THE TEA BAG

It’s funny how life has so much teaching in it yet most often than not we fail to see what life tries to teach us at any point in time. Something as simple as even brushing your teeth in the morning can be a great lesson which will help you at a point in your life.

In the evening I decided to prepare myself some tea before going to bed, and I was amazed the lessons tea thought me.

Tea is actually a simple meal to prepare. All you need is a cup, hot water, and a stomach to receive it. Sugar and milk are quite optional additives.

Remove a tea bag from its box and drop it into a cup of hot water. After a minute or two your tea is prepared. You then add sugar or milk to taste, and there you go, tea is ready. Such a simple process to put smiles on your face. But something struck me about this simple process.

The final stage or the purpose of a tea bag in its life time is to be used to prepare tea, in other words the end product of a tea bag is tea. But let’s look at the process it had to face to bring out its purpose.

First and foremost, it is picked from its box alone and drowned in a cup full of hot water, what does this mean?

GOD said to HIS friend Abraham that HE should separate himself from his father’s house and go where HE the LORD will show him because it was time for him to pursue his GOD given purpose on earth. It was time for him to be made a tea, therefore he separated himself from family, friends and loved ones. The tea bag like Abraham is separated from other tea bags because its time to make tea.

Secondly, it is drowned in hot water for steeping/brewing. I have personally not being drowned in water before, but the level of pain we express towards such on our TV screens when they are reported shows that it’s not a nice one.

we may not be drowned in water ,but we are drowned in various issues and problems of life. We chock for breath beneath such problems and issues hoping to come up the surface of such occurrences and gape for some air into our systems.

Not only is the bag drowned, but it is also taken out of its comfort zone to a much discomforting zone all in the name of fulfilling its purpose of tea. In its packaged box it enjoys normal room temperature, and time with other teabags. But it is taken and drowned in a hot temperature arena where it stays till tea is ready.

What am I saying here?

The good book says in Isaiah 46:10, GOD knows the end from the beginning. So HE actually knows and understand your purpose, and for its manifestation you need to be processed. Like a tea bag our purpose on earth is to make tea, and until we go through the processes listed above we will still remain tea bags.

Have you realized that the teabag has the ability to change the taste and colour of the hot water it is being drowned in. yes! That is your substance. In such difficult times, the problems and issues are supposed to change colour and taste because of the substance you carry in you.

Another interesting part of this process is the fact that after tea is made, that is after the real substance is obtained the residue is taken out and thrown away. The best and needed part of you remains with you for further future battles whereas the negative mind-sets, disregard, disrespect, self –denials and the like are thrown away.

Living your GOD given life can be very simple like the preparation of tea, but the processes involved is an uphill task. The good news here is the fact that GOD is the CHEF and with you as the tea bag, you can trust HIM to prepare a good tea for you.

so in conclusion,

Be ready to be steeped, and to be stirred to prepare a good tea for consumption.

Thank you.

By Samuel Tweneboah