What are you really carrying?

What’s in Your Cup?

Imagine walking into your workplace with a cup of hot, steaming coffee. Suddenly, a co-worker bumps into you, and your coffee spills onto the floor.

This raises a question: Why did coffee spill from your cup?

Our immediate response might be, “Because my co-worker bumped into me.”
But the deeper answer is this: Because there was coffee in the cup.

As believers, what we carry matters.  It’s what in your cup that matters. The Bible calls us vessels—vessels of mercy created for glory. In other words, we are cups.

At some point, it's certain that someone will either accidentally or deliberately "bump" into us. When that happens, what spills out of us reveals what we’ve been carrying all along.

It’s not the bump that defines us, being bumped is a given.
It’s what’s inside the cup that matters.

So, the real question is: What’s in your cup?

In Gospel of Matthew 23:26, Jesus says:
“Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.”

There’s a line in the song “A Stronger Man” by Mitch Wong that says, “If it’s not holy, then throw it out. A holy God lives in a holy house.”

Holiness starts on the inside. So, if something in us isn’t holy, if there is bitterness, anger, pride, unforgiveness, it needs to go.

When shaken, what spills? Let’s be vessels that carry His mercy, His grace, and His Spirit so that when life bumps us, that’s what overflows.