Filler Up

Filler Up

Being Filled with the Spirit

There was a time when you could drive your car to a full service gas station and an attendant would greet you with, “Do you want to filler up?” Once given the okay, he would fill the tank, raise the hood, check the fluids, belts, hoses and other components. This was a curtesy offered by the station to insure everything was in proper operating order.

As we live our lives, the troubles and trials of life wear us down leaving us empty and sometimes broken. It is important that we find God’s filling station, His word and time in prayer to allow him to fill us with His Spirit, and find and fix the broken pieces.

Paul instructed the Christians of Ephesus, And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;  Giving thanks always for all things unto
God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Eph. 5:18-20

The next time you find yourself running on fumes, your tires running low, battery growing weak, hose about to bust, and belt ready to break; (speaking of your walk with God), pull into Gods filling station and allow the Holy Spirit to fill you up and repair the broken pieces. There was a slogan used by Texaco in the sixties to promote trust in their company that said, “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.”  Remember, you can trust your heart to the one who created the stars.

Louis Edwards