Daily Java: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. – Romans 15:13.
Bob Dylan wrote a song that said, You’ve got to serve somebody. It may be the devil, it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna serve somebody.
It always struck me as really strange that Bob Dylan would write something that was so incisive. After all, he is not the go-to guy for theology.
But it is true. You are going to serve somebody in your life. The point is to make it God.
In the same way, you are going to be filled with something. It may be despair, it may be lust, it may be greed, it may be joy. There is something that will be important to you in your life. And it will fill you because it is important.
If God is important, he will fill you. And his filling will be with joy and peace.
Are your filled with fear? It isn’t from God if you are. Because 2 Timothy 1:7 says that isn’t from God. Power, love, self-discipline – those are from God. Lust? It is hard to even walk around the mall today without running against things that 50 years ago would have been pornography. The Spirit of God gives you the ability to replace that with peace.
Being filled with the Spirit isn’t magic, it is surrender.
You give yourself over to him and he fills you with what he wants you to be filled with. Leave him, and something will fill you. After all, nature abhors a vacuum and something is going to come in.
You are going to be filled with something. Your choice is what it will be.
You can be filled with God or you can be filled with evil.
Your choice.
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