SWEET CUP

Are you interested in better digestion, a boost to your immune system, more nutrients and vitamins?  Well, here you go – add buttermilk to your diet.  Okay, I know it’s not everyone’s idea of a smoothie.  At my house, everyone checks the label before they pour!

Life is full of bitter cups.  Are you visualizing a glass of buttermilk?  The struggles and causes of struggles are many!  Christ faced similar struggles: He lived without a home and a job, was estranged from His earthly and heavenly family, no one understood him which created a terribly lonely existence.  Perhaps the greatest struggle came when He faced death – a fear of us all.   In this one struggle, Jesus showed us how to face ‘em all: wave the white flag of surrender.  He  said to The Father, “not my will but Yours be done.”   That looming bitter cup of death suddenly became a sweet cup of surrender.  Now, I know buttermilk will never taste the same as a cup of sweet milk and the nutritional values will always differ.  In this life, however, we don’t have to squeeze our eyes shut and hold our breath to face our struggles.  No, we can consciously with confident hope say “Yes, Lord” and [like Christ] we’ll come to know the sweetness in every struggle and victory.  Try it, it really is a sweet cup!