God is my Cup of Tea!
Life is often made more interesting by the questions it prompts.
Questions like –
- What is my purpose?
- Why am I here?
- What is my place?
- Where do I belong?
- What should I be doing?
Then there is the ultimate question of – Is there a God? And if there is, what does He expect of me?
Since we are created for a specific purpose, we cannot adopt an attitude of neutrality toward the God who made us without being morally irresponsible.
God is not optional – He is an imperative. Only by the Spirit of God acting on our human spirit can we ever be enabled to behave as God intended us to behave. Our behavior is intended by God to be a pure expression of His divine nature.
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man whole, you are left with no option but to find God, to know God, and to let God be God in you and through you.
It takes God to be a man, and wholeness is the consequence of God’s capacity to reproduce Himself in you.
When you act in strict obedience to the “truth” of God’s Word, the “truth” behaves, and the end effect is wholeness.
The Christian life is not so much what we do to please God but the yielding of our lives to Him so that He can, through the indwelling Christ, do through us His will.
All of Him is in me – all of Him in me is available to me and through me to the world around me.
Think about this through the analogy of a cup of hot water and a tea bag. The water is not the tea and the tea is not the water. They are two separate items.
When the tea bag is placed in the water, a remarkable thing takes place – the water changes color and nature. It becomes indwelt by a new and dominant nature.
The nature of the tea saturates the water until it becomes tea – not water. For the water to exist now is for tea to exist.
The water could say – it is no longer I that exist, but tea that lives in me.
As a Christian, I am just a cup of water, which, when heated by the Holy Spirit and mixed with faith and indwelt by the Savior, becomes a new creation.
