Is your Christian walk boring?

How would you characterize your Christian walk?

Is it exciting?  Boring?  A daily drudge of religious activities?

Maybe another question is this - when was the last time you were genuinely excited, I mean emotionally pumped about your walk with God?

We all go through seasons of dryness is our pilgrimage with Christ.  And, sometimes those season can be quite lengthy.

Do you need the "rain" of the Holy Spirit to drench you, fill you and overflow your spirit and soul?

I would encourage you to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

If there is anything that will take your Christian experience from the mundane to the marvelous, it is the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Let me use this analogy:

When you leave church on Sundays, you go to your car and make your way home or out to dinner.

You will deplete the reserve of gas in the tank.  You don't have to be a bad person for your car to go form full to empty.   You just have to use the car.

If you drive, I can guarantee you, you will deplete gasoline.

Many times, when people leave church, they are spiritually full because of the time they spent singing praises to God and hearing his Word.  However, within two hours of being filled, their spiritual tank will be to dissipate.

And they are back to their old, boring, "filling my religious duty" way of life.

All a person has to do to lose their filling is to live life.  Life is hard.  Life has a way of draining out the reality of the Holy Spirit in us. 

Since last Sunday morning, when we powerfully experienced the presence of God, I have continually sat through a series of difficult meetings (difficult in the sense that we really have some tough choices to make).

My spiritual "high" has melted away like an ice cream cone in this heat that we are experiencing.

I find myself once again, "plodding on."

But just as a person who drives a car has to continue to make trips to the gas station to fill up and make the car run smoothly, Christians must continue to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Just some thoughts for a Wednesday.