My Cup

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Psalm 16:5 • 1 min. read • grade level: 5

"The LORD is the portion... of my cup." Psalm 16:5⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. (Psalm 16:5). Such is the language of the psalmist. Tell me, is it yours? Look now into your cup. You may have youth in that cup, beauty, friendship, honors, and riches in that cup; but, if you have only these, you have nothing—nothing but a mere earthly sediment which can never run over but will be emptied at death. Look now into the cup of the believer. There may not be youth there, nor beauty there, nor friendship there, nor honor there, nor riches there; but CHRIST is there, a portion infinitely great, and inexhaustibly fresh. The believer can say, "The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup." No mere sediment this! for, adds the psalmist, "My cup runneth over." Psalm 23:5⁵Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm 23:5).