Based on
personality type and experience, people naturally tend to look at the glass as
half empty or half full.
Based on
the generosity of God, born again believers supernaturally look at the glass as
overflowing.
“Thou preparest a table before
me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over” (Psalm
23:5).
Note the venue where David’s cup overflowed, and his head was anointed
with oil – “in the presence of mine enemies.” The Psalmist saw that God’s most
bountiful bestowal of Himself and His blessing comes not at the table of
pleasant and obviously bountiful experience. Instead, we are to expect God’s best
when appearances would tell us that the cup is neither half full or empty, but
rather swept from the table and shattered on the floor.
“In all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved
us” (Romans 8:37).
The “things” to which the Apostle Paul refers are “tribulation… distress…
persecution… famine… nakedness… or peril… sword” (Romans 8:35). Such a perspective is counterintuitive
to either the half full or the half empty perspective. Only the Holy Spirit can motivate and
empower such an abundant heart in the midst of seeming destitution. This He does in the heart of believers,
and this we must believe in those times when all seems lost, and hope but a
memory. Regardless of how we feel,
or what thoughts may be running through our head, we are actually sitting at a
bountiful table, with anointed head and overflowing cup. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself conducts
the feast, and if we will lift our eyes to behold, He will serve us in a manner
not possible when we sit in the presence of friends.
Again, this we must believe.
Our faith began in the presence of enemies who nailed our Savior to a
cross of death that became for us a crown of life. Thus, we should expect to discover the
richest feast in the sorest famine, and thus, we see that “my cup runneth over”
in those times when half empty is a lie, and half full does not begin to tell
the extent of God’s provision.
“I am come that they might
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
(John 10:10)
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