Dear Hope family,

Thought for the Week

Abundance

Psalm 23v5 “My cup overflows.”

We continue the host-guest metaphor in the latter part of this Psalm. “My cup overflows” conveys an extreme generosity in God’s provision:

• His giving is without boundaries.
• His supply is without limit.
• His blessing is more than we can contain.

David wrote this Psalm as a person who had many challenges and difficulties as expressed in previous verses. But the overflowing cup enabled him to write Psalms celebrating God’s provision for him in the times of difficulty. We may want our problems removed, but God wants to enable us to overcome our problems.

In the New Testament, Jesus declares that for anyone who believes, “streams of living water will flow from within them” (John 7v38) and Paul declares that “God has poured out his love in our hearts by the Holy Spirit” (Romans 5v5) and again “that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3v19)

May your cup overflow today with love, strength, wisdom and hope from God’s unlimited treasury.

With love and blessing,

Roland