Fluid power

Imagine having the strength to tame a 3000 lb. beast and have such power over it that it responds to your every command: to go...to stop...to move in virtually any direction at your will.  All this not only is possible but taken by most of us for granted daily.  Before leaving for the Men's Retreat this past Friday I stopped at an auto parts store to top off some of the key fluids in my van.  This trusty vehicle has gone well over 250,000 miles over the past 14 years and I was a little concerned about the trip out to the mountains.  So I topped off the brake fluid and transmission fluid and checked the oil, power steering and antifreeze.  All of these tend to leak a little on the aged beast.  As I was rolling west it occurred to me that those fluids convey great power and keep the engine cool.  They multiply my strength to steer, shift and stop the vehicle through hydraulic principles.  Of course the gas in the tank transforms into explosive power, harnessed in the engine and driving the front wheels onward...even up the mighty mountain.  The antifreeze came in handy because temperatures dropped below freezing at night (we even had a few inches of snow!)  I thought about the Holy Spirit and how the Lord had described this marvelous spiritual fluid.

 

Some examples of spiritual fluid power:

John 11:2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Matthew 14:29 So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.

John 3:23 Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

John 7:38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing  in Him would receive;

I use oil and water in my van but it doesn't compare to the fabulous fluids of the Lord!

blessings,

Rob Smith