‘Mind your manners!’, we likely
heard often from our mothers.
‘Mind your cups’ is never heard
said to sisters or brothers.
Manners are
taught, learned and some are caught.
Cups are given.
Only one can be sought.
At each human birth,
to the child a cup is given.
It’s invisible,
so to it we pay no attention.
In time,
parents will know the contents of this cup,
And with age,
filling this cup, the child will speed up.
The cup of note
is the ‘cup of iniquity’.
It is God’s
measure of our ‘sin accountancy’.
Though
invisible to us, all know well its contents.
They’re the outward
results of our inner man’s intents.
We don’t know
if our cups are short, big or tall,
Or whether they
all may be one-size-fits-all.
This, to you, may
be a point that’s insignificant.
Perhaps so, but
it could also be quite relevant.
Not only to
babies are these cups apportioned,
But for peoples
and nations, they’re also fashioned.
About the
Amorites’ cup, God and Abraham had a chat. 1
That made me
stop, take note, and then ask,
‘What’s up with that?!’
A noteworthy
point about that cup to them,
Was when it would
finally spill over its rim.
This, you see,
is when God’s judgments would certainly fall,
And when to Him, in repentance, Amorites might crawl.
Paul told
Timothy of what we experience today:
To judgment,
the sins of some very quickly lead the way,
But others won’t
know their fate until God’s Judgment Day. 2
With sins
during their lives, do they think they’re getting away??
There’s a cup
that can be sought with elation.
It is the cup
of God’s great salvation.
Receiving, and
then daily minding this salvation cup,
Ensures your
cup of iniquity...will never fill up.
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1 See: Genesis 15:16
2 See: 1 Timothy 5:24 poetically paraphrased. Also see: ‘God’s Full Cup
Principle’
