A Simple Cup of Tea

While making a cup of tea I am reminded of a illustration I heard years ago. When making a cup of tea you need to place the tea bag in the boiling water and then wait. Some will wait a few minutes and others will wait for a half hour or so. For you see, your wait time depends on how strong of a flavor you like your tea to be. If we dip quickly we will still have a bit of flavor to our tea and the water will change color, but it will taste weak. If we let the tea bag steep for awhile, we will have a strong and flavorful cup of tea.

Where is this going? When we take time to read God's Word, sometimes we dip in and out quickly. You know the five minute devotions and then you are out the door to start your day, or turn the light off and drift off to sleep. Neither of these are wrong, if done occasionally, but the amount of time you spend with God and in His Word, will carry you through your day. Those who spend time reading His Word, studying the scriptures and then applying them to their daily life will have a much richer and deeper relationship with Him. Those who allow time to "steep" in God's Word, also have a richer and deeper relationship with Him. If you take a quick dip in the Word, you can still have a relationship with Him, but it will not be as rich and flavorful as it could be. He wants so badly for you to spend time at His feet and look into His face for the strength and wisdom He is waiting to share. He never meant for us to go through this journey of life alone, yet, so many times we try to do it by ourselves and then come away exhausted because it simply didn't go as we planned.

Are you a "dipper" or a "steeper"? Reminder to be a steeper, we have to wait and spend time doing things with gradual results, just as the tea will gradually change color and flavor, but in the end the wait will be well worth it! You just can't beat a great cup of tea! **Okay, if your a coffee fan, you need to wait too for your coffee to brew to get that rich, dark flavor.

Hoping you can find a little more time throughout this week to spend with God. It doesn't have to be hours a day. Just spending a bit more time this week with God than you did last week and so on. Before you know it, He will become part of your daily walk. Remember, He desires relationship with us. Not just knowledge of who He is.

I think I may just go make a cup of tea....