Your Morning Coffee 04/09/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father seek us out when we are crushed by sorrow and grief. Father, when we are too weary to think of tomorrow, find us! Sustain us! Hold us as we do not know what to do but seek you. Help us to seek you in the darkest and most difficult times of life. May we seek you always, but especially so when it is all too much for us. Father, it is never too much for you. In the powerful name of Jesus, thank you for loving us in a way that we can never deserve, always and forever. Amen.

Your Morning Song: "It Is Well With My Soul" by Reawaken Hymns

Your Morning Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him,

and he will make straight your paths.

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What should we do when life has been so hard that our bones feel brittle, our breath short, our heart weak, our eyes straining, and our tongues without taste?

I have been there before. Several times. And it was very difficult to see beyond that moment in life, that pain and heartache and weariness.

And so I did the only thing I could do when I had nothing left within me. I trusted God. I chose not to dwell on my own thoughts, but instead chased after God's thoughts, in the company of other believers.

This is something of an emergency devotional, for the crushed and the broken-hearted. Perhaps you don't need it right now. You will. Perhaps you have someone in your life that needs it. You do.

Life itself, in any form, no matter how good, will always be too much for us.

How much more so when life is broken by tragedy, embittered by disappointment, or stolen by death?

Take all of who you are, your whole heart and mind and anything else you can gather together within you, and ENTRUST it all to God. Like waves washing in and out against a beach, we must continue to come back to God, in trust, in faith, at all times. But especially when life is at its worst.

Don't hold anything back from God, any thought, any feeling, any sorrow, any pain. Give it all to Him and let Him prove Himself to you. That He, above all others and above all else, can be trusted!

Don't deny how you feel and what you're struggling with, but don't keep them to yourself. Entrust them to Him again and again.

And as you suffer and struggle and limp from moment to moment, crawl through each day to each day, show your trust in Him by doing what He says to do.

God gives comfort and rest and peace to His children who are hurting and still doing their best to obey Him.

Acknowledging God in all things is not an an internal intellectual assent (silent amens), but rather to acknowledge God is to act, to do, to live out.

Obedience to God in the midst of suffering brings peace because as we seek to obey God's Word and Will, we get Him, we get closer to Him. And He heals us and lifts us up in a way we could not do for ourselves.

Hurting and weary? Entrust it all to Him. Do not trust your own thoughts and feelings, but pursue His. And by actions, make real your faith by doing and living as God has commanded us to.

We should always be living like this, but there is something special and sweet and divine when we respond to the worst moments of life in this way.

And if we respond this way, how will God respond to us?

He will make straight your paths.

Peace for bitterness. Grace for grief. Forgiveness for repentance. Comfort for sorrow. And rest for the weary.

What child, when hurt and afraid and sad, does not run to their father? Perhaps they might not, if they do not think that their father loves them.

Child. What do you think? Does your Father love you?