Psalm 23:5
Having lived in a country that is close to Asia Minor and the Near East I can confirm that at least light alcoholic drink is often present on the table at a banquet.
When friends invite you they try their best to prepare for you coming and they put on the table the most exquisite they can source and cook. It almost always turns out to become a very merry gathering, where you feel appreciated, looked after and, indeed, full, in the end.
At some point though, in case the guests overstayed their welcome, the host would never say so but would keep smiling and start filling their cups less and less. If you find yourself with no or little drink in the cup then you could be pretty certain that it's time to go. If they forget to fill your cup up, but want you to stay, they would be quick to redeem themselves by hurriedly and generously pouring in drink for you and apologise profusely. In ancient Israel that was a normal practice. They also used to put a few drips of oil fragrance onto the summit of the guest's head, which would ooze a pleasant scent around them for the whole evening.
In life sometime we don't always feel that we are surrounded by friends only. Sometime we might feel like there are mostly people who don't seem to care about us. It might be that some people are in an outright opposition to us. Sometime there are problems that need attending. The least we feel like is like having a party. This hard situation doesn't alter God's intention to bless us though. It wouldn't change His plan about us. In the midst of challenges He is preparing a table of elaborate and astonishing feast for us. Nothing can disrupt His unrelenting course to fulfill His will in our lives. In the stinky fallenness of this world the aroma of God's presence would be consistently with us. Just close your eyes and you would start seeing, through the eyes of faith, that the enemies are temporary, but you and God are meant to be a company forever. You are not a guest, who should carefully notice, when his drink is low and make his way out. God ensures His drink never vanishes from your cup. His Spirit wants to fill you up at all times because you have been purchased from the weary, worrisome world of the old time for God's kingdom of freedom and new life.
Dear Father,
Thank you for your blessed hope in Jesus Christ. He is a proof that you are determined to change me, bless me and make me a victor and not be a victon. You are not stopped by the circumstances, but you fulfill your will for this world and you do so with me.
Please, let me never forget to have your oil on my head and enjoy my cup of favour being filled up for me by the King Himself every day.
In Jesus' Name! Amen!
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