Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Waiter Serves the Wine

I'm onto this waiter thing again; that's because I was at a restaurant recently and watched a waiter serving wine. Now that is an ordinary everytime-task for a waiter but if you consider yourself a waiter, who waits on His promises, here are some tips I picked up watching the waiter, yet again...
  • Serve the wine openly - let the joy of the Spirit overflow in public worship not only in private worship.
  • Let the guests taste the wine - let the people partake of His Spirit by introducing them to the river of His presence and let them rejoice in Him by having longer worship times.
  • Fill up their glasses intermittently - don't have a one-time revival worship and expect the people to be continuously joyful, fill them up to overflowing like Jesus did at Cana, and let the revival be endless.
  • Ask them if they enjoyed the drink - the joy on their faces will let you know and they will do the evangelizing for you as they invite their friends to "come and see", like the woman at the well.

So go ahead and practise being an excellent waiter while you wait on His promises to be fulfilled....have another drink!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent perspective!

Becky Wolfe said...

This is great. I just mentally reviewed the waitress of the last restaurant I ordered wine in (on Sunday) and she did exactly that. Pour just a little, let me taste, pour a little more later on, (so I sipped it) double check to see that I like it. Nobody does that with coffee or tea. *grin* Great analogy & wisdom.

Juliet Amaka King said...

Yes, Becky; and the neat thing about it is: the waiter always endeavours to recommend and serve the best wine in the house...go figure!