My Cup Overflows...?

My cup overflows…?

So many instances in the Bible, people are mentioned as cupbearers to the kings. They hold positions of trust, honor, and protection to the king. They fill the cup for the king and protect it from any poison or contamination. Not only do they bear the cup they also are responsible to taste of the drink with the possibility of death at the other end of a sip to ensure the kings safety. The life and death of the king rides on their shoulders.

I, too, bear a cup. We all do. The difference between this cup and the one I mentioned is that I get to drink of it. I’ve been given a cup by The King. I don’t run and fetch my own drink, my cup is filled by the flowing waters of the God of the universe. It is always good. He is always good. I’ve recently been so filled with what God is doing around me some days it is hard to comprehend. The problem came when I couldn’t believe and I couldn’t accept the blessings that God was giving me. I struggle with believing the lie that says I am not _____ enough to accept this offering. It’s like I go to God and say “fill my cup, Lord” and as He goes to pour into my cup, I flip it over and blessings spill on to the floor. In turn, I am saying, I want your blessing but I can’t receive it. In order to experience the goodness of God, we have to accept it. Our cup can’t overflow if it is tipped upside-down to begin with. A cup can't serve it's purpose if it isn't allowed to be filled - so is our life. How do we expect to live with purpose if we can't accept blessing, healing, pain, joy, and every other gift God wants to sing over us? 

I’ve been so aware of the blessings and healing God is pouring over my friends and family recently, yet I shrink back when it comes turn for the acceptance of what God wants to give me in my own life. How it must pain our Beautiful God to know what we desire most, we run from because it is too good. I hear the words so loudly over my life - Jesus didn’t die so we could mask our pain or shy away from joy. Jesus came so we could have life and have it in abundance. Abundance means to set the cup upright and accept blessings. We are not called to cower under pain, but to rise up knowing our fight is worth something. We are allowed to feel joy, even if it is so much we don’t know what to do. We are all given a cup. One thing we can be sure, God will never run out of ways to overflow our cup, but it is in our hands whether we allow it to spill out as waste on the ground or let our gifts overflow. Taste and see that The Lord is good – hold up your cup upright and let the river of blessings and healing flow over your life. 

"You serve me a six-course dinner
right in front of my enemies.
You revive my drooping head;
my cup brims with blessing!"
Psalm 23:5