power flow in." The picture that has made things simple and clear to
so many of us is that of the human heart as a cup, which we hold out
to Jesus, longing that He might fill it with the Water of Life. Jesus
is pictured as bearing the golden water pot with the Water of Life.
As He passes by, He looks into our cup and if it is clean, He fills
to overflowing with the Water of Life. And as Jesus is always passing
by, the cup can be always running over. That is something of what
David meant, when he said, "My cup runneth over." This is
Revival--you and I--full to overflowing with blessing ourselves and
to others--with a constant peace in our hearts. People imagine that
dying to self makes one miserable. But it just the opposite. It is
the refusal to die to self that makes one miserable. The more we know
of death with Him, the more we shall know of His life in us, and so
the more of real peace and joy. His life, too, will overflow through
us to lost souls in a real concern for their salvation, and to our
fellow Christians in a deep desire for their blessing.

Under the Blood.

Only one thing prevents Jesus filling our cups as He passes by, and
that is sin in one of its thousand forms. The Lord Jesus does not
fill dirty cups. Anything that springs from self, however small it
may be, is sin. Self-energy or self-complacency in service is sin.
Self-pity in trials or difficulties, self-seeking in business or
Christian work, self-indulgence in one's spare time, sensitiveness,
touchiness, resentment and self-defence when we are hurt or injured
by others, self-consciousness, reserve, worry, fear, all spring from
self and all are sin and make our cups unclean.[*] But all of them were
put into that other cup, which the Lord Jesus shrank from momentarily
in Gethsemane, but which He drank to the dregs at Calvary--the cup of
our sin. And if we will allow Him to show us what is in our cups and
then give it to Him, He will cleanse them in the precious Blood that
still flows for sin. That does not mean mere cleansing from the guilt
of sin, nor even from the stain of sin--though thank God both of
these are true--but from the sin itself, whatever it may be. And as
He cleanses our cups, so He fills them to overflowing with His Holy
Spirit.

And we are able daily to avail ourselves of that precious Blood.
Suppose you have let the Lord Jesus cleanse your cup and have trusted
Him to fill it to overflowing, then something comes along--a tou