The Word exhorts the people of God to be constantly preoccupied with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit-filled life is a life of love. Love manifests itself in identifying with people with whom we serve. Behind the scurrying madness and feverish activity, through his eyes we see the fainting heart and the lonely life. Love enables us to identify with those we serve.
Scriptural identification is twofold.
It considers the sins of others as our own and it puts us where the people are. The Spirit-filled life is a life of wisdom. Whereas the Stoics held that wisdom is the application of knowledge, A.W. Tozer went further and said that wisdom is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. We need the wisdom to relate to each other, to know those whom we serve, to understand their beliefs, cultures and tradition, to present the gospel to them in their contexts, and to have fruitful Christian living and ministry. The Spirit-filled life means keeping in step with the Spirit.