So I haven't posted in a very long time but I thought that tonight was an appropriate night to change that.
In the past month and a half I have seen God bless me in ways that I so did not deserve. Over Christmas break God opened some amazing doors to ministry and it blew me away that despite the fact that I was completely unqualified, God still choose to use me. But I asked myself why me and this is what I came up with.
I was reading the other day in Matthew about Jesus and his disciples and just about every time that Jesus told the people a parable he then explained the parable to the disciples. I was sitting in a wonderful coffeeshop called The Good Cherry and it was there that I found a sermon series in a simple cup of coffee. The sermon came to life because of my passion for coffee and everything related coffee.
At The Good Cherry, they have this coffee machine called the clover that is designed to bring out the best in the coffee. The clover is a mixture of a vacuum coffee brewing method and a french press brewing method. Both of these methods are meant to accentuate the intricacies of the coffee and through this amazing machine I found principles within Jesus's ministry.
When Jesus was in and around his disciples he acted like the clover coffee machine. Jesus in his ministry brought out the best in every person and extracted every intricacy of each person that he surrounded himself with and I realized that God is trying to be the clover in my life simply meaning that God wants to extract everything I have. However, coffee all starts with a good bean, and if I am not sowing good things then God can't extract good things. In order for God to really get everything he wants to get out of me I first must be surrendered to his purpose or else I am sitting waiting and not seeing the finished product. Jesus wants to extract everything from us but we first must be planting good things into our lives. Now as Paul said, I am the least of these and I do not deserve any of these amazing things that God has given me but just like the parable of the talents, God wants to see what I do with the good and the bad situations.
As long as we place no limits on God he will place no limits on us, which in this silly illustration means that as long as we are allowing God in, he can extract all that is good in us just like the Clover.
