Your Morning Coffee 05/13/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father, by the Spirit, in the name of Jesus, guide our hearts away from self-seeking. Father, lead us into evermore depths of your good Will. Reveal to us the riches of your glorious purpose, to know and be known by you in close relationship. Inspire us to thankfulness and gratefulness as we seek you above all else. And help us, in the powerful name of Jesus, to encourage each other to seek you. Amen.

Your Morning Song: "Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing" by Reawaken Hymns

Your Morning Scripture: Psalm 138:8

The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me;

your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.

Do not forsake the work of your hands.

...

There's an odd clash

within me and you.

Like a car crash,

sudden, unexpected,

within me, and within you.

Our hearts ache for satisfaction.

"Please yourself!" cries the world around us.

Our hearts grasp at everything

but gain no traction.

"Please yourself!" an empty cry,

echoing around us.

As humans we were made to long for purpose and fulfillment, for satisfaction and pleasure. That was all before sin, not after. God made us this way, to long, to seek, to pursue and to enjoy. And then sin...

Our soul-sick hearts twist our longing for purpose and fulfillment and satisfaction away from what they were made for, and towards the world around us.

We were not made to seek satisfaction in the world. We were not made to please ourselves.

We were made by God, for God. We did not make ourselves. Our appetites and desires must not be our gods. Our purpose in life is to please God and do what He says is best (it always is).

There are two ways you could read what I just wrote. That I am trying to be persuasive, and by hopefully clever wording and poetry I will sway you to MY way of thinking. And then I will feel very good about myself. This feels ugly. Like too many people in too small of a room all professing, "no, this is fine."

Or

This is our reality. We were not made for any other purpose but God's purpose. And no real, lasting satisfaction can be found anywhere else in all of creation.

The more we seek God's Will for our lives as laid out in the Bible and revealed to us by the Spirit, the more deeply we will be satisfied down to the very depths of our hearts, the core of who we really are.

We are most satisfied in life when we are most intentional in pursuing what God wants over what we want.

This is enough to wrestle with. This is a beautiful enough promise. That as the work of God's hands (you), you will find true peace and contentment in living as He teaches and guides.

And then something very strange and wonderful will happen. As you seek God and His ways as your ultimate purpose in life, you find satisfaction in everything else as well.

And to those who do not seek God, they will wonder how you can find more satisfaction and pleasure in the smallest things, while they are ultimately satisfied with nothing in this world.