Shall I Not Drink It?

John 18:11 KJV
Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

Too often we are not willing to drink the cup which our Heavenly Father has given us.

We draw out our sword
We cut off ears - or worse
We refuse to put away the sword when even the Lord commands us to do so.
We either refuse to let the Lord give us the cup or else
We refuse to believe the cup is from the Lord

We fight
We fight a hopeless battle believing that God will help us win a fight He has never sanctioned us to enter.

Fight believing ignorantly that God would never desire that His children should suffer at the hands of this world or that God would never want us to give the people of this world the pleasure of believing they have won a victory over us.

But the battle in Jesus' case was not won with the sword; it was won through what the world thought was their own victory. The devil put Christ to death, but that death was the very event that sealed Satan's own demise.

God has a cup for each of us, who are His own, to drink. Victory comes, not through resisting the cup but embracing it.