Fill ‘Er Up

You might be old enough to remember the days when gas stations, then called filling stations, were not self-service pumps at a convenience store. Instead, they were full-service for your vehicle. The attendant, who also probably had grease under his or her nails from working on a car in the garage bay, came to your car to “service” it. They cleaned your windshield, checked your fluid levels, put air in your tires, and asked how much gas you needed. The response often was – fill ‘er up! If you wanted a soda, they brought you one of those, ice cold from the dented and rusty soda bottle ice box inside the station. And long long ago, before the introduction of self-starting engines, these same attendants also manually started your re-engine with a hand crank.

What is the one thing every internal combustion engine needs to operate? Of course, you know the answer – gasoline. The price of gasoline fluctuates all the time and if you are like me that price usually goes down the day after you filled up your tank. Without fuel, the engine simply does not work. Just as we need to fill our automobile up with gas for it to operate, we need our souls regularly filled too, otherwise our internal tank begins to run on fumes before eventually becoming totally empty.  

Today I offer the verses below as a prayer for you. God wants nothing more than to strengthen you through the love of Jesus Christ and by power of the Holy Spirit so He can dwell deeply within you.

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3:14-21)

So, today, and tomorrow, and every day thereafter, will you allow God to fill you up and do the immeasurable in your life? And are you also willing to pray this “fill ‘er up” request for someone in your life as well as for yourself? Imagine the ripple effect it would have if we all asked God for more of His presence and His power in our own lives and in the lives of those around us!

Fill ‘er up!

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