What’s in your cup?

 

Happy Monday to all.

From time to time I share quotes or stories I’ve discovered or that someone has sent me. Today, I want to share a little wisdom in the form of an analogy.

I would gladly credit the author but I don’t remember where I found this. Though simple, it’s quite profound. After reading it, I hope you’ll agree.

Note: While most of you will easily be able to read this short analogy in the graphic, I’m going to print the text so a friend, who is blind due to a retinal disease, and can read what the graphic contains.

The Analogy

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you, making you spill your coffee everywhere.

Why did you spill the coffee? You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

The point is, whatever is inside the cup, is what will spill out.

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it until you get rattled.

So, we have to ask ourselves… “What’s in my cup?”

When life gets tough, what spills out? Joy, gratefulness, peace, and humility?

Or does anger, bitterness, harsh words, and reactions come out?

You choose! Today let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, kindness, gentleness, and love for others.

Sounds a lot like the fruit of the Spirit to me.

Galatians 5:22-23 reminds us that this “fruit” is the evidence of the Spirit of Christ living in you. It finishes with this admonition: “There is no law against such things.”

Of course, there isn’t. Because exhibiting this fruit shows others your life is in Christ and He lives in and through you.

Beloved, the encouragement today is that God’s fruit is evident in our lives. And if it isn’t? Then we need to draw close to Him and repent of things that are standing in the way. The world needs Jesus. And they are watching…you! His fruit in our lives is on display and may be just the thing that testifies of God’s love for someone else.

Mimi