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At Hank’s Place we love coffee. In fact, for the past several years I’ve been roasting our own special blend of love in a cup.
Recently Mary and I visited Homestead Heritage, an agrarian Christian community just outside of Waco, TX. In the course of visiting I met Ben, (PHOTO) their own coffee roaster. Ben began with the same home roaster machine I use, but in his quest for that perfect cup of coffee, he went and bought an entire coffee plantation in the mountains of Ecuador! And the totally computer controlled 40 thousand dollar Diedrich roaster you see in the photo.
In addition, he is developing a machine to sift green coffee beans. (PHOTO) At gravity speed this machine examines each and every bean, looking for rejects. (VIDEO) Tiny jets of compressed air shoot the beans that don’t make it out into the reject pile!
Too small? Rejected. Split? Rejected. Chipped or a bit of rust or blight? Rejected and so on! The machine is looking to REJECT all but the best of the beans.
This man is on a quest to achieve the very best cup of coffee ever and he’s well on his way!
Did you know many Christians, and I hope not you, think the same way about God? That He’s looking to reject the many and accept only the very best for His eternal kingdom?
NO! What works in the quest for the perfect coffee is NOT the way the Father works – Remember Jesus?
He was the totally perfect one — who died for us. The Father’s plan, full of amazing grace, was to QUALIFY as many imperfect people as possible for His son’s kingdom!
God simply asks us to believe it, that God so loved the world He would do this – and BOOM we join His family. Jn 3:16.
Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved – no exceptions. Acts 2:21.
Don’t fear the ‘sorting machine’ at the end of your life, dear friend, for you who believe are already accepted beans in the Lamb’s book of life.
And we all, as one family, are well on our way to becoming that perfect brew for the Father.
Smell that aroma? Smell it today — and COME ALIVE!
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