英文灵修文章-The cup of life

諾行

The Cup of Life

When the mother of James and John asks Jesus to give her sons a special place in his Kingdom, Jesus responds, "Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?" (Matthew 20:22).

"Can we drink the cup?" is the most challenging and radical question we can ask ourselves. The cup is the cup of life, full of sorrow sand joys.

Can we hold our cups and claim them as ourown?

Can we lift our cups to offer blessings to others,

and can we drink our cups to the bottom as cups that bring us salvation?

Keeping this question alive in us is one of the most demanding spiritual exercises we can practice.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-5-26 1:27:12编辑过]

d02023

deserve think what you said

followjesus

以下是引用諾行在2007-5-26 1:25:00的发言：

"Can we drink the cup?" is the most challenging and radical question we can ask ourselves. The cup is the cup of life, full of sorrows and joys.

paoncut

Keeping this question alive in us is one of the most demanding spiritual exercises we can practice.
It is true!

Randy

“Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?”

maybe i can answer the question,but in real life i amn't sure how can i do ??

so pitying!

tlumba2007

We all failed somehow when the cup of bitterness is put in front of us, although we might claimed "Yes, Lord, I am able." However, we may not fully understand what Lord refers to as "drink the cup that Thy is gonna drink". That means we must also be crusified with Him and that cup of bitterness is actually the cup of death. We must die internally to our old fleshy body, which is the painful process of sanctification, being purified by the Holy Spirit of God. In reality, are we able to die? are we really dead? We claimed that we are dead but we never are.

pangoder

When I was young,I was proud of being able to drink bitter Chinese herbal medicine.

I think the cup of life is much more difficult.

I'm trying to know more and think about it.

I belive I can drink it when Jesus help me.