“My Cup is Running Over”

 

 

God’s blessings are always superabundance.  When the “LORD is my shepherd,” “my cup runs over” in superabundance.

 

We do not have to wait until we get to heaven to experience God’s banquet house. His overflowing grace is something we experience as Christians in this life. Jesus said, “I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly” (John 10:10b). That is a cup running over with God’s grace. The life He gives us is perisson, meaning, “to have a surplus,” “superabundance,” “till it overflows.”

 

Jesus gives us Himself (John 14:6). He is this abundant life. It is God’s kind of life. “My cup overflows,” means it is not just full; it is “running over,’ filled to the brim and overflowing. God’s saving and sustaining grace is always like that. His grace is always in fullness, abundance and all-sufficiency.

 

Jesus tells us, “If any man is thirsty, let Him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scriptures said, ‘from his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38). These are rivers from the inside depths of one’s being. Jesus did not say just a trickle now and then, but rivers gushing forth from within you.

 

My cup runs over because He “is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us” (Ephesians 3:20). It is the superabundance of life that we receive through the Spirit in Christ Jesus. This is the fullness of life Jesus gives and it causes our cups to run over with the fullness of joy. No Christian is poor while Christ is rich. We can never be poor spiritually when we enjoy “the unsearchable riches of Christ.” “My cup runs over!”

 

One of the great principles of the Christian life is the more you receive, the more you want. If your cup is overflowing, you want more of Him. All you have to do is come and drink. This superabounding life in Christ is ever growing, expanding and increasing as we are “changed from glory into glory” (2 Cor. 3:18).

 

Another great principle is the more you give away the more you get. There is no more effective way of serving Christ than when your cup is running over. When you serve Him from the overflow you have a ministry that will impact eternity. Oh, Lord cleanse, and fill me until I run out all over the place with the fullness of your grace.

 

Pastor Wil Pounds