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Your Cup

What's in your cup?

What fills your cup will spill into every relationship, decision, and season. There are two cups before you — only one gives life.

Pillar of Life

The Cup of Life

Christ has come to give life — body, soul, and spirit.

Galatians 5:22–23

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

Fruit of the Spirit

  • Love
  • Joy
  • Peace
  • Longsuffering
  • Gentleness
  • Goodness
  • Faith
  • Meekness
  • Temperance
Counterfeit

The Emotional Cup

For the wages of sin is death — body, soul, and spirit.

Galatians 5:19–21

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like…"

Works of the Flesh

  • Adultery
  • Fornication
  • Uncleanness
  • Idolatry
  • Witchcraft
  • Hatred
  • Variance
  • Wrath
  • Strife
  • Envyings
  • Drunkenness
Side By Side

Why the Cup of Life is the way.

Both cups promise to satisfy. Only one delivers. The Emotional Cup numbs for a moment — the Cup of Life transforms for a lifetime.

 
Cup of Life
Emotional Cup
Source
The Spirit of God
The flesh and the world
Fills
Body, soul, and spirit
Body, soul, and spirit
Produces
Fruit that endures
Works that decay
Direction
Pulls you toward God and others
Pulls you toward self and isolation
Outcome
Life — now and eternal
Death — physical, emotional, spiritual
Refilled by
Jesus, Love, Forgiveness, Community, Truth, Identity, Purpose
Trauma, Anger/Resentment, Fear, Anxiety, Insecurity, Guilt, Condemnation
Filling the Cup of Life

Four steps. Every day.

These are the same steps for both cups — but only one cup pours these out as life. The other will demand them and never give them back.

  1. 1

    Love and Forgive

    Matthew 18:15 · John 3:16 · Colossians 3:13

  2. 2

    Healthy Relationships (God and Man)

    John 14:23 · John 15:4–7 · Matthew 12:48–50 · Matthew 22:37–40

  3. 3

    Know the Truth (Word of God)

    John 8:31–32

  4. 4

    Know Identity and Purpose

    Genesis 1:27–28 · Genesis 2:15–25

Empty the wrong cup. Drink from the One who is Life.

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." — John 10:10