THE CASE OF GREEN TEA

 A story is told of a pastor who traveled somewhere for a conference, on one night when he returned to his hotel room he called for black tea, the waitress returned with a cup of tea, but on close observation he found out that it was actually green tea and not black tea, he called the waitress and told her, but to his surprise she continued to argue with him saying it was black tea, after a while she decided to bring the pack she took the tea from, when she brought the pack it was apparently a black tea pack, but when the teabags were carefully examined it was actually green tea. Apparently someone had opened a larger pack of green tea and put some of it in an empty pack of black tea.
    My question today is as a Christian are you actually black tea in a black tea carton or are you green tea in a black tea packet? Let me break it down a little, the hot water in the story above can be likened to trials in our lives yeah, after all the Sunday services, mid week services, bible study, crusade's, praying in tongues and evangelism three times a week during the good times who are you during your trying periods? Are you still that fervent Christian person? Or do you get mad at God and stay home from anything that has to do with him? Your dedication and love for God shouldn't be tied to situations, if anything should be constant in your life, it should be God. You could call yourself a Christian for all you are, the true test and proof of your Christianity is your reaction when you're thrown in hot water. Someone once said "while you're waiting for the storm to pass learn to dance in the rain" the ones who can do this are the original black tea, the ones who can still lift up their hands to heaven and say"I love you forever lord" when all of life is against them, yeah! They are the original "black tea"
Remember the true flavor of a tea bag is not gotten unless it is thrown into hot water. I guess it's what the book of proverbs meant when it said"if you faint in the time of adversity then your strength is small"
xoxo
Busayo kehinde