Your Morning Coffee 03/25/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father refresh our understanding of the wonderful power of His Word. Father you have given us the Bible so that we would know you and ourselves better. Help us to run to your Word, to take shelter in your Word, to be lifted up and sustained by your Word. In the name of Jesus, help us to treasure your Word above even our daily bread. Amen!

Your Morning Song: "As the Deer" by The Worship Initiative (ft. Shand & Shane)

Your Morning Scripture: Psalm 1

Blessed is the one

who does not walk in step with the wicked

or stand in the way that sinners take

or sit in the company of mockers,

but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,

and who meditates on his law day and night.

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,

which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither—

whatever they do prospers.

Not so the wicked!

They are like chaff

that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

...

There's a moment when I take that fateful step out of my house, onto the porch, and then onto the driveway, when it's covered with ice, and I don't realize it. I confidently step. And my foot slips, and a primal panic takes over for a moment, arms flailing, feet trying to catch some kind of traction. From steady to unsteady. Sliding and slipping away from solid and secure, towards Midwest blessed concrete.

I don't know if its different for other people, but I absolutely hate that feeling, of losing my footing, of losing my balance. Maybe it is my history of being athletic enough to think I am an athlete. But that sudden loss of stability is one of my least favorite things.

And this is a helpful way to see the difference here, in the Psalm above, between the way of the righteous and the way of the wicked. The righteous being those who sincerely submit themselves to God's way, and the wicked being those who reject God's way and word and will, substituting their own.

The righteous are planted, they are steady, they are dedicated, they are delighted, fruitful, prosperous, united with the rest of the righteous, watched over by God, and with no fear of judgement.

But the wicked, like chaff, have no root, no stability, no peace, no good relationships, no prosperity of the soul, and when judgement comes, they will tremble, unsteady and afraid, destined for shame and punishment.

How would you like to live?

If you are reading this, then odds are you are my brother or sister in Christ. If not, then repent to Jesus of your sin and receive His forgiveness and welcome into our Heavenly family!

But can we be God's Children and still struggle with this? Of course we can. Too many of us, too easily, and too often are slipping sliding through our walk with the Lord. Why? Because though we may not walk in the obvious ways of the wicked, perhaps we have also not planted ourselves where we ought to have planted ourselves, in the very Word of God, the expressed Will of God, with His people.

For many of God's Children, they are living a barren spiritual life, slipping and falling into hurt and barrenness and bitterness, while wondering why? But they do not pray or read God's Word with any consistency or sincerity.

Saved? Perhaps. Certainly possible.

Steady? Confident? Fruitful? Flourishing? Unafraid?

No.

The righteous are those who have humbly submitted their attitudes and actions to God by daily eating/reading His Word, so that they might better know and do His Will.

Are our lives so deeply planted in God's Word? In His Will? In the way He has called us to live and move and breath?

God's children stand. They are steady. In the gracious love of their Heavenly Father, they will stand forever.