Can You Drink The Cup?

                                                                 Can You Drink The Cup?


Why Would One Want to “Drink The Cup”?


But Jesus answered and said, “Ye know not what ye ask”.  Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?  They said unto him, we are able.  (Matthew 20:22)


A Powerful Metaphor for 

“Suffering, Sacrifice, and Experiencing”, “The Will Of God”.


Our Daily Nugget

is Jesus’ response to a mother who asked for her two sons to set with Him when He ascended to His Throne; one on Jesus’ left and one on the right.  Jesus gave two responses, “you don’t know what you ask” and “can you drink the cup”?


Can You Drink The Cup?  

Are You Willing to “Pay The Price”?


A man would look at a man who what we would call, “Got It Made”; normally this means that “the man have a lot of money”.  The man learned the history of that man’s efforts and sacrifice and suffering, to get him to this Position in Life.  Now, the man look at a man who have what we call “Got It Made”; and he ponder, what price he had to pay to “Get There and to Stay There”.  Chances are, the mother would not want her two sons to suffer, bleed and die like Jesus did, “she would not want her two sons to drink the cup of suffering” that Jesus drank.   


The Cost of Success is “Never Cheap”, but, “It’s Always Desired”!


Jesus commanded us “To Love”; for the Kingdom Citizen “To Love Is Success”.  He never commanded us to make more money than our neighbors, the world has commanded us to “make more and more and more money”.  God calls this idolatry, the worshipping of a “false god”.  No amount of “more money” is enough.  To Love the Lord and to Love our neighbors as we love ourselves, “are the Cup of Suffering that all Kingdom Citizens are required to drink”.  


To Love is Not an Easy Thing To Do; but, “It Should Always be Desired!


Jesus’ Focus was on The Salvation of His Brothers and Sisters, us; His focus was not on making more money than his neighbors.  Where is your focus?


                                                             Which is the more important of these two to you, 

                                                                      “To Love or to Make More Money?  

                                                                

                                                                  Chose Love, to Love is to “Drink The Cup”.

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