My advisor in college presented me with an analogy that has stuck with me ever since. Here is a synopsis.
Our heart is made up of different cups. We have a husband cup (gentlemen you have a wife cup), kids cup, friend cup, ministry cup. These cups begin empty, and nothing can fill them but the recipient of the cup. Nothing but a husband will fill my husband cup. Nothing will fill my kids cup but kids. Nothing will fill my ministry cup but ministry. The unfortunate thing is that people are flawed, so sometimes though the position is filled, the cup is still empty. We are a people that long, as long as we have empty cups we long to have them filled.
What keeps these longings at bay and our hearts from exploding when the cups are empty, is the giant God-cup we all also have. This is the only cup that can be satisfied, fully satisfied. When we ask God to fill our God-cup He does. In fact, He fills it to the measure of all the fullness of Christ. That means that our God-cup not only can be filled, but there is always more of God than can fill the cup. He is a never-depleted source. The intent I think God had in mind is that He would fill our God-cup so full that it would overflow in such abundance so as to spill out and fill the other cups. Granted, the recipients of the cups are still meant to fill the cups, but God can fill them with Himself in a different way, a way that fully satisfies though the longing is still there.
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