ChaplainGene (@ChaplainGene)

Spurgeon: Our portion is no longer degraded, we do not pine in despair or wallow in pollution. But we sit as children at the table, drinking with joy from our allotted cup. Think of the full cup which Jesus holds to your lip, and contrast it with your former poverty when you were ready to perish in despair. Rejoice this morning, that you have a royal cup to drink of which will never fail you! Time was, when your riotous living ended in a mighty famine, you would have filled your belly with the husks that swine did eat. A trough was then far more your portion than a cup. Blessed the Lord, it is wonderful that the cup of a holy God should be at our lip! Believers are washed, renewed, sanctified and now with rags removed, and a fair white robe girt about their loins, they are permitted to sit at the table of the banquet, where music and dancing make glad the heart, and the wines on the lees well refined refresh the guests. From such need to such abundance, from such shame to such honour, what a change! (Edited excerpts from) “The Overflowing Cup” by CH Spurgeon, 1869 “My cup runneth over.” Psalm 23:5