You have a full cup. It’s full of something. For some it’s full of emptiness.
Is this an oxymoron? No, your cup is full of something.
Clearly the cup is your spirit. Young and old alike have a spirit. What you fill that spirit with is who you are or who you will become.
One of my favorites is that people want their children to become their own person.
Trust me we were all made unique and we all we become our own person. If someone doesn’t want to guide their child through this world, the world will be happy to take over. They’ll fill that cup with all sorts of flavors until it spilleth over.
I have one guarantee for you. If the world is influencing them, God’s not in it.
John 8:23 –But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
There is no greater supporter of letting your children become their own person than Satan. However, he’s a cheater. When one’s not protected or paying attention he’s doing his own influencing.
You know what we are supposed to be? Children of God!
God wants to fill your cup. In this country in the present you have that wonderful opportunity to do just that. You have the freedom to read the Bible when you want. You can go to church as a Christian and worship with others. You can turn on the television and even tape your favorite pastors to watch when it’s convenient for you. There are Christian radio stations in your car. All of these things are about your loving God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
You have the ability to fill your cup all day long. I’ve been on both sides of the coin. It’s addicting.
What?
It’s addicting. Wanting God in your whole life becomes addicting. I believe it’s because the light doesn’t like the darkness. The light starts pushing out the darkness. The spirit was made to love God. It’s why we were made.
Complacency and filling your spirit with everything but God is habit forming and addicting also. If you don’t take any time for God or seek Him in your day, wouldn’t say you are filling your spirit with darkness?
Matthew 6:23 – But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Jesus is the Light. Jesus is the Word.
John 1:1-5 –1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
The more darkness you put in your spirit, the less you understand your God and Creator.
Fill your cup with the things of God, not darkness.