The Cup of Salvation
A. G. Brown. Psalm 116:12-14 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?… This cup of salvation is standing on the table of infinite love, filled to the brim with the wine of the Kingdom; all heaven is there in solution, all joy, peace, comfort, security, for the word salvation covers all. How came it there? Ages back man was tempted and drank of a forbidden cup; it wrought madness in the brain, enmity in the heart, and the poison spread into all parts of his being, and as the result of the first draught he had to drink of another, the cup of sorrow. But over and beyond there is a third cup of God's holy anger against sin, deep and filled with wormwood and gall. The Man Christ Jesus comes in a body like our own, He looks on the cup of Divine anger, He takes and begins, to drink, and finds it a cup of trembling and amazement, but never a moment's pause or hesitation till He came to the dregs, and His anguished soul cried, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" and He puts it down and says, "It is finished." He rises again; and now the cup which He had drained is as full of blessing as it was of woe. It is the cup of God's salvation. "Take" the cup of salvation, not make. So many are wanting to tread out grapes of their own good works and put them into the cup, but that is filled with the wine which comes from Jesus Himself, having been trodden in the winepress. "Take," not admire and wonder. "Take," not only hold it in a trembling hand, but drink, put it to thy lips and say, "I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord." All believers may take a fresh and a deeper draught, and the more you drink of this wine the more sober you become, and the deeper and sweeter, for there is more in Christ than was ever dreamed of, and a delight in God's salvation that could never be thought possible. (A. G. Brown.) Parallel Verses KJV: What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? WEB: What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?