Is Your Glass Half Empty, Half Full, or Overflowing?

Seeing the glass as half empty or half full is a psychological dilemma people have poked and pondered for a very long time.  What does your view of the glass say about you?  Are you a half-full, or half-empty person?  Are you optimistic, or pessimistic?

We say those who view the glass as half full are generally optimistic, and others who view it half empty are pessimistic. What if either position is vain?

One solution to the dilemma might be to put it in a smaller glass that becomes full.  That would cause both to agree the glass is now full, but really just presents a new opportunity for envy knowing what they once had and has been taken away.  Maybe now both optimist and pessimist are saddened.

I suggest, however, either state of mind derived from a glass or its contents absent faith in the God who gives both drink and glass, is vanity.  Both have been deceived into thinking that their contentment should come from their glass or what is in it.

As the amount of liquid in their glass is the same, so can be the state of their eternal soul.  Optimist and pessimist will perish together, because they are equally lost and without true hope.  Both have found solace in vanity, and seek happiness in the drink that only their eyes perceive.  If both turn from their vain ways, however, and seek happiness in the One Who gives and takes away, both of their cups will overflow even if the cup that they see runs dry.
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Matthew 6:25
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Psalm 23:5-6
You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.