What does that mean? What is dying empty all about? I first heard this phrase years ago from a worship leader I have the utmost respect for, and even then I didn't really understand it. In recent years however, I'm coming to more fully grasp the concept.
Dying empty is about giving out of your portion, not your abundance.
It's about sharing life with the people around you - not just the ones you like or who are like you.
It's about the dollar you put in the homeless mans cup - not because you think he'll actually use it to buy something to eat, but because you heard the Holy Spirit urge you to do it.
It's about the boy in your neighborhood who looks like one of the thugs who beat your son and forever changed his life - but you invite him in to dinner anyway because you know that the love you possess can change his life.
Dying empty has to do with that mission trip that keeps niggling at the back of your mind.
It's the extra room you keep ready for the person you DONT KNOW who needs a place to sleep.
It's standing up and opening your mouth and worshiping God even when you don't feel something stirring inside of you simply because obedience is better than sacrifice.
Recently, I discovered a group of people who celebrated a portion of donations that were given to a particular ministry. Likewise, I know a group of people whose donations were never noticed, even though by comparison, they gave considerably more. They are the quiet ones who live in the shadows, never drawing attention to their actions, and never expecting anything more from their giving except to die empty.
I want to live in that camp - the life where once I'm gone, people will never talk about the things I owned or the abundance in which I lived, but rather will say, "She gave because she wanted to die empty."
