Refilling the Tank
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★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 from 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 begin to dissipate. All a person has to do to lose their “filling” is to live life. Life has its way of draining out the reality of the Holy Spirit in you. Just like 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.
The point
Like a car depletes gas through normal use, Christians lose their spiritual fullness through living life and must regularly refill with the Holy Spirit.