{"id":40846,"date":"2025-11-23T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=40846"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:07:21","slug":"when-empty-cups-are-full-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/when-empty-cups-are-full-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"When empty cups are full of love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I get up on a cold morning, hold the cup in my hand, and take the first sip of fresh coffee, I feel warmth rising inside me. It&#8217;s a moment when I feel safe and alive.<br>But what happens when the cup is empty? An empty cup can mean disappointment for me, a feeling that something is missing, or remind me of times when I felt lonely, broken, or lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><em>\u201cAs the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<cite><em><em><em>Psalm 42,2<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is precisely in these moments, when I feel empty inside, that I experience God encountering me. His love fills my emptiness.<br>My gaze wanders to the empty cup, where I discover the heart made of foam at the bottom of the cup. It is still there, even though I created it on the full cup. This small sign reminds me that God&#8217;s love remains\u2014even when my life feels empty.<br>God is always ready to fill your life with His love. No matter how empty you feel, His presence warms you like a cup of coffee on a cold morning.<br>Have you ever discovered God&#8217;s love in your emptiness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicable Bible text:\u00a0<strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/John4%3A1-42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John 4:1\u201342<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I get up on a cold morning, hold the cup in my hand, and take the first sip of fresh coffee, I feel warmth rising inside me. It&#8217;s a moment when I feel safe and alive.But what happens when the cup is empty? An empty cup can mean disappointment for me, a feeling that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40848,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40846\/revisions\/40848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}