The mercies are so rich, the grace so abundant, the loving-kindness so
bountiful, the living fountain so free, that the little cup of human
capacity cannot hold it all, and it runneth over. God describes His
people as not merely satisfied, but abundantly satisfied; and speaks of
the Holy Spirit as not merely bestowed, but as “shed on us abundantly.”
{93b} Why, then, are we content with a little water hardly perceptible
at the bottom of our little cup? Stephen was “full of faith and of the
Holy Ghost,” {93c} and we are told to be “filled with the Spirit;” {93d}
why, then, rest content with only a few drops in our own soul while there
is the deep, broad river of the water of life able to fill, to
overflowing, every vessel that can be found to receive the free supply?
Why do we not realize more the truth of the promise, “Open thy mouth
wide, and I will fill it”? {93e}
So much, then, for the present. A table prepared, a head anointed, a cup
running over. These are present gifts—the present and indescribable
privileges of those whose joy it is to be able to say, “The Lord is my
Shepherd.”