The Singer and the Song that Fills Hollow Hearts

5/19/2026

Satan spends “forever” trying to “hollow humans out.”

People seldom, initially, choose to be hollow.

Satan entices, lies, and threatens. Satan knows if he can “hollow us out” we will collapse and cave in—when the fires of media, and suspicion, and hatred, and loss come. That’s Satan’s only job.

And what a privilege to be alive and part of God’s plan to prove, as Job did, that we won’t take our eyes off of Jesus. No matter what.

And... God allows Satan’s tricks and sleight of hand and threats to test who we are determined to be when we grow up.

Lucifer, the devil, is frantically attempting to get a resonant frequency vibrating in us, or to distract us until we are numb or deeply despairing. Satan’s noise and static are intended to keep the Signal, the Music, from emerging as the Life and Love we follow.

That strategy is generally effective enough. For most. “Few will be those” who will fight for Jesus’ Music.

Satan wants to “hollow out” men and women, boys and girls, young and old, wealthy and poor, educated and uneducated—with vices and noise, or static, or soothing alternatives designed just for them.

Pleasure hollows those who allow it to do so... this year’s entertainment menu of social media, or podcasts, or Netflix, doom-scrolling, gossip, slander, sports, fantasies of romance, lust, adrenaline, travel.

Possessions—a comfy favorite blankie: houses, clothes, comfort, money, greed, and the quiet or obsessive want of more.

Position whispers: of power, influence, respect, reputation, inclusion, and the exhausting work of crafting how others see you.

Protection: drugging ourselves from fear, conflict-avoidance, approval-seeking, the chase of peace that we can never actually quite find.

Passions—revved for a moment but unsustainable and unrewarding attempts to fill the gaps: hobbies, causes, politics or social justice, obsession loops, distraction dressed up as purpose.

Underneath all of it—Poison does its slow work: Pride, selfishness, ego, and whatever substance keeps the noise from going to a quiet vacuum.

“If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames” (1Cor. 3:12-15).

Perhaps, though... the “quiet” is not a “vacuum” that we need to fear. Perhaps, the quiet can be the Rest of Jesus, and a place to be free from the noise and the static. To hear the Song. To hear the Music.

Perhaps, then, we are wise to the enemies’ attempt to “hollow us out.” Perhaps, we know the media and the shame are a small price to pay to “follow the Lamb wherever He goes.” Even when the world, as Jesus said, turns from green sapling to brown, dead, hot-burning bonfire fuel. “Weep not for Me, ladies.” Not fun.

We “despise” the “shame” but,

“Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking at, through, with Jesus the author and completer of our faith and trust and hope; who for the JOY that was set before Him—He endured the cross, despising the shame...” (Hebrews 12:1-2)

Who will be hollow, easily melted or crushed, appearing to be totally fine—until the pressure and heat arrive right on Schedule? The “hollow men and women” are those who choose symbol over life, stories over truth, posturing over abandonment.

Who will be solid and filled? Who will have “Rivers of living water gushing from the inner man”? Those who are given over to the Singer and the Song—and don’t easily allow the static, noise, and dilution to hollow them out, or to steal their joy and confidence in the blood of Jesus, and the Plan of His purging and redemption, of those who want and choose to love Him. By His faithful, loving, forgiving, enabling, unwavering hand, He can and will make us whole, complete that which He began in us.

Who will be Life? Those with the Oil, those with the wedding clothes, are those who did not allow the enemy to hollow them out, little by little. Those who emerge with supernatural life, Zoe Life, into the dimension that Jesus demonstrated and enabled us to participate in, the very “Divine Nature” as Peter called it, are those who did not allow the distractions and dilutions of the static and noise of this present age to “hollow them out.”

Who are able to “Taste the Powers of the Coming Age”? Those who are listening for the Signal, and will “Follow” the Singer and the Song all the way to the Finale, come what may.

“Did not our hearts burn within us when we walked along the way?” (Luke 24:32)

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9)

“...let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.” (Hebrews 12:1-2)

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18)

“Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.” (James 1:12)

“Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:13-14)

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. **But take heart! I have overcome.” -Jesus (John 16:23)

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