Minute Musings...Filled With...?

Have you ever watched a little one, trying to put something in a space that is already full? 
They eventually become very frustrated with this impossible task. Or perhaps you have even
had times when you've tried to squeeze just a little bit more into a container that is already
too full to start with!  What you end up with in a case like this, is a real mess to try to clean
up...at least that's what happens to me.  If something is full, there is no room for anything else,
no matter how hard you try!

It is the same in our spiritual lives.  What fills your heart?  If it is filled with worldly joys,
pursuits and dreams, there will be no room for the Lord.  You can't just squeeze Him into
a vessel that is already occupied with other things!  We are admonished in Ephesians 5:18b
"...but be filled with the Spirit."  And again in John 14:17, "Even the Spirit of truth;
whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him:  but
ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."

In order to be filled, we must first be emptied.  We are instructed in Ephesians 4, verse 29
"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth."  Verse 30, "And grieve
not the Holy Spirit of God,"  Verse 31, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you with all malice:"  The sweetness,
love, purity and righteousness of our God cannot inhabit the same place in the vessel of
our hearts that the world occupies. 

What is filling your heart today?  Are the pleasures of this wicked world taking the place
that rightfully belongs to your Lord and Savior?  Don't waste your efforts trying to cram
the Lord into this dirty place, it is a futile endeavour.  Empty, repent and let the Lord fill
your heart and life with His precious presence and peace.