[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] FW: [CWWC] WHICH ARE YOU?

[Michael Moore]

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WHICH ARE YOU?


I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
<https://link.biblegateway.com/click/24012954.1990/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmlibGVnY
XRld2F5LmNvbS9wYXNzYWdlLz9zZWFyY2g9UGhpbC40LjEz/5ef562bd10222374f46b6174B0ac
72788> Philippians 4:13

A young woman went to her mother and told her how things were so hard for
her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up.
She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was
solved a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the
first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she
placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots
out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a
bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see?" "Carrots, eggs,
and coffee," she replied.

She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted
that they were soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break it. After
pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked
her to sip the coffee. The daughter tasted its rich aroma.

The daughter then asked. "What does it mean, mother?"

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same
adversity-boiling water-but each reacted differently. The carrot went in
strong, hard and unrelenting. After being subjected to the boiling water, it
softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had
protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water,
its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however.
After they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.

"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your
door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot that seems strong, but with pain
and adversity, do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Or are
you an egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Do
you have a fluid spirit, but after a loved-one's death, a relationship
breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have you become hardened
and stiff? Does your shell look the same, but on the inside you are bitter
and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart? Or are you like a coffee
bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that
brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and
flavor. If I am like the bean, when things are at their worst, I get better
and change the situation around me through Christ-likeness.

When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate to
another level? How do you handle adversity?

RESPONSE: Christians are like carrots, eggs or coffee beans. They don't know
how strong their response is until they get into hot water. Which are you?

PRAYER: Lord, help me realize that every experience You gives me, every
person You put in my path, is the perfect preparation only You can see.

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