The cup that overflows!
Posted by appolus on December 25, 2023
George Matheson, the great old, blind Scottish preacher once said, “The hour of thy loneliness will crown thee. The day of thy depression will regale thee. It is thy desert that will break forth into singing. It is the trees of thy silent forest that will clap their hands .. the thorns will be roses. The valleys will be hills. The crooked will be straight lines, the ruts will be level. The shadows will be shining. The losses will be promotions, and the tears will be tracks of gold. The cup of suffering you prayed would pass from you will be your constant royal crown in the sweet by and by.”
The Lord sees us. He knows us. He comforts us. His comfort is strength and joy where there should be none. And though darkness may press in on us from every side, His light triumphs over it. Even the darkness is light to Him, and then, of course, to us. When the landscapes of our lives seem to stretch out before us in endless deserts, suddenly even the sand cries out, and the very rocks cry out, glory, glory, glory to the Living God! When the silence floods in and we struggle to hear anything above its noise, suddenly, glory to God the silence is broken. Just one word from our Lord shatters the deafening silence and our hearts and spirits are filled with His majesty.
Sometimes the thorns of life invade our lives yet from these thorns come magnificent roses. I am reminded of the Lord’s crown, and yet truly, He was crowned in a higher place. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Crown Him with many crowns, but first the crown of this life which was overcome. And now we overcome in Him. Paul once said that he considered the loss of all things as nothing, as less than nothing, for he only wanted to be found in Him. If our losses in this world lead us into the depths of Him, then we should surely be found praising Him in the midst of every situation. I praise Jesus today.
There is a cup in this life, and we are asked to take it, to take it all. Jesus led the way in the garden, and if He could take that cup, the cup that was filled with all the sin of this world and would lead to the death of the cross, then surely, in His power, and in His might, we can drink down the cup given to us. And in just one of the countless paradoxes in the Scriptures, we see that as we willingly drink this cup, there is another cup that simultaneously begins to fill and overflow………..Psa 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
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Anonymous said
Amen! A garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness…bless you Brother Frank
Anonymous said
Amen and amen to Anonymous’s reply.
I just read the posting today, December 28, bit what a beautiful truth and confirmation of the statement that even in the noisy silence (my anxious thoughts and the seemingly silence of God), Jesus broke through it all this morning with part of a line from an,Imperials praise song “I’m Forgiven”
“Now I can see as a person who’s free
Even when I slip and fall (yes)
You are a God who forgives and forgets
Now I want to give you my all”
It was hearing:
you are a God who forgives and FORGETS (Forgets being the breakthrough Word).
The realization that God forgets and we are FREE FROM CONDEMNATION. God NEVER brings the forgiven past back to us!! (Praise You, LORD for Your mercy and compassion) and as you pointed out in your reflections, dear brother, Paul wrote that as far as he was concerned, he counted the past (with its successes and failures) as dung, a weight to be cast aside, in order to run the race that was set before him, the HIGH CALLING of GOD and win the VICTORY CROWN of JESUS!! HALLELUJAH! AMEN!
appolus said
Praise the Lord and amen for your comments!……………..bro Frank
Anonymous said
Brother Frank
Jesus died for all sin, including sickness, HE healed ALL that came to Him. He has not changed, it’s part of salvation: Psalm 103:2-4, James 5:14-15, 1 Peter 2:24, Mark 10:52, this is to name just a few of the scriptures on how much The Lord loves and has healed us🙏
Praying for you brother Frank, you are a blessing
appolus said
I believe in healing, in fact I am here today because the Lord healed me many years ago of a disease that was supposed to kill me. Praise the Lord, but even if I die in the fire, I will never bow down to the gods of this world…………….bro Frank
Anonymous said
Well said my brother, well said.
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