Tea is such a delicious and refreshing drink. But you can't make tea without hot water. God wants your life to be successful. But here is the thing. Like tea, you can't have a successful life without going through hot water. Just as the hot water draws out the dried herbs and spices that are in tea, likewise, the crises, challenges, controversies, hardships, and disappointments you are going through bring out the dormant talents, gifts, virtues, and other redeeming qualities that you have in you, which could not have come out without heat. Like gold, you can only be refined through fire. You are not being destroyed. You are being restored so you can be prepared to be preferred. You aren't being rejected. You are being perfected to be accepted. And on this Monday that you were on God's wake-up list, I pray that you will also make it to His promotion list, in Yeshua's Name.