I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.  Would that you were either cold or hot!  So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

~ Revelation 3:15-16

 

"Cafe Mocha or Frappucino, Lord Jesus?"  Jesus would take both, I'm sure.  The Cafe Mocha is hot, the Frappucino is cold; both bless him.  Surely Jesus would have had coffee in mind had he spoken these words in our day of Starbucks and Coffee Beans.  There is one kind of coffee Jesus does not want to receive from us: that leftover coffee sitting on a table in the center of the coffee shop, neither hot nor cold...but room temperature.  Were Jesus to walk into the local coffee shop, the hostess would serve him the best, either the hot or the cold.  The bum off the streets she may give the leftover coffee.  But not Jesus.  How about the coffee shop of our souls?  Are we serving him the Cafe Mocha, the Frappucino, or the leftover coffee reserved for the bums.  What's the difference between the leftover coffee and the Cafe Mocha and Frappucino?  The leftover coffee doesn't bless him.  He doesn't like it.  Does Jesus like what's flowing out of us?  Is he blessed by our love or put off by our apathy.  There is only one cure for serving him the leftovers: throw all the leftovers in the trash and get the coffee-maker brewing and the ice-grinder grinding.  And, don't forget, bless him some more with whip cream on top.  I'm sure he'll enjoy it.