Yesterday in work the mains electricity was off, and so we ran on the back-up generator. We normally use this generator during the months when electric rises in price for businesses. Nothing weird or blog-worthy there.
But i started thinking of how we often use the Holy Spirit as a sort of 'backup' generator. Asking him to turn on (fill us) only at times when we feel we need extra power, such as before preaching, evangelism etc. . .
But the Holy Spirit is not some reserve power source, rather as Christians we would probably do well to ditch all other sources (self included) and live solely from the strength of the Spirit.
Just a quick thought.
Hope you have a great weekend