Your Morning Coffee 05/29/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father remind us of His generosity to us, in giving us His Son, and filling us with the Spirit. We live and move and breathe in the unseen fullness of your generosity Father! In the name of Jesus, by the Spirit who guides us, make us generous for your glory God! Amen.

Your Morning Song: "I Stand Amazed in the Presence" by Reawaken Hymns

Your Morning Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that though He was rich,

yet for your sake He became poor,

so that you by His poverty might become rich.

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My daughter loves to give our food away. And it drives me nuts. Whenever the neighborhood kids come over she just can't help it. She wants to give them food, snacks, desserts, anything. If we let her, she'd drag our fridge outside, and empty it out.

Everyone has already had lunch. A snack here and there is fine, but not all of our food. If it was up to me, she'd stop doing this completely. I've always felt this way. That dad annoyance that says, "cut it out and just go play."

But there's something else happening here.

How important is our generosity, as children of God?

Our very identity, as sinners saved by grace, is founded on the generosity of God, who sent His Son to give us what we could not give ourselves, salvation.

Our sin has made us poor in life unto death. Our savior, becoming sin for us, dying for us, has made us rich in life both now and forever.

And so the Good News of Jesus is one founded on and grounded in generosity. Our small generosities and hospitalities that we are capable of, will work together with God's generosity of the Gospel.

This doesn't mean that my daughter can give away all of our food. She would if she could. But it does mean that I will not stomp out her generosity as foolishness. I will not snuff our her desire to give with my annoyance.

But, in wisdom, perhaps we will become known as the house that is generous, the family that is welcoming and gentle. and by our willingness to give up small things, the children that come over to play with our kids will someday know and see the truth of God's willingness to give up His son for them.

What does an oatmeal cream pie have to do with sharing Jesus? Maybe more than dads think.