Your Morning Coffee 08/26/2025
- Colby Anderson
- Aug 26, 2025
- 4 min read
Good morning!
Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father gently reach out to the wandering eyes of our hearts. Father, help us not to look so longingly at what someone else has, at who they are, and how they look. Jesus, help us to measure ourselves according to your character. Help us to become ever more like you in our thinkings and sayings and doings. Holy Spirit, guard and guide our hearts against jealousy and comparison. Thank you, God, for how you love us. Amen!
Your Morning Song: "Good Day" by Forrest Frank
Your Morning Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30 -- The Parable of the Bags of Gold
14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. 17 So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. 18 But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “After a long time, the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.’
21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
22 “The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’
23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So, you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would have received it back with interest.
28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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Good morning brother, sister. Have you ever compared yourself to another, brother, sister?
I have. It isn't something I struggle with daily, but sometimes it definitely hits hard. Whether time, talent, or treasure, it hurts when you look at what they have, at who they are, and measure.
Must be nice. If only I had... then I would... ...what?
You've probably heard it said that comparison is the thief of joy. Like kids on Christmas looking each other's gifts, sour thought in their hears, "I wish I had that toy."
Why do we do that? We all do, in some way shape or form. It's the sick wickedness of our desperate hearts (Jeremiah 17:9)
How does the master judge His servants Jesus's parable from Matthew 25. Does He judge them based on what they got to begin with? Absolutely not.
He judges them based on what they did with what they were given.
What are you doing with what you've been given by God? Nobody else has your exact Time, Talent, and Treasure. And yet we waste what we've been given, when we measure.
For so many of us, God likes us more than we like ourselves. How we look, what we like, what we're good at, the stuff we have. We're too focused on who we're not, on what we don't have, that we cry out in hunger for blessing, while adrift in a sea of blessing.
Who are you? What do you have? What can you do?
This is your cease and desist. Stop measuring yourself, time, talent, and treasure, against others. And rejoice where you are, because God is near to you! Rejoice, rejoice, and rest in Him, and He will make clear to you, what to do, with who you are and what you've got.
Leverage your self and your stuff to tell others about Jesus!
Live content in the joy of the Lord!
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