{"id":2746,"date":"2020-07-26T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mvcog.org\/wp\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2020-08-08T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T01:26:28","slug":"psalm-235-my-cup-runneth-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mvcog.org\/wp\/2020\/07\/26\/psalm-235-my-cup-runneth-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 23:5 My Cup Runneth over."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunday Service at Mountain Valley Church of God - My cup runneth over\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sy_SaIx5Q-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mvcog.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Psalm-23-v5-My-cup-runeth-Over-outline.pdf\">Psalm-23-v5-My-cup-runeth-Over-outline<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mvcog.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Psalm-23-v5-My-cup-runeth-Over-outline.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Provision in the past and provision now.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When David begins speaking about what it like to be a guest at the Lord\u2019s table in verse 5, how God prepares a table for him and anoints his head with oil, and gives him an overflowing cup\u2014these are pictures of God\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">provision <\/span>for him.&nbsp; Here\u2019s a statement of David\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">assessment <\/span>or summation after reflecting on what God has done for him. God has provided us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everything <\/span>that we need.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hospitality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For a traveler, access to water and food was a matter of life and death. Providing for travelers who had stopped at their tents was an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">obligation<\/span>. This is exactly what we find <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abraham <\/span>doing in Genesis 18, in verses 1-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As New Testament believers are urged to&nbsp; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hospitality <\/span>to this type of guest in Hebrews 13:2: <strong>2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it<\/strong>. (Heb. 13:2). In Romans 12:13, he doesn\u2019t forget to exhort us to be <strong>&#8220;given to hospitality&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A cup of welcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the first things done for a guest who has been received, is to offer him a drink of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">water<\/span>. To give a drink of water is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">simplest <\/span>way to pledge friendship with a person. When Eliezer, Abraham&#8217;s servant, sought a welcome, he did so by requesting of the maiden who came to the well to draw <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">water <\/span>(Gen. 24:17, 18)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filled to overflowing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of these customs in parts of the Middle East had to do with filling the cup. If you came to somebody&#8217;s house, even if you were a total stranger, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first <\/span>thing the host would do is to offer you a cup of water.&nbsp; When we are welcomed to God\u2019s table of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">provision <\/span>and His <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Presence<\/span>, made possible by trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior, He does not leave our cup <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">empty<\/span>.&nbsp; And the first and most important thing that this cup is overflowing with is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">presence <\/span>of God Himself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A cup of provision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With Love<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>God is the one who makes our love for him and for one another <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">grow<\/span>.&nbsp; God is able to love us so much, that this love pours out of us and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">overflows <\/span>toward those all around us.&nbsp; (1 Thess 3:12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With Joy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When we ask of the Lord in Jesus\u2019 name, and we receive it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fills <\/span>us to overflowing with Joy (John 16:24)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With Hope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrated power of the Holy Spirit, working <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">within <\/span>us and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">through <\/span>us, is what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">witnesses <\/span>to us that we are saved.&nbsp; And with the help of God as we allow Him to work through us, it fills us with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hope<\/span>, as we see the evidence of the Holy Spirit working through us, because we know that we are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">His<\/span>.&nbsp; (Romans 15:13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcomed throughout our life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The filling and filling of our cup continues throughout our life.&nbsp; God\u2019s Holy Spirit and provision for us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never <\/span>runs dry.&nbsp; It is we ourselves who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">limit <\/span>what God wants to do for us and through us. (2<sup>nd<\/sup> Kings 4:1-6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we are willing to let God use whatever we have in the house; if we give to God <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ourselves<\/span>, even such as we are, He will use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amount of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">trusting <\/span>the Lord that we have walked in, up to the point of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">trial <\/span>determines the amount of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">faith <\/span>that we have available to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bring <\/span>to the trial in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">moment <\/span>that it is most needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forever welcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This welcome we have from God, based on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">relationship <\/span>that we have with His Son is one that continues not only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">throughout <\/span>our life, but is the relationship that continues <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">forever<\/span>.&nbsp; This is clear, even in the life of David.&nbsp; The relationship between David and God <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">still exists<\/span>.&nbsp; The relationship that David is talking about here between himself, of him sitting at God\u2019s table in peace and relationship with Him, is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">forever <\/span>relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provision in the past and provision now. 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