He had inflated it, but he had not completely filled it. One should not push an analogy too far, but suffice it to say that Christians, like balloons, come in all different shapes and sizes, with varying capacities for air—varying anointings, giftings, callings. We must resist the idea that everyone’s Spirit-filled life is the same—they are manifestly not, as we see from 1 Corinthians 12.
