Path To Pentecost involves not only walking or keeping in step with the Holy Spirit, not only being led by The Holy Spirit, but being filled with The Holy Spirit.
As we journey on the Path to Pentecost it is important that we recognize all 3 of these metaphors that The Scriptures employ to give us insight into life with The Holy Spirit. Now remember they are metaphors and are not exact in every detail but seek to give us some insight into the life on The Path To Pentecost.
Being filled with The Holy Spirit is surely the idea of having the Holy Spirit have full access to our lives or full influence in our lives. For instance, when it is said of a person that they are full of anxiety it means that the person is influenced in their life to a full degree by anxiety. This influence of anxiety in their life is in their thinking, feeling and believing or in other words, the whole person.
If this metaphor is understood, then what the Scriptures mean (Ephesians5:18) is that we are to offer our lives to the fullness of influence of the Holy Spirit in our thinking, feeling, and believing to the presence of the Holy Spirit. This would be a way of thinking of being filled with The Holy Spirit.
How do we do this? Or, how is this experienced in our daily lives? It seems to me that we begin this life with an awareness that we are not "filled" with the adequate resources to live our lives to the fullest. We then open ourselves to the fact that God wants to fill us with His Spirit to give us the resources He has.
REFLECT: How about beginning tomorrow by admitting you need to be filled with God's Holy Spirit for the day. Memorize Ephesians 5:18