Learn a lesson from the balloon!
Thursday, November 20, 2008 (11:08 am)
Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
The other day, our little one year old, Obadiah started playing with a blown up balloon left over from Elianna's birthday party this past weekend. When it accidentally popped in his face, Obi was a bit startled, as you might imagine. Thinking quickly, in order that he wouldn't start bawling, I grabbed an unblown balloon from the table, blew it up real big and then let it go. Boy did he love that! He started laughing hysterically as he watched this balloon fly quickly all around the room until it ran out of air and plopped down on the floor. As we playing this game, I thought of a funny analogy.
In a sense, I think we need to be like balloons, filled to entirety with God's breath and then let go to experience the ride of our lives. Equally important is that we recognize when we're running out of air — when we're depleted of His power, anointing, and purpose and need to run back to Him for more. Recieving the infilling of the Spirit is not a single event, but a lifetime of refilling, sothat we don't become useless for His Kingdom, trying to do things on our own strength. Amen?
The Lord doesn't entrust us with His power in order for us to sit around idly — but rather that we would boldly share the good news of the Gospel, and do great things for Him wherever He may take us. Let's get filled again today! Ask, seek, knock, read, worship, meditate on His promises, get FILLED! There's so much work to be done!
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