Is it really THAT easy? Why do I feel empty more often than I feel full?
The promise is repeated in Ephesians 3:16-19: "I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit, and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
What would it really look like to be filled with the all the fullness of God in our everyday lives?
I would feel full if I immediately relied on His power when my circumstance is painfully difficult...
if I remembered to stand firmly in His love when I want to give up on that hard-to-love person...
if I could comprehend His love for me when my mind wants to dwell on inadequacy and failure!
He says to me, "Open your mouth wide and I will fill it."
More often than not, I close my mouth to God. I'm the toddler whining, "I want to do it, Dad!". Seriously, God... I know how to feed myself! I can find the right job, the right spouse, the right ministry opportunity. I can lose that weight, fight this temptation, fix that person through my own valiant efforts. God, you'll approve of my choices. You would want me to try to do something.
But if God in His fullness isn't master of my every thought and action, my striving is hopelessly futile.
I need to go with God. Let Him do it.
I need to preach it to myself — Open your mouth wide and let Him fill you!