Reflections

Filled with the Spirit

The great preacher , C.H. Spurgeon , pointed out in relation to the text 'be filled with the Spirit' Eph.5:18, that it is not simply an experience to be enjoyed but a command to be obeyed. In other words, if we are not filled with the  the Spirit then we are disobedient Christians, and in need of some serious heart searching and self-discipline.

The term 'be filled with the Spirit, as is so often pointed out, is in present continuous tense, and rightly translated reads, 'be being filled with the Spirit.' We are not to think of the fullness  of the Spirit as something we experience at some given moment to last us for the rest of our lives. It is a

daily ongoing moment dependency on the Spirit's power in our lives  to flow through us and out of us wherever we are and wherever we may go. It is this daily drinking of the waters of the Spirits that neeeds (in my opinion) to be emhasised in today's Church for far too many believers tend to look to  some experience they received in the past, instead of relying day by on a fresh supply of the Spirit to fill and flow through their lives.

A Christian who is filled with the Spirit, in the sense it is described here, will have every compartment in his heart completely open to the Spirit's residency and presidency. And what will be the result? Probe the context and you will see. Your home, your business and your Church will all feel the effect of it when your life is being filled with the Spirit of God will never stop giving as long as we never stop receiving.