Day 48 - Surely
When God fills a life, He doesn’t intend for everything in us to just sit there. It overflows.
Day 48 – Surely
Psalm 23:6 — “Surely goodness…”
Before we move on, I want to linger just a bit over “My cup overflows.” It leads us to the next word which begins verse 6:
“Surely.”
David’s confidence here grows out of his experience of God’s goodness. His cup has overflowed.
What cup?
What if we looked at the cup a little differently for a minute? I know David isn’t saying this in Psalm 23, but it gives us an opportunity to look at it a new way.
Paul writes, “We have this treasure in earthen vessels” (2 Corinthians 4:7). Later, he tells Timothy to cleanse himself so that he might be “a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master” (2 Timothy 2:21).
The picture is this: you and I are cups and God puts something precious in us.
When Christ saves you, He doesn’t just forgive you and leave you empty. He dwells within you. God begins filling your life with His presence, grace, mercy and goodness. (that’s the next word we will look at.)
When God fills a life, He doesn’t intend for everything in us to just sit there. It overflows.
Here’s how:
I’ve worked for years with broken men and I’ve learned something amazing. The most powerful thing that can happen in the life of a broken man is to place him alongside another man whose life is being filled by God.
I’ve watched it happen.
A man walks into a room carrying years of anger, failure, disappointment and hurt. There’s no solution. No magic formula. But he sits beside someone who has learned to walk with Christ—someone whose life is being filled with goodness and mercy. And somehow, what God has been pouring into one man’s life begins to overflow into another’s.
That’s the beauty of a cup that is full. It overflows.
Now I understand David’s “Surely” a little differently. I can see a Shepherd who fills His sheep until their cups overflow.
Ask yourself this today: What is overflowing from my life into the people around me? When we allow the Holy Spirit to fill us with Christ, His goodness begins to reach people who may never find it any other way. Wounded people are changed simply because they encountered a life in which God’s goodness was overflowing.
