So for just a second let’s view the Holy Spirit as a cup of water, okay. If you have that cup slightly filled you can pretty much run without worrying about spilling that water, right? But if you have that cup filled to the brim you have to walk differently and not so recklessly so you don’t spill the water everywhere! This is the new walk I am walking, filled with the Holy Spirit but not just a cup filled, an ocean!
My cup is an ocean, and overflowing ocean. The Holy Spirit fills me, I am going to bump into so many people… well, not just bump… run over (metaphorically of course) and just spill the Holy Spirit all over them. I want to give these people the gift of SEEING the Holy Spirit, not just KNOWING about him. I want to show what a life with the Holy Spirit is like. I am going to walk this new walk filled with joy given by OUR Lord and Savior. I am going to share my love and model Jesus’ unending love and joy for others all at the same time. I am accepted by The Holy Spirit. He doesn’t just come in to our lives to visit, He comes to stay!
I want to encourage those around me to join this new walk. But we all must get into a mindset. A mindset that no one is worthy of Christ’s love. Not a single one. Yet we are still swimming in it. We need to understand that because we are Christians we do not have an advantage. We all are sinners. However we do have a benefit because we know we are forgiven. We have to model faithfulness, by making it known we are Christians, non-believers will often look to us and if we are unfaithful we make God appear unfaithful.
Romans 3:10-12
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good, not even one.”
I must admit when I first read these couple verses I was like “what, I do good? I am seeking God? Yes I am faulty but not even one?” Then I realized that’s it, I am faulty, we all are, the ONE who IS RIGHTEOUS is JESUS. God gave his son to die for our sins, everyone’s sins, to demonstrate his righteousness, love and forgiveness. So I continued to read because that bible is filled with some good stuff ya know!
Romans 3:26
“He did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.”
Romans 4:7-8
“Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”
Agh I love this, God constantly reminds us that we are justified and forgiven because of the gift of Jesus’ sacrifice. We are washed clean and we can help wash others clean through Jesus by being the hands and feet!
Romans 12:1
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God — this is your true and proper worship.”
If we all get into the mindset that no one of us is better than the other. That the house you live in, amount of money in your pocket, car you drive, clothes you wear or the number of Sundays you’ve spent in church doesn’t amount to righteousness or, make you better than that homeless drug addict on the side of the street unknowing of Jesus. Then, then we will be able to reach many. Then we will be able to walk a walk filled with an ocean of the Holy Spirit’s grace.
We can have this true unending relationship with the Almighty and can share that relationship. We are children of the one TRUE KING! A child that when God finished making said “it is very good” He said that about you! We are enough. We are strong, beautiful, loved by our Father. Forever forgiven. We are very good.
Can I get an amen, hallelujah, praise Jesus?
So what do we have to be ashamed of? What is holding us back from spilling the Holy Spirit on to those around us? Find that child like faith again where you let Jesus show you the way. Get ready to grow. Get ready to be filled and spill, filled and spill it’s an unending cycle.
Joyfully,
Kell
