An illustration using a glove: If this glove represents our house or temple (our body) you’ll see that by itself it’s empty, pointless; lifeless. It might look nice in appearance on the outside but if the glove is not used for the purpose for which it was created, it’s useless; a wasted life. We were created to glorify God. When we accept Jesus and become a Christian the Holy Spirit comes and dwells with us. To demonstrate, the Holy Spirit is like my hand that fills the glove (place hand inside) and now the glove is full of life it can fulfil the purpose for which it was created.

Why is it, then, when it comes to knowing God and our being filled with the Spirit, that we so often settle for less than we should; we settle for a part filling! It’s because we get so distracted and preoccupied with other things, worries and concerns that we end up quashing the Spirit, ignoring Him or treating Him as an occasional visitor rather than the owner/occupier. Like living in the same house as someone but hardly ever seeing each other or talking together, and then when you do finally get to communicate there’s a distance between you… until, that is, you reinvest the time needed to renew your relationship.

R. Ian Seymour

An illustration using a glove: If this glove represents our house or temple (our body) you’ll see that by itself it’s empty, pointless; lifeless. It might look nice in appearance on the outside but if the glove is not used for the purpose for which it was created, it’s useless; a wasted life. We were created to glorify God. When we accept Jesus and become a Christian the Holy Spirit comes and dwells with us. To demonstrate, the Holy Spirit is like my hand that fills the glove (place hand inside) and now the glove is full of life it can fulfil the purpose for which it was created.

Why is it, then, when it comes to knowing God and our being filled with the Spirit, that we so often settle for less than we should; we settle for a part filling! It’s because we get so distracted and preoccupied with other things, worries and concerns that we end up quashing the Spirit, ignoring Him or treating Him as an occasional visitor rather than the owner/occupier. Like living in the same house as someone but hardly ever seeing each other or talking together, and then when you do finally get to communicate there’s a distance between you… until, that is, you reinvest the time needed to renew your relationship.

R. Ian Seymour