Ride of Your Life

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 spoke the word of God with boldness.

The other day, I wrote about staying plugged into our Power Source. I read something this morning that gave me a different perspective of the same topic. Have you ever taken a balloon, blew it up real big and then let it go? The balloon will jettison around the room until it runs out of air before falling empty and depleted on the floor.

We have an opportunity 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. Receiving the infilling of the Spirit is not a single event, but a lifetime of refilling, so we don’t become useless for His Kingdom, trying to do things on our own strength.

This lead me to think about balloons filled with helium. I had a mental picture of Christians floating upward on the current toward the sky without any power to steer into a specific direction. We can be like, too. We can get so focused on reaching heaven ourselves that we are not useful to Him in taking the message to others. It’s all about us.

In the first example as balloons filled with God’s breath, that power is used to propel us forward. It is God’s power inside us moving us forward as it is utilized for His purposes. If we are content to float, inflated with concerns of self, we may think our ascent is purposed but is it God’s purpose for our lives?     

The Lord doesn’t entrust us with His power in order for us to sit around idly or float leisurely to heaven — 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, and get filled with His power for His purposes.It's the ride of your life!