| Life should be
fulfilling, you reason, since there isn't anything that you really need
Yet-- and this you would probably never admit to anyone--you feel that
something is missing from your life. It doesn't make sense, does it? You have everything, but inside, you still feel an emptiness. Actually it feels like...yes...you're really alone! That's the success and emptiness that singer Marilyn McCoo experienced. "I had reached a period in my life when I began to think about all of the things I was fortunate to have accomplished. I had everything, but over a period of time I began to realize that there was still something missing. But how? How could I have all of the things that I could ever dream of and still feel as if something was missing from my life? "This didn't make any sense to me, so I decided that I wouldn't tell anyone, not even my husband, Billy Davis, jr. If I told him that my life seemed incomplete, I was afraid that he might take it personally. And I dared not tell my friends because they might feel that I was spoiled or just plain ungrateful. I could almost hear them say, 'Well, what more do you want, honey? I mean, you have everything!' "I knew that no one would understand, so I didn't talk about it. Still, the emptiness was there. The more I realized it was there, the more I wanted to just get rid of the...this ache in my heart. "Billy and I had dinner together one night with our friends, Bunny and Frank Wilson. Afterwards, as Bunny and I were talking, seemingly out of nowhere she said, 'Marilyn if you ever sense that there is a void in your life or that something's missing, it's the Lord Jesus calling to you.' "I couldn't believe that she knew about my feelings of emptiness because I hadn't mentioned them to anyone! 'Tell me about the void,' I said. "During the next two weeks, Bunny called me ever day and encouraged me to start reading the Bible, beginning at the book of John. I never thought that I'd be picking up the Bible and actually reading it, but by now that pain was so great that I wanted to do anything to get rid of the emptiness. Two weeks later, I received Jesus Christ as my Savior." Says Marilyn today, "The Lord continues to use me in the secular music world because He needs us in all areas of life. He wants us to present ourselves as an alternative to those who are hurting inside. There's a song that I recorded which really expressed my heart and the way that I try to live my life for the Lord. I encourage you to be a warrior."
I take the sword of the Spirit in my hand, Chorus of Warrior for the Lord, Warner Brothers Records,
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