BITTER CUP

I am not a very picky eater, but I have faced things pretty difficult to mouth and swallow. It is said, “you are what you eat” and there are some things I just don’t want to take in or become. Thank God Our Redeemer is not so choosy. Upon facing the bitter cup of sin in Gethsemane He prayed “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will” and 

readily drank it down. He swallowed our death-marked souls whole and for a moment He too became what He drank. As Scripture declares “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him”. Glorious God and Savior, in rising from the dead You overcame sin. Rather than us permanently turning You into sin, You have now eternally turned us into righteous children!