inhabited; lacking substance, meaning or value
There was a point that I have found myself empty. It was hard to wrap my head and heart around it. It was so counter culture to me.
I was asking my past, “What have you been taught, trained, encouraged?” And I still came up with answers that left me feeling...
EMPTY.
That word has always had a negative connotation to me, “half empty”, visions of lack, abandonment and not enough. Things that that I thought I had put behind me and under the Blood of Jesus were trying to take me captive. I cried everyday, crying out to the Lord, sharing with my husband, praying what I could get out of my mouth that made some sort of sense… Then I was led to a bible story that was one of my favorite episodes of the original Superbook.
2 Kings 4:1-7 ...“My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”“What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied. And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. 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.” So she did as she was told. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. 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. When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what is left over.”
This life has many ways of pulling and taking: financially, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and relationally. And we may find ourselves overdrawn, in debt, dry, and thirsty… be ready for the Lord’s instructions… you may look around and see “nothing at all” for Him to work with but get ready to ask people around you and all that EMPTINESS will be filled!
-Pastor Elena Robles
