Full of It

June 3

(Acts 11:24 NIV) “He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.”

(John 1:14 NIV) “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

(Acts 6:8 NIV) “Now Stephen, a man full of God's grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.”

(Luke 11:39 NIV) ““Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.””

You may have heard the expression, “He’s full of it.” It is not usually meant as a compliment. When Luke speaks of Barnabas being sent to Antioch, he tells us that Barnabas was a man “full of the Holy Spirit and faith.” When John speaks of Jesus, he describes the Lord as “full of grace and truth.” Stephen, the church’s first recorded martyr, is described as “a man full of grace and power.” Conversely, Jesus described the Pharisees as “full of greed and wickedness.” How would God describe you? If the Lord described you as “full of it”, what would he be talking about? What a glorious epitaph for our tombstones, if it could honestly be said of us, “He (she) was a good man (woman), full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and he (she) brought a great number of people to the Lord.” If we’re going to be described as being full of something, let’s work at making it “the Holy Spirit and faith.” -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day