Something's Missing

I'm not alone
I wish I was
Cause then I'd know I was down because
I couldn't find a friend around
To love me like they do right now
They do right now

I'm dizzy from the shopping mall
I searched for joy but I bought it all
It doesn't help the hunger pain
And a thirst I'd have to drown first to ever satiate

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
Something's missing
And I don't know what it is
At all

When autumn comes
It doesn't ask
It just walks in where it left you last
You never know when it starts
Until there's fog inside the glass around
your summer heart

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
Something's missing
And I don't know what it is
At all

I can't be sure that this state of mind is not of my own design
I wish there was an over-the-counter test
For loneliness like this

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
Something's missing
And I don't know what it is
No I don't know what it is
Something's different
And I don't know what it is
No I don't know what it is

Friends... (Check)
Money... (Check)
A well slept opposite sex.. (Check)
Guitar... (Check)
Microphone... (Check)
Messages waiting on me when I come home... (Check)

How come everything I think I need always comes with batteries?

What do you think it means?

      The lyrics to this song so poignantly describes the emptiness of our lives without Christ. It talks about how lost and empty he feels though he's basically got everything in the world. How sad and frustrating life must be if you've got it all and yet still aren't satisfied.

      "I'm dizzy from the shopping mall. I searched for joy but I bought it all. It doesn't help the hunger pain and a thirst I'd have to drown first to ever satiate." He describes this inner emptiness as "hunger pains" and a "thirst" that he has to drown first to ever satiate. Talk about empty!

      He checks off everything he's got that should fill him. You got friends, money, sex, talent, success, fans, your own voice, and friends. What else do you need? But he's still not filled. And he says, "omething's missing and I don't know how to fix it. Something's missing and I don't know what it is at all." How sad and lost is this description of a person who should be joyful, but sees how his kingdom is a castle made of sand!

      People everywhere are trying to fill the void of their lives buy buying things, thinking it'll fill, but it doesn't. All these things the world is investing in is temporal. It doesn't last. What's missing is Christ. Jesus came to give us life that we may have it and have it to the fullest. He bled and died to put us back into a right relationship with Him.

"He became sin who had no sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor. 5:21).

      When we accept Christ, that broken fellowship with God is restored again and that void or the "God-shaped hole" as a famous theologian put it, is filled.

"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4: 13, 14)

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" (Matt. 5:6)

      Like the woman at the well, Jesus offers us "living water." If we would but ask Him for a drink, our souls would never hunger or thirst again. We would be blessed and we would be filled.


In response to you, John Mayer...

Christ is what's missing
And He knows just how to fix it
Christ is what's missing
And He knows just what it is
He's all

This entry was posted by Christopher Wu, on Monday, March 28, 2005. You can leave your response.