In Korea we drink everything from small metal cups. There are no water fountains - all water is dispensed from little machines; either into small slips of paper folded into a cup (it's a soggy mess) or into little metal cups. At church functions everyone is issued a small metal cup.
The first time I drank from a small metal cup, the overwhelming sensation was the size. It was tiny, two gulps or 4 sips small. The other sensation was the cold slipping away. When you put cold liquids into the cup, the coolness transfers to your hand by the 4th sip.
When you put hot liquids into the cup, it's even worse. The cup become much too hot to hold, so you set it down for a second - and by the time you pick it back up, your hot coffee is now luke-warm coffee water.
Metal is a perfect conductor. Which is great for lots of things - like wires that transmit electricity. But that's a terrible predicament for a cup to be in.
It's the opposite of a thermos. It makes hot things cool and cold things warm.
Who wants to drink a luke-warm beverage? Ever?
Revelation 3:16 "So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
Hot water is useful. Cold water is useful. Lukewarm water is useless.
But it's not the water's fault - it's the cup. The tiny metal cup is the problem.
Sometimes our faith is hot or cold - sometimes it's usefull to those around us. Sometimes our faith is lukewarm - it's useless to those around us.
It's not the fault of the faith ... it's the fault of the container.
So how do we order our lives to be less like a little metal cup and more like a thermos.
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Wow what great insight this is I'm going to post on my facebook. Thanks for your never ending loving God.
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