“Awake, awake! Rise up Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.”- Isaiah 51:17
Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 5 of The Grave Robber by stating that every atom in our body or in the universe is subject to God’s overriding authority. Yet we need to remember that the laws of nature are miracles in themselves. Pastor Batterson asserts: “So when God overrides a law of nature that He originally instituted, it’s really a miracle within a miracle.”
Mark is a lifelong asthmatic. While he continues to pray for a miraculous healing of all his symptoms, he is thankful for the daily miracle of albuterol. The drug literally has saved his life countless times. Mark treasures his miracle within a miracle.
The miracle at Cana foreshadows Jesus’ last miracle. At the Last Supper, Jesus “turned an ordinary cup of wine into a bottomless glass of grace.” Jesus shedding His blood for us is the ultimate transformation. Grace is the greatest miracle of all.
We drink the cup of blessing because Jesus drank the cup of wrath to the dregs. Mark cautions that some of us sample God’s grace the way people sip wine at a wine-tasting. We sip as if His supply of grace is small. The only way to get intoxicated with Jesus’ love is to drink it to the dregs.
Today’s question: Do you believe the grace of God is big or small? Please share.
Tomorrow’s blog: “God ideas”
