the spirituality of sprite™

remember when sprite use to run the "image is nothing, thirst is everything" commercials? i always found it humerous that the coca cola company was repackaging their product (in other words, making over its image) as a "who cares what it looks like, just obey your thirst and drink up" product. yet, in their quest to throw off an image label, they simply traded one image and took on another.

.oO(that'll preach)

in the garden, adam and eve traded a pure image for a tainted one. they gave up His Glory in search of their own glory, and what did they find? they discovered they were naked.

we get to wake up every morning with the opportunity to choose whose glory we're going to live for.

here's another tie in: the answer to our daily decision comes in the form of this next question (are ya ready?): "what are we thristy for?" well, ok, that's only part of the question and the only part that ties in. the other part of the question is "what are we hungry for?"

matthew 5:6 says that if we hunger and thirst for righteousness, we are blessed because we will be filled.

the opposite of that, i would assume, is if our hunger and thirst is for anything less than righteousness and the holiness of God, then we will be unsatisfied.

i guess this all goes back to what our treasure is. in one post, i made the comment that a man dying of thirst in a desert will gladly give up diamonds for a glass of water. i once saw the previews for a movie that i have no desire to actually see, but writing about treasures spurred a memory. at one point in the preview, a woman looks across a desk and says, "so, you're treasure hunters..." and one of the men says, "i like to think we're treasure protectors..."

i want to be more than just a treasure hunter, because they are little more than glorified grave robbers (this is not a poke at archeology, which is an important mating of history and science); i don't care to be a treasure protector. the late evangelist, c.h. spurgeon once called the bible "a roaring lion; you don't have to protect it, you just have to set it loose." no, i want to be a treasure giver.

because if my treasure is the glory of God, and i find pleasure in my Treasure, then i want to share my pleasure with as many people as possible- not keep it locked inside the vault of my heart.

.oO(wow, this thread didn't go where i thought it was going to go...)

for the world-wide renown of His sovereign glory...