Only with the recognition that we are dependent on God to fill it will it ever be filled. We have hidden its opening beneath heaps of denial. Determined to fill ourselves, we have obscured the only prospect for being truly full. Jesus seems to blur the cause and effect relationship between sin and disaster. Then he connects the two again with his warning.
Disaster finally arrives for voracious, empty people.
They attract each other. Likewise, disaster can reach out and include those who repent, those who open themselves to God's filling, but their death is not the same disaster. They die in the Lord and to the Lord. Death ends our ability to fill ourselves, but it doesn't change God's ability to fill us. May these words strengthen you for your service.