Being Filled With The Spirit

     "...understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the Spirit."                                             Eph. 5:17,18

          Do you ever wonder what God's will for your life is? Here Paul makes it very clear - God's will for your life is to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

             What does that mean?

        Growing up in Church I heard the illustration of a jar filled with rocks getting water poured into it. The rocks were sin and the more rocks we took out, the more Holy Spirit could come in. The problem with that is that at salvation we don't get part of the Spirit, we get all of Him. According to Romans 8 Paul says you either have the Spirit (saved) or you don't (unsaved). As we are regenerated and receive the "seed" of God in us, just like Mary when she said,"may it be done unto me as you have said", we can't be partially pregnant - it's all or nothing.

         A better analogy might be a flask of perfume. When you take the cork off the top, eventually the fragrance would fill the whole room. Imagine then us receiving the Holy Spirit into our lives like a flask of perfume with a stopper on it. Our daily job is to pop that cork and let Him fill every nook and cranny of our lives. The degree to which we surrender is the degree to which we will be filled. Don't pop the cork of wine and be filled with fleshly indulgence but release the cork that says "not my will but thine be done so that He might increase and we might decrease.