Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Working Like A Boss: A Red Cup of Joe
Working Like A Boss: A Red Cup of Joe: This red cup controversy has me hard pressed and brewing with great disappointment. The plain red cup has a purpose, to hold hot liquid for ...
A Red Cup of Joe
This red cup controversy has me hard pressed and brewing with great disappointment. The plain red cup has a purpose, to hold hot liquid for consumption. It is not to be a soap box for you to spout off your mouth for sound bites. I wish that followers of Jesus everywhere would filter their words with biblical conviction and accuracy. The social media platform has become a place where bullies can pour out their cups of venom on everyone. They seem to have a course ground batch of selfishness in a hot cup of bitterness sleeved in a jacket of arrogance. Please people, if you actually sat down with others over a cup of Joe, you would not be so bold. This kind of bullying has to stop. Your fingers and thumbs are not strong enough to back you up when confronted in reality. Instead of stirring up trouble and serving steaming cups of sarcasm let's thirst for respect and start sipping sweet friendship with real face time. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not a replacement or an upgrade for your real life relationships. They can be great tools used for bringing us together more often and for better expressions of gratitude and love. Let us not forsake getting together. The power of presence changes people. God has made you to desire the real life contact with others. No one truly likes loneliness. Stop roasting your beans with the burning of anger and unforgiveness. God is your creator and He knows you and loves you. You are His creation and He has more purpose for you than the red cup. He has designed you for His glory. You are to be filled with His Spirit and poured out to serve Him. Your identity and value comes from Him not you or others. So lets brew some great coffee and stir up each other toward godliness.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV)
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. (1 Peter 3:14-17 ESV)
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. (Galatians 5:13-15 ESV)
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:18-21 ESV)
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV)
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. (1 Peter 3:14-17 ESV)
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. (Galatians 5:13-15 ESV)
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:18-21 ESV)
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