Is Your Cup Waiting to Be Filled?
Last Saturday, our church hosted a Fall Ladies Luncheon, with guests from all over the community attending.
The decorations were lovely. Fall colors abounded in quilts, candles, gourds, flowers, and leaves. The food was delicious and plentiful, and everybody seemed to enjoy fellowship around the tables. We closed our time together with some worship and a speaker.
Katy Key’s message could be used as a teaching example of a speech that identified with the audience, and had a clear message that was both encouraging and challenging. It had all the elements of good illustrations, smooth transition, development of the topic, and so forth. It was excellent.
But it was more than that. It was powerful. It was encouraging and challenging—a possibly life-changing word for those who were open to hear. Comments about how good it was abounded.
One lady, whom I’ll call Sue, had the tone of voice that indicates the matter is settled when she said, “She was good.” I heard her say it at least three times before I heard the rest of the story.
“I expected her to just share this or that—but she was good!” Sue said. “I came with my cup turned over—but I got it turned back!”
Sue came to the meeting with low expectations. She didn’t expect much from our guest speaker and she certainly didn’t expect to hear from God.
She was surprised. God had something to say. It was a good thing she turned her cup back over, because the Lord filled it up.
It leaves the question, how often has the Lord had something to say to me and my cup was turned over?
I can see the Lord speaking words I need to hear and they pour over me like coffee running over an upside-down cup. That’s not good. Wasted words—because my cup is upside down.
At a church event, I hope I’d be sensitive enough to realize that I need to turn my upside-down cup back over.
But what about when I’m rushing to complete a commitment, cut off in traffic, or confronting a rebellious teen?
If I’m distracted with my agenda, am I listening for the Lord? Is my cup turned up and ready to be filled, or is it turned over?
Is all my attention consumed by my focus of the moment, or am I always aware that the Lord is with me, always expectant to hear from Him?
I want to keep my cup turned up and ready. Always.
How do you commune with the Lord throughout the day, staying expectant in the midst of daily demands?
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