There's a story that was told about a wealthy lady who lived in the early part of the 1900s

in one of the coastal towns in Scotland. Although she was very well off, she had a reputation

in the town as being very frugal.

And so imagine the surprise of her neighbors when they heard that she was going to be the very first person in town to install electricity into her house.

It was a big surprise to them.

A couple of months later, she had a knock on the door

from the electric company representative.

Madam, is the electricity working okay?

She said, oh yeah, the electricity is just working fine. And he said, well, can I ask you a

question? Why does your meter show that you have hardly used any electricity? She said, oh yeah,

yeah, yeah, I use electricity. When the sun goes down, I turn the lights on long enough

to light all the candles in my house. And as soon as I finish lighting the candles, I turn

the electricity off. And I read this and I thought, what an example of so many Christian believers today. They are connected to the power

of the Holy Spirit, but they scarcely use it. Like this lady, they are tapped into the power,

but they're living by candlelights. They are connected, but they're not altered.

They had the resources at their disposal, but they choose to live on partial light.

On a spiritual level, this is truly a picture of what is happening in our culture today among believers.

They are living their lives, quenching the Holy Spirit of God, to whom they are connected.

They are connected to the Holy Spirit by the very fact that the Holy Spirit indwelling at the time of

salvation, but then they choose to live by man-centered answers. They are indwelt of the Holy Spirit,

and yet they follow man-made formulas and man-made steps and programs. They are given the power

and the light and the fire of the Holy Spirit to light up the word of God for them,

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