被聖靈充滿
以弗所書五章15至21節
15你們要謹慎行事，不要像愚昧人，當像智慧人。
16要愛惜光陰，因為現今的世代邪惡。
17不要作糊塗人，要明白主的旨意如何。
18不要醉酒，酒能使人放蕩；乃要被聖靈充滿。
19當用詩章、頌詞、靈歌、彼此對說，口唱心和的讚美主。
20凡事要奉我們主耶穌基督的名常常感謝父神。
21又當存敬畏基督的心，彼此順服。
信息分享
我們若叫聖靈擔憂，就無法真正經歷到聖靈豐豐富富的充滿我們的生命。「叫聖靈擔憂」的意思，就是違背聖靈的心意，去做祂不喜悅的事，或不做祂喜悅的事。當聖靈的心意是要我們各人得著豐盛的屬靈生命，然而，我們卻沒有照祂的心意去努力追求得著這種生命，我們就是叫聖靈擔憂。
那麼，「被聖靈充滿」是甚麼意思呢？首先，大家一定有過被恐懼充滿的經驗吧？當你充滿恐懼的時候，你會嚇得全身發軟，不能動彈，甚至說不出話來。那刻，你已經被恐懼所操控。
同一道理，當你被聖靈充滿的時候，你也同樣是被聖靈所操控。第18節提醒我們不要醉酒。一個喝醉酒的人，會被酒精所控制。然而，信徒既已藉著聖靈重生，他的生命就應該被聖靈所掌管。
一個被聖靈充滿的人，不一定會大叫大嚷，或興奮得手舞足蹈，甚或是說另一種方言。以賽亞書三十二章17節說：「公義的果效必是平安，公義的效應必是平穩，直到永遠。」
怎樣才能被聖靈充滿呢？我們只要祈求聖靈的充滿，祈求祂每天掌管我們的生命，聖靈就會主動充滿我們了。
願我們每天清晨，都以這樣的禱告來開始一天的生活：
「主耶穌，我把我的生命交給你，祈求聖靈今天親自引領我走當行的路。」
BEING FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
Ephesians 5: 15 – 21
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
Message
You cannot really know the fullness of the Spirit if you are grieving him. To grieve him means to do the things he does not want us to do or to fail to do those things he wishes us to do. We grieve him when we live on a low level of spiritual experience when he has planned for us the very highest level of all.
What does it mean to be ‘filled with the Spirit’? You know what it is to be filled with fear don’t you? It is to be so frightened that you cannot move or even speak. Fear has taken control of you.
In the same way when you are filled with the Spirit, you are under his control. Verse 18 speaks about not being drunk with wine. A drunkard is controlled by what he has been drinking. A believer should be controlled by that which has come into his life, that is the Holy Spirit.
If a man is filled with the Spirit, he is not necessarily noisy, or highly excited or even speaking in another language. Isaiah 32:17 says that ‘the work of righteousness shall be peach and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever’.
How is a person filled with the Spirit? Be asking the Spirit to fill him, to control him day by day. Each morning breathe this daily prayer as soon as you awake:
‘Lord Jesus, I give myself to you for this day that your Holy Spirit may have his way in me today!’ Why not start today with that prayer?