Don’t forget to take your charger …

It was obvious someone had helped themselves to my cell phone car charger.

I had turned in my rental car and, while waiting for my flight at the airport gate, I discovered my cell phone car charger was missing from my brief case. I had used it in the rental car, so I must have left it in the car. I called the rental company to see if they would hold it for me, but they reported there wasn’t a charger found in the car I turned in.

Oh well.

On my way home, I stopped at the local AT&T store and picked up another car charger for my cell phone.

That’s just one charger I had. I kept another charger in my office, and had another that stayed in my brief case or back pack so it was with me wherever I went. I had yet another charger at home … “just in case.”

Because my cell phone was a primary means of staying in contact with people via voice, text, email, and social media, it was important to have a charger available so I could have power anywhere I found myself in order to stay in communication with others.

That’s how times are these days, we travel with our chargers!

As Christians, there’s another Power Source we need to have with us at all times to help us with our communication with others. It’s the power of the Holy Spirit, who can provide us with direction in our communication when we most need it.

Jesus said in Luke 12:11-12, “And when you are brought to trial in the synagogues and before rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how to defend yourself or what to say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what needs to be said.” Although Jesus is referring to times of persecution here, the Holy Spirit helps us in various times in our need to communicate correctly with others. Even in communicating with God, the Holy Spirit helps us when we just can’t find the right words. Look at what the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:26-27:

“26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.”

Better than a cord we have to remember to carry around with us, the Holy Spirit is our Power Source for life who lives within each believer, as described in John 14:16-17, “16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.”

As Christians, we don’t have to remember to take the Holy Spirit with us since He dwells within each of us. But having that constant Source of power is beneficial only if we use it by yielding to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Do you allow the Holy Spirit to be your source of power for living? Do you stay plugged into God’s will for your life through the direction of the Holy Spirit? How do you let the Holy Spirit lead you as a Christian?

Scotty