I'm sitting here this morning drinking my Starbucks
French Roast and thinking about what seems so remarkable
and complicated
about how
coffee came to be. I can just see some South American farmer sitting
next to a coffea plant one day and suddenly seeing visions of shelling
its red berries to get to the little bean inside. And once he saw that little
bean, he would immediately know to dry it, roast it, grind it up, and
pour hot water over it through a filter in order to get one of the most
popular beverages in the world. I'm sure that's how it happened!
Don't you ever wonder about stuff like this or am I the only one? And
doesn't it make you wonder how many other drinks or potions are still
out there undiscovered? Why did we find the ones we found? Were we
wired a certain way? Is it just random that we landed on coffee? Could it
just as easily have gone another way and suddenly we are all drinking
hot baba from the babao plant? (Don't go looking; I just made those up.)
All this tells me that we are not alone in not being an accident. That
little bean inside the coffea berry is no accident either. God has built all
sorts of beneficial secrets into his creation and then left us to discover
them and use them. And this comes with responsibility as well because
some of these secrets are harmful. That's all a part of the good and evil
around us that makes life such a challenge.
All of this makes me stop dead in my tracks and go, “God, you are so
awesome! To have plants, animals, natural resources, and an environment
in which they can all thrive together is one thing. The brains to make something
out of all these resources, and the potential to use what we make for good or for
evil are even more incredible gifts you have given your creatures. Who could
have thought up a God like you? Certainly none of us.”
So enjoying my coffee today has turned into an unplanned act of worship. It's
amazing how you can access thoughts of God through the simplest channels.
It's really not that hard once you start thinking down this road. That we can
go about our work and never give a thought to what's behind the world we deal
with every day is the real scandal.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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6 comments:
Oh Heather, thanks for sharing that - it was awesome!
A friend of my mom's was on a cruise and they took a tour of a cashew farm (not sure if that is the correct term or not) - but, they learned that there is a poison in cashews that has to be removed to eat them - I asked, Gee - who was the lucky one to figure that out! hee hee
Again, a great devotional to share! Thanks
I just noticed that parts of it are cut off...I edited the post after I first posted it. I enlarged the font because it was hard to read... guess I better go make it a bit smaller.
Great post. Yes, everything that God has made is so awesome!
Hiya Heather :)
After just telling you earlier today that I probably wont be blogging again until Sept...I started to look at some blogs today and started feeling like it was time to blog again!
:)
Anyways, I look forward to catchin up with ya on here and on FB..
Hugs,
Candy :)
The more we think about God the more marvelous He becomes to us. The more we think we know and understand the more we realize how very little we know. BUT we know enough to know how very much He loves us and that He died for us!!!
Susan
When I was a kid we had a set of World Book Encyclopedias. I don't remember which word it was found under but in one of the books there were pages of the human body. These were clear lay-over pages arranged by system. All the bones, then all the circulation, all the nerves, the organs, all the muscles, finally the skin. I remember those pictures when I think about those who don't believe in God, and instead push evolution. Once you see how intricate and fine-tuned a person's body systems are it becomes riduclous to think that it happened by "accident". Now think, that's just one animal in an entire universe full of different things, some living, others not.
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