Chocolate Milk or Tea?

So, which are you, a chocolate milk thinker or a tea thinker? It's more important than it sounds. Think about it, do you believe you're one spirit with Him or do you see Him as just an additive to your old self?

Throw some Hershey's syrup in a glass of milk and the name we give what you just made suggests that one thing has been added to another--an obvious improvement, but still an additive. However, take a teabag and steep it in water for a few minutes, and no one calls the result "tea-water." We call it tea.

Why? Because we didn't just improve a cup of water, we made something completely different. In fact, the tea didn't simply alter the water, it took over. The water is no longer called what it was, but is now defined solely by what has transformed it. We just call it "tea."

The Holy Spirit is not an additive. He didn't improve you, He re-created you. You're not a better person, you're something completely different. You are not a combination of the old and new, either. You are defined solely by Him who has re-made and transformed you.

At some point I hope to develop a theology of sweet tea, but that will take further study. For now, try to see yourself as something re-made, not just improved. Think tea, not chocolate milk.