"Only one thing prevents Jesus from filling our cups as He passes by, and this is sin in one of its thousand forms. The Lord Jesus does not fill dirty cups. Anything that springs from self, however small it may be, is sin. Self-energy or self-complacency in service is sin. Self-pity in trials or difficulties, self-seeking in business or Christian work, self-indulgence in one's spare time, sensitiveness, touchiness, resentment and self-defense when we are hurt or injured by others, self-consciousness, reserve, worry, fear, all spring from self and all are sin and make our cups unclean. But all of them were put into that other cup, which Lord Jesus shrank from momentarily in Gethsemane, but which He drank to the dregs at Calvary-the cup of our sin. And if we will allow Him to show us what is in our cups and then give it to Him, He will cleanse them in the precious blood that still flows from sin. That does not mean mere cleansing from the guilt of sin, not even from the stain of sin-though thank God both are true-but from the sin itself, whatever it may be. And as He cleanses our cups, so He fills them to overflowing with His Holy Spirit."
-Roy Hession The Calvary Road
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that's beautiful
ouch - some of those sins mentioned definitely hit home. thank GOD he cleanses us from All of it.
I know. We serve a very BIG God!
I was thinking that too, hobsis -- I was feeling pretty convicted and discouraged there, & then the good part came! I just need to give it all to Him...
The whole book is like that. You end up feeling completly broken and then completly embraced over and over again.
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