Devotion 18

I passed the room for Children’s Ministry yesterday when I was doing the security duty at OCM, and teacher was asking the kids: “What does the Holy Spirit do to us?” Hmm, I actually couldn’t come up with an answer to that question at that moment…

When we think of being filled with the Spirit, we may relate it to some emotional experience, a moment of spiritual high, a feeling of God’s presence…

Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. – Ephesians 5:17–18

God is saying that we should let His Spirit fill us and control our lives, like the sails being filled and guided along by the wind. This is not a one-time thing. Just as we repeatedly fill the gas tanks in our cars to keep them running, we also need to be refilled with the Holy Spirit over and over again.

Only in this way can we move from ‘Spiritual High’ to ‘Spiritual Growth’, moving beyond the Spiritual High we experience at the moment of salvation and growing in our relationship with Christ.

Remember to seek God's wisdom and the guidance from the Holy Spirit through prayers. "Always pray before planning", from today's Daily Bread. :P

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. - Titus 3:4-7