Coffee!

Ok this is just a short and sweet revelation I had today... Sometimes my relationship with God is like my relationship with coffee... So if you don't know me, I like coffee, not only that... if I don't have coffee in the morning, I don't function. There for I guess it would be safe to say that I need coffee daily. However, sometimes I get caught up in the need and the habit of drinking coffee that I forget to enjoy it; it just becomes another part of my day or just something to keep me going... Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can be. You see, today I had a cup of coffee, aside from the ordinary morning coffee, just to enjoy it...

Now here I see this in my relationship with Jesus, sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the habit of it rather than the joy. It's easy to just go to church, occasionally read my Bible, but not experience the joy that comes with it. I try to find the joy in God every time I pray, because otherwise I feel fake. And, like coffee, I depend on God for my survival (clearly God is more important than coffee though, i could live without coffee if it was absolutely necessary). But like I said, I want to enjoy God and feel His presence every time I pray or go to church or just all the time in my life, I never want to feel like it's a habit, like my actions were in vain...

Last thing I promise, I also wonder what my motive for drinking coffee is... Is it the delicious taste or the remarkable ability that caffeine gives me to stay up in the wee hours of the morning? This 'side effect', I'll cal it, is an added bonus, but it should not be the only reason I drink it. I should drink coffee to experience the scrumptious taste and thirst quenching abilities it has, not just the side effects... Like this, we should go to church for the pure joy and thirst quenching abilities of Christ. Yes, the community (yay for Ember!) could be a plus or a 'side effect' but that should not be our sole purpose of going...

That is all, yay for coffee!