Black coffee

I had a revelation moment while standing in Starbucks ordering a coffee...  It has since forever changed the way I drink my coffee, viewed this generation, and read the word of God.

I was trying to figure out and becoming increasingly stressed over the terminology of having to order a coffee in a new place.  Furthermore having to think of all the wonderful things I would like to add to my coffee in order that I didn't taste actual coffee.  I began to suffer from pre-coffee anxiety and God in His ever so gentle way whispered,

"just drink a coffee, nothing added, nothing taken away. Just have a coffee."

What a strange thing for God to tell me.  Then a flood of things came to mind...  This generation, the word of God, how foreign the concept of church must seem to the new believer, how we can add and take away from the Bible in how we preach, or how we present salvation to a new believer. How ordering a coffee can be like ordering a church in every size and color to meet our wants, but then we are not really looking for church are we?  Or are we?

You can make your coffee to taste like whatever you like, but is it then coffee?

You can make the word of God say whatever you like, but is it then the word of God?

Is it time to start ordering your coffee black?  Is it time to start looking around in Starbucks instead of at the menu board?  Is it time to drink a coffee for what it is?  A bitter tasting, but warming and energizing substance to be taken in and savored?

Lets go for coffee...