This blog is less about myself and more about the words, stories and insights that well up inside of me. I debated starting this blog but find that there are fewer outlets for speaking into others' lives now that I am removed from a college community. Yes, there is the richer opportunity to dive deeper with fewer, and I relish this novel idea while still mourning the bountiful yet sometimes uncomfortable nature of living in close quarters.
I don't consider myself to have wisdom. That being said, I have been told that I have wisdom. But by saying I don't have wisdom, what I mean is this: if I have any knowledge, wisdom, truth, insight, revelation, etc., it is all something that I have received. I have nothing of myself that has not come from either the Lord or others who received such wisdom from the Lord or experience and trials used by the Lord to teach them said wisdom.
"What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?" I Corinthians 4:7.
From such, the name for this blog comes. Maybe I will change it at some point, but the title Empty Cups is what I feel like I have to offer. If there is an outpouring of anything--love, knowledge, compassion, discernment--it is He who makes my cup overflow. If His Spirit does not speak through me then no ears will hear, no eyes will see nor mountains be moved. Even in prayer, mountains are moved not by the depth of our prayer but by the strength of our God who made the mountains. When the Lord speaks, the earth melts. How much more will our hearts? But that is a topic for another post.
If you are still reading this, then you have made some kind of connection. Maybe you know me personally or maybe simply something I've said rings true in your heart. Maybe something said here will ring true again. But my prayer is that I would be a dying star, otherwise I might shine so bright as to distract from the only Light this world needs.
I will be upfront that some words I write will be objective, claiming that some things are true and that others are not true. However, I long to fill in the gaps between conviction and claiming by explaining. I don't believe truth is relative but don't please don't stop reading before you understand the Why behind the What. Whether I actually execute it well or not in my own life, I long to listen to others explain their own hearts rather than assume I understand the intentions behind their actions (James 1:19).
So all this is to say here we go. All praise and thanks be to Him if you are encouraged, edified, challenged, or rebuked. May my words only point others to His Word, which remains while mine does not (I Corinthians 1:25).
Thanks friends,
~Bennett
P.S. All references made refer to the Bible unless otherwise noted.
