I’m continuing to work through the Psalm 23 study by Jennifer Rothschild. This last week gave me some in-depth time in verse 5-
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
As I studied the table that God has prepared for me, I realized that this is a table that is not just reserved for my future inheritance in heaven but that it’s a very present, here and now invitation. When I come to God through Christ, I am invited to sit at his table!
On page 164 of the study workbook, Jennifer says, “when we’re at the table God prepares for us . . . we will overflow with love, JOY, thanksgiving, hope, rejoicing, and praise.”
As I considered these qualities and whether or not they are overflowing from my life, I realized that they are in a sense indicators. I quickly concluded that if don’t have these flowing from my life, perhaps it’s indicative that I am not currently sitting at God’s table.
Am I at the world’s table instead- trying to get full there?
I spent some time considering all of this by going back to Ephesians where I’m reminded of all that I possess in Christ (Ephesians 1:3-14) which is every spiritual blessing. I also gain position. (Ephesians 2:5-7) tells me that I am seated with Christ. In Christ and by Christ, God longs to fill my life with abundantly more (overflow) than I could think to ask or imagine. (Ephesians 3:20)
As Jennifer encourages on page 166, God invites me to “hold out the cup of my life, and ask God to fill it . . . with the blessings of His table and the fullness of His Spirit.”
I wrote in the margin of my workbook-
I must lose my taste for what this world has to offer! I can only sit at one table, and the world’s table leaves me hungry for more every time.
An appetite for the things of this world is a definite joybuster! It steals from you the abundance God intended because it was never meant to truly satisfy. Worldliness is a thief. It has no real power, but we’re quick to be deceived by it’s lure.
The Bible has much to say about this particular joybuster– probably because this is where we live, and our citizenship is actually a home we haven’t seen yet. We struggle with this issue of living “in the world” but not being “of the world.” If this is an especially powerful struggle for you, these scriptures provide extra insights and help-
1 John 2:15-16; 1 Timothy 6:6, 10; Luke 12:15; Matthew 6:19-21
To worldliness, I’m bringing back a PIC from a previous entry-
Because it’s good to be reminded that just as we can only serve one master, we can also sit at only one table.
I’m adding a new PIC and prayer-
God please change my appetite! I want to worldliness and instead hunger and thirst for righteousness so that I am only satisfied as I humbly pull my chair up to Your table and ask You to fill my cup- so that it does run over.
Daily PICs for Life 