Your Morning Coffee 03/13/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father call us back to His side today, as we wander, as we stray. Father, call out to us in love, as you promise intimacy. May we embrace your invitation, "walk with me." Help us to be satisfied first in you, most in you, and best in you. Help us, in the name of Jesus, to trust and rest in you. Amen.

Your Morning Song: "Boldly I Approach" by Rend Collective

Your Morning Scripture: Psalm 16:11

You make known to me the path of life;

in your presence there is fullness of joy;

at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

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How peculiar are you?

You may be thinking to yourself, and rightly, "what has that got to do with anything?"

Are you a son or daughter of God? If yes, then you would certainly agree that we are and must be different from the world around us. We cannot and must not be the same as those who are not a part of God's Family. At the very least because otherwise what are we inviting them into if it is all the same?

But it is not the same. God's Family is different.

Let's not aim too high here, trying to catch the whole of it. Perhaps something smaller, something more and less familiar.

Are you peculiar?

An example.

How in the world can I be more satisfied with a simple cup of coffee than others seem to be with far bigger and greater things? The children of this world, sick with their sin, can't seem to find satisfaction in... ...anything.

The child of God can find satisfaction in everything. No matter how small.

How peculiar.

How is this possible?

We are satisfied, as God's Children, first and best and most, in God Himself. We find our joy and pleasure in His guiding love and comforting presence. God is the only one who can satisfy the longing of the human heart. We were made to be this peculiar way.

And so if we look to God for satisfaction, first, most, and best, then we will find it there, with Him.

And all of the sudden, like a blurry picture snapping into focus, the whole of the rest of our lives will come together with a lasting bursting of bright joy.

And satisfied in our Heavenly Father, Jesus our Savior, and the Spirit, He who comforts us, we will be able to find satisfaction everywhere else.

And to a world that does not know Jesus as Lord and Savior, our ability to be satisfied in less as they are disappointed in more, will mark as different, as peculiar.

And they will want to know, why? How?

Tell them.