Who Controls You?
Most people do not like to think they are controlled by anyone or anything. We reject being controlled by the media. We react against some governmental impositions and rebel against a few laws. And then there are just some people that we do not respond well to.
In some way this is all just part of our nature. And that is the problem. It is our nature. However, as Christians we actually have a new nature apart from our original human nature. We have actually inherited and been in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit (the third person of the triune Godhead) who has baptized us (associated us) into the Church of Jesus Christ and sealed us until the day of redemption.
All of this is positionally true for every Christian. But practically speaking, the Holy Spirit also desires to fill us and lead us to live our lives so that we walk according to the Spirit and manifest the fruit of the Spirit.
When Christians are filled with, walk with, and are controlled by the Holy Spirit, we are experiencing a prequel glimpse of predestined greatness that is ours for all time. Walking with the Spirit is to be under the control of the Spirit and to keep in step with the Spirit.
As Lewis Sperry Chafer said about being filled with the Holy Spirit, "It is not a matter of acquiring more of the Spirit, but rather of the Spirit of God acquiring more of the individual."
Who controls you today?
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred