Empty Cups of Fear - Full Cups of Faith

"Lord, I crawled across the barrenness to you with my empty cup uncertain in asking any small drop of refreshment.  If only I had known you better I'd have come running with a bucket."
                                ---Nancy Spielgelberg  


Crawling across the barrenness ... we have all seen the scene in the movie where someone nearly dead, is inching their way across the blistering desert .... thirst is palpable in each breath ...

All the viewer can think of when watching this is the one thing that isn't present in the scene - water!

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If only I had known you better ....

We sometimes attribute things to the Lord that just aren't there  -
one of them is a lack of willingness to bless us.  We imagine that we must beg, plead, persuade God to bless us, almost against His better judgment.

It is in such times, that we hold forth our little tin cup made of fear, and hesitantly hope for a drop of mercy.  But it is God's great pleasure to bestow His mercies up on us.  He is so committed to it that unlike, for example, a rainbow which only appears occasionally, He has promised us that He would supply new mercies every morning.

God is not in the business of dribbles, drabs, and drops of blessing.  He is the God of rushing mighty waters!  If only we knew Him better....


We fear censure, but God sends cascades of refreshing.  If only we knew Him better....


We suspect He may not like us very much, because after all, He knows us as we really are.  But He died for us "while we were yet sinners."  If only we knew Him better....


Friends, how about we toss away our tin begging cups made of fear and uncertainty, and grab a great big bucket of faith and go running toward God's fountain of blessing?

We can know Him better, if we really want to. 
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Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."  John 4:10