Full of the Holy Spirit and full of mistakes?

To live a life filled with the Holy Spirit we do not have to be perfect. One of the things that many people do not understand is that the children of God are not perfect, that God chooses clay pots, chooses imperfect people to carry out His Work.

The fact that we have the anointing of God on us, this is not like a magic formula that solves all problems and avoids all mistakes, and that for the moment makes us perfect people who are not exposed to temptations and sins than any other human being.

Many people mistakenly reject the Pentecostal life and the Pentecostal environment because they certainly see in us, Pentecostals, so many errors, so many imperfections that we actually have and at some point perhaps we will talk about why many times in the world that identifies with the Spirit Holy and the gifts of the Spirit, there are sometimes so many errors, so many imperfections that lead many who are looking at us from the outside to reject that anointing that does exist, and moves, and manifests itself in the Pentecostal sphere.

Because there are many people who believe that if a person is filled with the Holy Spirit and has the power of God with him or her, then he should not make serious mistakes and must be a person who always moves correctly, and it is a mistake. The Holy Spirit and His Presence in our lives does not guarantee perfection. What we do with that power of the Holy Spirit in us, the way we administer and handle the power of God in our lives will determine to what level of perfection and success we live the Christian life.

Saul, despite having the Holy Spirit within him, did not submit to that Spirit, he did not let the Holy Spirit form him, work him and that is why he made big mistakes. One of the things that we have to understand is that when we receive the Power of the Holy Spirit we have to continually submit our lives, we have to ask that Spirit every day to fill more and more all areas of our being, and to leave us illuminating so that we can then use that energy, that great power that lives within us.

The Presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives does not exempt us from a very great degree of responsibility that we have to handle with reverence, with great care, with delicacy that power that God has entrusted to us.

If we don't keep that anointing of the Holy Spirit alive in us, if we don't let it change our imperfections and mold our character, if we don't use the wisdom that comes from the Presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, then the Spirit of God will just stay there as a great resource that we are not using to the fullest.

That is why I believe that the apostle Paul when he writes to Timothy, he says to Timothy: "I advise you to fan the fire of the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands." Why does Paul tell Timothy to fan the fire of God's gift?

Because the gift of God is in us, it is a gift, it is a gift, it is something that God puts in us but it touches us, we have the responsibility to enliven that gift in our lives every day, and enlivening means putting it into manifestation .

The word that is used in the original Greek, translated fan in Spanish, is a word that implies how to fan, how a fire is fanned so that it grows and expands, and widens when what there is is a tiny fire, an ember and we want the wood to catch fire, and then we fan it in such a way that that ember then becomes active fire.

Likewise, the ember of the Spirit of God dwells in us. We have all those imperfections, all that chaos as we said in the text of Genesis chapter 1, but then there has to be a creative process, a process of ordering where God little by little takes all those areas of negativity, disorder in our life and He is ordering them one by one, and turning them into an ordered and coherent mechanism that works effectively to carry out the purposes of God.

Saul I believe that when he received the anointing of the Holy Spirit from Samuel he did not understand that now he had to allow God to begin to work in him and deal with his defects so that he could then be truly used by God, and that the enemy he couldn't get a chance to come into his life and do the destructive things that the devil always wants to do in the lives of those that God wants to use.

We see that these men that God used greatly and that he filled with His Holy Spirit, for example: we see Saul, David, his son Solomon, all of them made very serious mistakes. Solomon ended up in spiritual disaster as an idolater, introducing idolatry to Israel even though God gave him a terrible anointing of wisdom and prospered him in great ways; but I believe that to the extent that these men did not submit their life, their character, and allow systemic sins to dwell within them, to that extent the enemy had an opportunity to do harm.

But the important thing to point out is this: you don't have to be perfect for the Spirit of God to move within you. What you have to do is be willing and open, and let the Lord come into your life, but once He comes into your life then you have to let Him work in all dimensions of your life so that you can powerfully use that Spirit of God. The responsibility is in your hands and God expects you to cooperate with His Spirit to bring the manifestation of His Spirit to its fullest fullness. God bless you and until our next meditation.