Hebrews 6:13-14 “When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, "I promise that I'll bless you with everything I have - bless and bless and bless!” (The Message)
While traveling recently, I was surfing the radio and heard a song called, “Drinking from My Saucer”. Intently listening to every word, it reminded me of years past when my grandmother would meet her friends for coffee after the meeting of “The Women’s Temperance Union”.
The table was set with cups and saucers along with a pot of hot coffee. Each lady would pour a cup of coffee and overflow the coffee into the saucer. Then they would take the full cup of hot coffee and set it next to the saucer. Each lady would then pick up the saucer and drink from the saucer.
When I asked my grandmother why they did that, she told me that the coffee could only be drunk immediately when placed in the saucer. Later, I related drinking from the saucer by my grandmother to the blessings that the Lord gives us.
We don’t realize everything we are given by a loving Lord. Then what overflows into the saucer are the blessings we appreciate immediately. Usually the ones we see daily.
Yet the Lord keeps filling our cups like he did for Abraham. What a promise! The words and music of the Southern Gospel song, “Drinking From My Saucer” that is found on the website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjbpxPibu4&feature=related
and gives us a powerful devotion to appreciate how God blesses us no matter what we have endured.
Once we ponder on the blessings in our lives, in spite of the storms, each one of us can see that our cup of blessings overflows into our saucers and we are thrilled to drink from the saucers.
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