Infilled

There used to be a show on TV, where average folks would submit to numerous plastic surgery procedures in an attempt to make themselves look like a favorite movie star.  Crazy you say, well, yes, but how many times have you wished to be like someone else.  Perhaps it wasn’t as drastic a move as these people made, but I’ll bet you can think of a few instances.  What boy wouldn’t desire the athletic talents of Albert Pujols, Tiger Woods or Tony Parker?  I, myself, always wanted the singing voice of Linda Ronstadt, and every girl has a famous model or celebrity they want to be.  “Oh, if only I could be filled with just some of their beauty, talent, brains etc., then I’d be happy for the rest of my life”, is the longing of so many hearts.  Let’s imagine there was a way to siphon off desirable traits from other people, and intravenously place them in ourselves; would you do it?  It’s tempting, isn’t it?  I would be a beautiful, young, smart, rich chanteuse. Alas, no matter how good I looked or sang, eventually it would fade.  Even those plastic-surgery altered bodies will sag, or they’ll desire to look like some new “hottie“.  God made us all in His image, His spiritual image.  So, while our exteriors vary wildly, we all have the option to invite His Holy Spirit into our interiors.  Sadly, many of these dissatisfied people would mock that eternal invitation.  If I were to tell these same folks that I knew how fill myself with wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miraculous powers, prophecy and much more, their ears might perk up for a while, then chuckle smugly when I told them they were all freely available from God…no scalpels needed! Oh the lengths we go to find happiness, temporal as it may be, when eternal joy, with all its supernatural gifts, is genuine and costs nothing .  Why settle for an infilling that will crumble, fail, sag and die…instead, be like Micah 3:8 as he proudly urges us, “But as for me, I am filled with power--with the Spirit of the LORD.”