I’m going to warn you… what I’m about to say you may not want to hear for once you’ve heard you will be held accountable for your own actions…Recently my little brother came home for a friend’s wedding and during one of the days in which we actually spent some time together we took a little drive thru one of my favorite places for a little pick me up… Starbucks :)
Now we’re in the drive thru and all my brother is saying “Hey kid how's those slave camps treating ya” and “Hey local coffeeshops that are being shut down and dreams that are crushed” and “Hey babies that can't talk due to there being aborted” (I just copied and pasted those quotes directly from his twitter feed @sethcaleb so any misspellings are his and his alone) and I’m like “Shut up”
But then later that night as I partake in my nightly ritual of scrolling through the facebook and twitter feeds to tire my eyes so I can actually go to sleep, I see the above mention quotes on my brother’s twitter feed and I’m suddenly appalled and angry and disappointed all at the same time…
….I’m a woman, I can do that…
And then this thought hit me… “do I really contribute to the very things I fight against?” I support charities that rescue girls from sex trafficking and slaves from camps and local shelters for women to get counseling and not abortions and I want to open my own little coffee shop.
With my small addiction to Starbucks am I in turn putting the money in the hands of these people and every other organization Starbucks supports? Just like the state farm commercial (or whatever that insurance company is) where the husband bought a falcon because of the savings he made from switching insurance companies.
Am I?
This is a serious concern…no seriously it is
Like I want those things that I do to bring God glory right? So in my every day walk I have to make decisions to do that and by going to a business that operates under ideals that are contrary to the Word of God itself is that in turn sinning because I consciously ordered my Non-Fat Iced Grande Mocha?
That’s the line that I’m at. There’s no way to avoid the world because we’re in it. But like what does the Word of God say about these situations…I have to pay taxes…unavoidable…even if you’re on Obama’s cabinet…but what about the pleasures of life like coffee. And chocolate. And Ice cream…
You get my drift? What is the end line here…
As to each decision a person makes in their life and just as the Samaritan women whom Jesus spoke to at the well, her own village didn’t believe her till they say it for themselves, this choice is one in which I will need to procure a revelation to. As will you.
We can’t take the ideals of any one person until we receive a revelation of it in our hearts.
And I hope…they’re right
