Do You Need A Refill?

Have you been to a good restaurant and run out of drink?  If you need a drink, you ask for a refill.  Maybe you’re on a road trip and all of a sudden, your low fuel light comes on, you need to stop and refill the car’s fuel tank.  Of course, we can’t forget those pesky drugs that keep our cholesterol and blood pressure in check have to be refilled every month.  Every few days I refill the birdbath with water and every so often I refill the bird feeders.  Refilling something is an ongoing process in our daily lives.

What about yourself?  What about your spirit, your soul, your being?  Does it ever need a refill?  Absolutely it does.  As Christians we have to constantly refresh/refill ourselves.  We have to take care of us in order to take care of others. There are many ways to refill and refresh ourselves: Prayer, reading the Bible, fellowship with like minded believers, reading other people’s writings and prayers, and attending church regularly.  Are you in a time and place to allow others to refresh you? Do you run from the building trying to be the first to leave the parking lot? Do you allow others to help refill you?

Some can go miles and miles without seemingly needing a refill.  But, why wait?  We should be refilling each other continuously and putting ourselves in a place to be refilled.  Wait, refill each other looks a lot like serving and isn’t that what we are supposed to do and be?  Servers.

Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

The traditional hymn was what I was first looking for but found the other two.  Three different flavors of music to hopefully help REFILL your spirit today. Allow yourself to be refilled with the Spirit today so you can refill someone else's.

https://youtu.be/eD7uEs1Nytc?feature=shared (YouTube video by Andrew Ripp )

https://songsofpraise.org/song.php?songid=112 (Recording by Tina Arseneau and Steve Israel) On the right side of screen click the first play button to hear the song, second and third buttons are music only if you just want to read the words.

https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/ns/340  ( Click and play the music as you sing or just read the words to the traditional hymn.)