What will you have to drink?

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I’ve been a customer of Starbucks since the 1990’s, but I still don’t know everything on the menu.

So moments ago I was talking with the manager of the local Starbucks I frequent, asking a few questions about tea options. Like many drinks at this establishment, there are a myriad of blends and mixes that can be made to create unique flavors.

Our brief discussion about beverages reminded me of how popular preacher Francis Chan once used an illustration about drinks as a challenge to how we live — or don’t live — for Jesus …

    Many people love Jesus but they also love the sin of the world. Because they dabble in both, they are miserable. It’s like loving lemonade and frappuccino and drinking from both instead of one or the other. It will make you sick. Loving the world and loving God will make you miserable.

Chan finishes his illustration with this:

    Some drinks can be mixed, just as some interests can compliment one another. But some mixtures are so contradictory that to mix them is to create something that’s noxious. The interests of the world and the interests of God can’t be mixed.

    “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too …” (1 Corinthians 10:21).

    “So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace” (Romans 8:6, NLT).

So, what will you have to drink?

Scotty