Your Morning Coffee 08/29/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father make us wise enough to seek out those who are wise according to His ways. Father, help us to clearly see who is wise and who is not around us. Help us to know who is foolish, and in being foolish, destructive. May we deal carefully with fools. May we treasure and seek out the wise. In the name of Jesus, Father, by the Spirit, teach us to judge wisdom and foolishness by your standards. Not ours. May we be wise according to your will! Amen.

Your Morning Song: "Awesome God" by Rich Mullins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDnBnzAepXOE8&v=nBnzAepXOE8

Your Morning Scripture: Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,

but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

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The two words in this Proverb that stick out, at first, are wise and fools.

But the nuance, the depth is in two different words, "walks" and "companion."

You're not going to become wise by simply high fiving a wise person once a day. And just the same, if you say hello to a fool too often, you don't have to worry about suffering harm.

But to walk with the wise is a phrase that means so much more than casual acquaintance with wise people. You live with them. You know and are known deeply by them. You seek them out in a million different ways to tie their very world to yours until yours begins to look more and more like theirs.

Just the same, companionship, deep life living, with a fool is far too similar to saving a drowning person. As a lifeguard I was taught that a drowning person needs to be treated as dangerous. Because they are so caught up in not drowning that they will cling to you and try to climb you up out of the water if you are not careful when rescuing them.

This idea of being blind to the bigger picture, caught up in the moment to the detriment of everyone else, is very much the life of a fool.

Reach out to fools, carefully, and as the Spirit leads. But do not welcome them into the inner depths of your life. They will drown you in their ironically shallow, foolish selves.

Seek out those who are wise in the Lord. Those who pray deeply and often. Those who do not have a hidden agenda. Those who love well, sacrificially, with an eye ever on our Lord and Savior, Jesus.

And share in the depths of life together.

But be wise yourself, and mindful, when interacting with the foolish, the self-indulgent, the brash and mindlessly bold.

We too easily become like those we interact with most.

So, begin with God. And then pursue His people.