God and Coffee

So, I’m in the school’s convenience store today, looking around for something I can have that’s not 1000 calories, and I find a big canister of coffee.  Now, I’ve heard that coffee’s only a few calories per cup, so I figure I’ll try it.  No big deal.

I quickly learned that no matter what flavor you get, it will taste bad if you don’t add anything.

It not only burnt my tongue (thankfully I’m typing instead of speaking) but it also tasted like garbage.  I watched as others came up, poured this vile substance into their cups, and walked away sipping it like it was nothing.  What?!  How on earth do people do this?!

I tried again, but this time with cream and sugar, and it’s OK.  If it weren’t for me trying to eat healthier, I wouldn’t dare touch this stuff.  It is better than my drink of choice, Mountain Dew, but at least that tastes good.  I walked to the library, where I’m typing this right now, and it hit me:

We treat God like coffee.

That’s right folks!  When we first her about God or experience God, we don’t want anything to do with Him.  We can’t understand why anybody would be a part of anything to do with God (namely, the church.)  We treat God like black coffee: he doesn’t fit our spiritual taste buds.  We have to add to Him to make Him worthwhile, like adding cream and sugar to coffee.  The cream and sugar is like those times when we pull from other religions in order to “find” God, as if He went missing or something.  The people who can take God straight up, like black coffee, would be like the people who fully understand who God is: the Trinitarian God of the Bible.  They don’t have to add anything to accept who God is; they just go with the flow.  They take God for what He is: Creator, Ruler, the Truth, Life, and Way.

If you’ve followed along and you get what I mean, praise God!  The Holy Spirit is letting you understand a weirdo like me with a passion for the Word.  My prayer is that we don’t treat God like coffee, where we have to add things to make Him appealing to us.  God tells us in both Deuteronomy and Revelation that we cannot add anything to His Word, and He even says that this is punishable by plagues mentioned in Revelation (Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:32, Revelation 22: 18-19.)  Why would He tell us not to add subtract from His Word?  My guess would be that it’s because He wants us to be obedient and accept Him.  How can we try not to accept our Creator and Lord?  It just doesn’t make sense.  Pray about this.  Make sure that you’re not willing to compromise and alter your perception of God based on unbiblical ways.  Make sure that your life is on track with what God has in mind.  Make sure that if you treat God like coffee, treat Him like black coffee, realizing that adding to Him is wrong and that you may not agree now, but over time you will develop a liking for the Lord, which will hopefully lead you to accepting Jesus as Savior.  That’s my prayer at least.  God bless you.

You Brother in Christ,

Phillip