My Cup Overflows

4126/10000 My Cup Overflows You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed and refreshed my head with oil. My cup overflows. Psalm 23 v 5 The process of maximizing our lives or fulfilling our God-given potential is based on extracting from the word of God – a maxim to guide us in our walk with God, in our daily lives. The maxim extracted from the above uni-verse is : “MY CUP OVERFLOWS.” Our cup is not half empty or half full but it overflows with mercy, grace, healing, blessing, deliverance, joy, peace, hope. We are not to believe in the human philosophy of either optimism or pessimism but have confidence in the Lord that He has provided all that is needed in abundance. Jesus often asked His disciples if they could drink the cup He was to drink- the one of extreme suffering and sacrifice. Many of His first disciples did drink of it, too and were martyred. But, today, the Lord asks us to rejoice, to be filled with positivity to the brim and beyond. We have traded, indeed our sorrows for His joy, our weaknesses for His strength, our sinfulness for His grace and holiness, our defeat for His victory. Our cup is not containing a mixture of joy and sorrow, faith and doubt. It is a cup the Lord has filled. It is our portion or the inheritance of blessings we have from the Lord. It is a cup overflowing with love. It is a cup overflowing with hope. It is a cup overflowing with faith. We have this cup served to us at the Lord’s table. We have this cup of joy as we have anchored our lives in the relationship we have with God through Christ Jesus, His Son. Jesus said, “ I have come to bring you life in all its abundance.” The cup contains an abundance of all that we need to live a victorious life. Like Jesus was anointed, prepared to be Messiah for all humanity, we are anointed to be part of His body, the church, to serve the world as His representatives on earth. We are anointed with “fire’ of the Holy Spirit by Jesus. When at first, God, the Father breathed into man, he began to live. When Jesus breathes on us, we receive the Holy Spirit. If our cup is to be full with what Jesus has intended and prepared for us, we should empty it of our own selves, our egos, our weaknesses, our fears, our insecurities and fill it with His strength, power, love, grace and mercy.