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We look at the cup that the Father gave Jesus to drink from, and we can’t begin to understand its bitterness, and depth. We hear Jesus Himself call it a “bitter cup”, and though we see in it the wrath of God, we can’t begin to know how the pain, shame, hatred of men, the foul burden of sin, the full terror and unbridled power of Satan, and yes… the wrath of God too, could possibly join together in one cup to unleash the healing power of redemption that this cup’s distasteful medicine was meant to provide. We can’t see how this foul and “bitter cup” could be transformed into the sweetest cup of them all, the Cup of the New Covenant. We are inclined to see two cups because our sensitivity to Christ’s suffering causes us to wince, and look away from His disfigured body, and in that moment we miss seeing the final miracle, how the “bitter cup” becomes the cup of our salvation… our New Covenant with God.