| | Caffeinated Life - Episode 4
Make it fresh daily
Up to this point, we've been talking about the dangers of not living Caffeinated Christianity. We're switching gears a little bit now and I'm going to focus on the steps we need to take to stay caffeinated. In this episode - make it fresh daily. Few things are more distasteful to me as day-old coffee, except for maybe two-day-old coffee. The longer a pot of coffee sits, the fouler it becomes!
Starbucks goes so far as to put its coffee on timers. After one hour has passed, whether one cup has been served from the pot or it has nearly been drained, they toss it and brew it fresh. Why? They are that concerned that every customer coming into the store has the freshest coffee experience possible. The question I have then is this, if Starbucks is so concerned with keeping its coffee fresh and is willing to throw out the old stuff just to make sure it is the freshest possible, why are we willing to go days or sometimes weeks without spending time with God and keep our relationship with Him fresh?
In Ephesians 5:18, Paul gives us the command to “Be filled with the Spirit.” This is one of those occasions where the translation comes up short due to the differences in English and Biblical Greek. A better way of saying what Paul was trying to get across is to “Always be being filled.” In other words, don’t let the pot get stale. Make it fresh every day!
And it's not just going to affect you - OTHER people will be affected when you don’t have a regular experience with God. By not having a fresh experience with God on a daily basis, you are not just causing your relationship with God to suffer, but also affecting friends, accountability partners, people you are mentoring, and people you are reaching out to. If you are not fresh, how can expect to be the influencer that God has called you to be?
In the words of Rob Bell, "Is what you are giving being scraped off the bottom or poured off the top?" |
| | Posted 6/6/2006 3:33 PM - 26 comments
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