Brewing Up a Good Story
I’m so excited that I found biblical grounds
that my husband should be the one to make the coffee every morning. Hebrews.
You know, “He brews”? And it’s a
whole book. I figure that’s pretty solid biblical grounds, right? Wait. Did I
really twice mention biblical “grounds” in the middle of a bunch of coffee
talk?
Okay, so no doubt I need to stay more alert
in exactly how I read God’s Word. The extra-shot-of-espresso, high-caff kind of
alert. It’s important not to get lazy.
Isn’t it weird how we can sometimes make
God’s Word say things it’s not really saying? Stringing things together that
aren’t related, adding meaning where it doesn’t belong. Or sometimes we simply
neglect God’s Word altogether. And that’s altogether the wrong thing to do.
The thing is, there are essential
life-building truths we just can’t ignore if we want to live a vital,
fruit-filled, wide-awake kind of life in Christ. The Bible is not just a collection of good stories a group of people
brewed up. It’s God’s message to us. And there is plenty of meaning right there
in His Word—right there in black and white—without trying to squeeze out
something else. Meaning to last a lifetime. And meaning to change a lifetime.
Hebrews
Coffee may partially equip us for a
morning. But God’s Word thoroughly equips us for every good work. His Word
equips us for life!
I think I’ll be percolating on that truth
for a long time.
Meanwhile, I finally figured out that I can
program the coffee maker to make the coffee all by itself. Auto-brew. There’s
no book in the Bible about it or
anything like that, but is it okay if I tell you that I thought it was a pretty
marvelous “revelation”?
Rhonda Rhea is a radio personality with a recurring
role on Focus on the Family’s “Weekend Magazine” radio program and a conference
speaker for events all over the country. She is the wife of
