Enjoy Your Coffee!

A group of alumni ministers, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old Bible college professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in their ministries and life in general.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.When all the ministers had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is just normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself, adds no quality to the coffee in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups, and then began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: the Life of Christ within you is the coffee, and YOU are the cups. You are just tools to hold and contain the Life of Christ, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the inherent quality of the Life of Christ

You all are different qualities of cups. Some of you are as fragile as crystal. Others of you are very plain looking. Some of you may be as strong as golden chalices. Others of you may be as weak as paper cups. But sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."God brews the coffee for consumption, not the cups - enjoy your coffee.

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