Addicted.

I think that my relationship with coffee is a lot like my relationship with the gospel. For the longest time I hated coffee, I'd had one tiny sip when I was a kid and decided that the "gross" taste wasn't for me. Then I went to high school and started spending 75% of my life inside of a Starbucks, and even though Starbucks sells a lot more than coffee it's really hard to be in there and not drink coffee. So I decided to try it again, then I broke out our dusty family coffee pot and started brewing my own. It's safe to say that I am now addicted to a drink that I thought I was going to hate for life. 

Crazy how that works, isn't it? In life we get one small taste of something and decide it isn't for us. We go on living our lives in ignorance of the awesomeness we are missing with certain things. One of the biggest things, I feel, is the gospel. We're all exposed to it at one point in time and probably do what I did with coffee at first, leave it out of our life. I know that was the case for me. I grew up with a HUGE taste of the gospel, but decided that it wasn't really my thing. But for some reason I was in a situation where I was force to taste it again, and man had my taste changed. Realizing that we love something you once hated changes everything. One you get that first bit after all those years of distaste addiction sets in. I can't go a morning with out a cup of fresh brewed coffee and I can't get through life at all with out the good news of the gospel.

I'm sure you can think of at least one thing in your life that you're addicted to and can't live with out. Chances are you didn't always feel that way about whatever it is. The gospel has the same pick-me-up power that coffee, or whatever you're addicted to has. With out it life is dreary, scary, and sad. With it life is exciting and has a purpose. I challenge you to examine what you're addicted to in life...does the gospel any place in those addictions? If not, do you want it to be? (If I had to answer that for you it'd totally be yes...)

Live this week, and every week, addicted to the awesome lives that Christ provided for us through his death.

xoxo,

Abby just Abby