It's cold. All right maybe 67 isn't cold to you, but to me it's cold and I don't like it....I live in Florida and I want it hot all day everyday, hot and sunny.Because it's so cold I felt the only thing I could do to make myself feel better about the dropping temperature is make a pot of tea.
Making tea is a very involved process.
Choose your tea, black, green, herbal, organic herbal, flavored, caf/decaf and on it goes.
Once you've chosen your tea then you can determine the water temperature. Black tea takes boiling water, any thing else the water needs to be just below boiling.
The pot has to be prepared by putting heated water in it to warm up so it doesn't break when you pour in the water from the tea kettle.
Pouring the hot water over the tea bags starts the process of steeping the tea. For black tea 5 minutes, green or lighter tea 3 minutes.
It's the steeping I want to address here.
The unsuspecting bag full of wonderful dried leaves is placed in a tea pot. The pot is warm and very cozy, nice place to be for a tea bag. Very comfortable...warm, dark nice place for a nap.
Then out of no where comes this boiling hot water being poured over the innocent tea bag till it is completely covered.
Totally immersed in hot water, something wonderful happens, the boiling water rehydrates the leaves and as they steep in this bath they begin to do the very thing they were created to do.
They release their flavor into the water, the aroma sneaks out of the tea pot filling the air around it with an inviting fragrance.
Soaking in the hot water doesn't take forever, even though it may seem like it. A short amount of time to make an entire pot of something soothing, healing, refreshing and tasty.
Once the steeping process is complete, the tea bags are removed. They are done, they have given everything and the plain water is infused with the sacrifice of the tea bag.
At this point the flavorful aromatic liquid is poured out of the tea pot into a heated cup to benefit anyone willing to drink.
No one has to worry if the tea bags will make tea when the hot water is poured on them. They will do what they do...when the appointed time for the steeping has come the water is tea.
It's a process that has guaranteed results.
When we are steeped in the Holy Spirit we have nothing to worry about.
All we have to do is allow the Holy Spirit to wash over us and steep in it's warm liquid. Allowing God to make provision for us.
When we immerse ourselves in Him and soak up His Spirit we will come to the place where we don't worry, we Know, He will provide for us.
The Message Bible translates Matthew 6:33,34 this way: Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
He will meet our needs, all of them, when we allow Him to completely immerse us in His Spirit.
Now, lets talk about the cookies we eat with the tea......
Blessings,
Princess, Daughter of the King of Kings
Mother of Princesses and Princes
Grandmother of Royalty
Oh yes, I want to steep in the water of the Word and bathe in the presence of the Holy Spirit, letting it change me, make me more like Him!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the WORD upon your heart this day Wendy in the manner in which the LORD gave it to you. He's faithful! May the HOLY SPIRIT's presence makes us more and more into the image of CHRIST as He works in and through us.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and peace.
Oh Wendy this was fantastic and much needed today. Thank you!
ReplyDelete...now, about those cookies.