「我父所給我的那杯，我豈可不喝？」－約翰福音18:11
祂以哀傷為筆觸，七彩的環境為底蘊，揮灑出祂心中最高貴的形像。
塑造我們的神只盼望，我們能以正確的靈來接受祂恩賜的沒藥。
當我們挪開苦杯，不理會神的恩賜，我們靈魂將深受永難癒合的傷害。因為無人能知曉沒藥中所隱藏神超絕難以測度的愛。
這些原該對我們都是豐厚恩典，卻因著我們的漫不經心，我們竟然一無所獲。
然後我們會向神抱怨：「主啊！我靈裡枯乾，心裡黑暗！」
親愛的孩子，我告訴你，打開你的心，接受神為你預備的沒藥，因為這比外在的感覺和敬虔更與你的生命有益。－陶勒
"Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?" (John 18:11, Weymouth).God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of circumstance, to bring us into the form which is the highest and noblest in His sight, if only we receive His gifts of myrrh in the right spirit.
But when the cup is put away, and these feelings are stifled or unheeded, a greater injury is done to the soul that can ever be amended. For no heart can conceive in what surpassing love God giveth us this myrrh; yet this which we ought to receive to our souls' good we suffer to pass by us in our sleepy indifference, and nothing comes of it.
Then we come and complain: "Alas, Lord! I am so dry, and it is so dark within me!" I tell thee, dear child, open thy heart to the pain, and it will do thee more good than if thou wert full of feeling and devoutness. --Tauler
