Title: God Makes My Cup Overflow
Contents
“You have anointed my head with oil, and my cup overflows” (Psalm 23:5b).
1. Introduction: The full joy of the soul
- In verse 5, the poet is moved by the grace of God that overflows in him. The first joy was to receive God's reward in the sight of the enemy, and the second joy was to “pour his head with oil.” Because of these two graces, the psalmist confesses, "My cup overflows" with a fullness of joy that overflows in the soul.
2. Body: Unspeakable joy
1) My cup overflows.
- The poet's confession that the cup is overflowing is reminiscent of the scene of a banquet house. The hearts of all who are gathered in the wedding house are filled with joy, and their joy is as overflowing as wine. However, if there is a lost word in our religious life today, it is “joy” and “joy”.
- The cup referred to here is the cup that God gave to humans when He first created them, and refers to the cup that can only be filled with God. All humans have an empty cup of soul, and extreme hedonism prevalent in this world is one of the disease phenomena that struggles to fill the empty cup of the soul.
- The empty cup in man cannot be filled except by God. Moreover, born-again believers are those who know and taste that we can never be satisfied with being in this world, and that true satisfaction comes only from God. In order for us to live as true human beings in this world, we need the heavenly resources, and the Father's house is full of all the good things we need, so if we just ask for them, God will provide them abundantly.
2) The reality of the anointing
- One of the sources of the poet's unspeakable joy was the anointing. This anointing, which appears in the Old Testament, is a special institution established by God. In Old Testament times, the people who were appointed as kings, prophets, and priests, called the three branches, were the anointed. All of those who held these three offices were working directly with God, and even in the Old Testament, the anointing event was more than just a symbol, and that was the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
- David experienced three anointings in his life, especially Samuel's first anointing on his head, where he experienced a powerful presence of the Holy Spirit that he had never experienced before. Through this experience, he experienced a change of wisdom, courage, leadership, and amazing character.
3) The anointing of the Old and New Testaments
- In the Old Testament times, the Holy Spirit did not come universally and universally, but came to a person who was going to do God's work, was with him while carrying out the work, and then left. So, in the Old Testament times, God sent the Holy Spirit so that those who were entrusted with the above three offices could each carry out their duties. But this did not simply give power to the powerless, and in the soul of the anointed one overflowed with unspeakable joy from the presence of the Holy Spirit.
- In the New Testament era, when a person receives the atonement of Christ by faith and is born again, the Holy Spirit comes into the heart of the believer and does not leave him forever. But the Holy Spirit is not fixed, and when we sin and live disobedience, the presence of the Holy Spirit is hardly felt; on the contrary, when we live in obedience to God, we experience the full presence of the Holy Spirit, so that we can be filled with unspeakable joy. you do Like the poet who confessed, “My cup overflows.”
3. Conclusion: Seek the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
- Although the Holy Spirit has already entered the born-again believer, we must ask for it to be filled again. On the one hand, when we pray with our whole heart for the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and on the other hand, when we strive to direct our prayers and our lives in one direction with all our hearts and our lives worthy of that prayer, we will overflow with the full joy of the Holy Spirit. . The greatest gift we should seek is God Himself. David was the king of a nation, and all the possessions of the kingdom belonged to him, but he always confessed, “I am poor and needy,” and prayed that God would fill the empty cup of the soul that could not be filled except by God Himself. did.
May we become saints who live in His grace, knowing that God is our only satisfaction. 2004-01-18