Your Morning Coffee 05/28/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father hold on to us today, no matter what. Father, please help us. We all need your help. We are desperately in need for you to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. Lead us. Guide us. Teach us. Direct us. Comfort us. Grow us. Hold us close to your side. And help us to cling to you with our worship and our obedience to your Will. In the powerful name of Jesus, by the Spirit, help us to please you.

Your Morning Song: "Joy of the Lord" by Rend Collective

Your Morning Scripture:

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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It isn't wrong to say, "when life get's hard, cling to God."

I had an atheist once ask me, "what if this world is heaven, right now?"

He was young. And just like myself when I was young, he was stupid in the way all of us have been. Those who have not hurt or suffered yet enough to know that something is wrong with this world. Everything.

I've comforted parents by praying over their dying children. I've sat with wives of suddenly dead husbands. I've listened to the bitterness of a young woman struck terribly and terminally ill. I live next to an interstate highway, and I know what those wrecks look like. I've sat with the very old, and listened them wrestle with the strangeness of their reflection in a mirror, and the fresh fact that they sold their home for a room they don't know.

This world is not heaven. It is hard. It hurts. It is full of sin and death, the beauty fleeting amidst the shadows of what we've all together done.

And in the midst of the pain and suffering of this life, it isn't wrong to say, "cling to God."

It isn't wrong. But there is something that is more right.

As a child of God, those who have professed and believed that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead, our grip on God is not what keeps us by His side.

Our love for God is a response to His. Our clinging to God is a response to His grip on us.

We rest in God, not because we cling to Him, but because He clings to us, His preciously, dearly loved children.

I'm sorry for what you're going through, or what you've been through, or what's coming. But the answer to all such things remains God's grip on you.

He holds you close. He speaks gently to you. He guides and directs you. He lifts you up and gives you more than you need. He walks with you. He carries you when you can't walk with Him. And if you sin again, you have and you will, He longs to forgive you.

Your grip on God is good. But it is His grip on you that keeps you there where you belong.

With Him. Forever. No matter what.

He loves you this way because He wants to. Not because He needs to you. And certainly not because you deserve it. We don't.

God will not let you go. You are His. You are His beloved child.

God's grip on you brings rest. No matter what.