Sweetened with three ingredients – Thomas Brooks

“The cup which My Father has given Me shall I not drink it?” John 18:11

Never did bridegroom go with more cheerfulness to be married to his bride than our Lord Jesus went to His cross! Though the cup which the Father put into Christ’s hand was bitter, very bitter yes, the bitterest which ever was put into any hand yet He found it sweetened with three ingredients:
1. It was but a cup; it was not a sea.
2. It was His Father, and not Satan, who mingled it, and who put in all the bitter ingredients in it.
3. It was a gift, not a curse, as to Himself. The cup which my Father gives me.