Your Morning Coffee 03/27/2026

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father expose our frail attempts at making ourselves happy. Father, we are like children playing in their father's clothes. It just doesn't fit. Only you can give us true happiness, true joy and delight. And you are not so cruel as to give us these things when we are not living according to your Will. Father, in the name of Jesus, by the Spirit, help us to know your purpose for our life, and embrace it. So that we might fully experience what it means to be your children. Amen!

Your Morning Song: "The Great Adventure" by Steven Curtis Chapman

Your Morning Scripture: Romans 8:28

And we know that in all things

God works for the good of those who love him,

who have been called according to His purpose.

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There is something very odd about our happiness.

If you pursue happiness for its own sake, you will not find it. If I make my life about trying to be happy, to be entertained, to avoid sadness, to satisfy my daily wants, I will not be happy. Perhaps a little bit here and there, but never enough. I will get just a taste, and then I will go looking for more.

But what if happiness itself is just the wonderful by-product of something else?

You may have heard it said before, "Jesus did not come to make you happy, He came to make you holy."

This is a helpful way understand what Paul means here in Romans 8 when he says, "God works for the good of those who love Him." What is this "good?" How should we understand this word?

God is at work in us and in our lives, to make us holy, more like Jesus. He cares more about who we are, than what we have. And so, our "good" is about our spiritual formation, the reordering of our inner self until our outward living pleases God, not us.

And the latter half of the verse affirms this. We do not call upon God to do what we want Him to do. God calls us to do what He wants us to do. It is really that simple.

And this is why so many true believers still struggle with a lack of contentment, still thirsty despite being filled by the Spirit. Burdened with a sense of dry, dissatisfying wilderness.

You can be saved, and still struggle with pursuing our own, lesser purposes. But you will be blind to the fulness of God's blessings in your life. And you will know only fleeting moments of earthly happiness.

What does God want? What happens if we try to make Him happy instead of ourselves?

It is very much akin to the Chronicles of Narnia. In a simple wardrobe there is a whole new world of magic and wonder.

Obey God down to the depths of your soul and out into the far reaches of your words and deeds, and you will discover a new world full of wonder and beauty, God's happiness.

He loves to share His happiness with His children. God's joy and delight when we choose right, will fill us up to overflowing.

What will we choose today? Will we please God? Or will we please ourselves?

The beauty of God giving us the freedom chase our own happiness is that He will never allow it to work. He is not a bad parent. He is not that cruel.