Psalms
75:8 KJV
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red;
it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof,
all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
The picture of a cup in the
hands of God is a picture of judgment.
The Bible says of the wicked
that this judgment will not only be poured out upon them but that the dregs in
the bottom will then be wrung out for the wicked to drink. They will be judged
until the judgment of God is exhausted. While the mercy of God in new every
morning that mercy will not be extended on the Day of Judgment. Woe to the man
who faces this cup!
But the point of this passage
is that the wicked themselves wring out the dregs to drink the last drop of
God’s wrath. It is not God that withholds mercy; it is the wicked who will not
accept mercy.
So it is with those who are condemned to be lost.
Never let it be said that God
did this. The lost man is condemned to eternal hell because he has judged
himself unworthy of eternal life.
And
So it is with the Christian who chooses sin.
It is not that God has no means
of escape but that he has chosen a path that is not God's. He drinks the dregs
that he has wrung for himself.
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