Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.

Be filled with the Spirit. – Ephesians 5:18.

Perhaps we have all of us yet to fathom the meaning of the sentence in the creed, “I believe in the Holy Ghost.” I am sure that we have no notion of what God could make us to be, and give us to have, and call us to do, and help us to learn, and enable us to suffer, and permit us to enjoy, if we would but try to understand our Lord’s own words: “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” Whatever hesitation there may be about our other prayers, there need be none with this. It is enjoined on us to “be filled with the Spirit.”
~ BOWEN

Scripture for opening text taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, ESV © 2016 by Crossway Bibles.
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