God’s GyroScope

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Romans 5:5

Years ago when I traveled to Europe to preach, I liked to travel by sea, to enjoy the five days on the ship. On one of my voyages the captain took me down to see the ship’s gyroscope. He said, “When the sea is rough, the gyroscope helps to keep the ship on an even keel. Though the waves may reach tremendous proportions, the gyroscope helps to stabilize the vessel and maintain a high degree of equilibrium.” As I listened, I thought how like the gyroscope is the Holy Spirit. Let the storms of life break over our heads. Let the enemy Satan come in like a flood. Let the waves of sorrow, suffering, temptation, and testing be unleashed upon us. Our souls will be kept on an even keel and in perfect peace when the Holy Spirit rules in our hearts.

Talking about the secret of Spirit-filled living, the great evangelist D. L. Moody said, “I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God’s law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God.”

Is your life on course or off? If it is off course, perhaps you need the equilibrium of God’s gyroscope—His Holy Spirit. Seek Him and His will for you today.

Our Father and our God, please help me to empty myself of pride, selfishness, ambition, and conceit. Fill me with Your Spirit, every corner of my heart and mind. Give me the spiritual equilibrium I need every day. And help me to depend on Jesus for my balance. In His name. Amen.

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).