Fill it up
Have you ever driven your car low on gas and the gauges chiming on you? I have. When this happens the only thing to do is pray to have enough gas to make it to the nearest gas station. What a relief when you finally find a gas station. You don’t care if it is the most expensive gas station in town. Just three words: fill it up. You are just grateful that your car didn’t ran out of gas.
Can you imagine that after filling up the tank you decide to stay in the gas station because you fear to run out of gas while you are on the road? It makes no sense. When you fill up gas it is because you need to use you car.
Sometimes we do something similar with our lives. At some point we realized that our lives were empty, and that they needed to be filled up. Then we found just what we need: Jesus. We also found plenty of “gas stations” (the bible, houses of worship, etc.) where we could frequently go to keep filling up our lives with the word of God. However, it seems like after we have been filled up, we leave, and then return with our “tank” still full.
Jesus wants our lives to be “full”
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full – John 10:10
But just as he did, he wants us to to be servants
Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many – Matthew 20:26-28
Our lives were not filled so we could stay “filled” without living life. That would have been non-sense. We are like jars (2 Corinthians 4:7). When a jar is filled it is because it is intended to be used. Our lives were filled so we can enjoy our lives at the same time we spend some of that “fullness” blessing others. Yes, sometimes we feel as we are running low on gas. But with Jesus there is nothing to worry. In the contrary: it is a joy to know that you will be able to spend time with him filling up our lives again.
There are no worries about finding a place to fill up your life. He is always available to fill our lives again and again: everywhere – every time.
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