Ephesians 5:18-19, “And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music from your heart to the Lord”

“And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit.” As a drunk gets drunk on wine and no longer is in control of their actions, so we are called to be filled by the Spirit and no longer in control of our actions.

We were discussing about this verse and the question, “what does it mean to be filled?”, was thrown out. I love my friend’s response, “When we are filled, there is no room for anything else because we are full.” So when we are filled with the Spirit there is no room for our selfish desires, no room for friends and family to control us, only the Spirit. Not that we can’t do what we love or be influenced by others, the Spirit isn’t against those things, but we can always put them aside and follow where our filling leads.

An 86 year old man who is still energetic for Christ told us how he fills up with the Spirit every day. In the morning he asks God to be in every part of his body–God, I pray I would only see the things your eyes see, I want to go where you want me to do, so you control my legs today–that’s one example of how this man fills up and is controlled by the Spirit.

Do you fill up with the Spirit? And what does it look like?