ChaplainGene (@ChaplainGene)

Spurgeon: Oh how Christians admire that amazing love, which brought us from the jaws of gaping hell, and set our standing on a rock at the very gates of heaven! Our Redeemer has drained that bitter cup on our behalf, for he was made a curse for us. Now we bless God that our portion is not with the wicked whom the Lord shall destroy, but with the chosen whom the Lord accepted in the Beloved. Ours is not the cup of damnation, but the cup of salvation, not the vial of wrath, but the flagon of consolation. We have nothing to do with that cup, the dregs whereof “all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.” The cup of. believers is a golden goblet, which to the last drop is full of bliss and immortality. From the depths of condemnation, to our present standing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, what a change! (Edited excerpts from) “The Overflowing Cup” by CH Spurgeon, 1869 “My cup runneth over.” Psalm 23:5