Your Morning Coffee 09/16/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father help us to better understand what to do when our bones ache and our hearts shake with weariness. Father, call us close to your side. Jesus free us from our coping and, by the Spirit, offer to us the comfort found only in God and His family. May we honor you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, by not trying to numb ourselves to the pain and struggles in this life. Call us close to you, God, so that we may find rest for our weary souls. And that your gifts to us would never take your place, but would take their place, as small, sweet joys that come from you. But are not you. Father, help us, in the name of Jesus, to never raise gift above you the Giver who so loves us! Amen.

Your Morning Song: "I'm So Blessed" by CAIN

Your Morning Scripture: Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord,

and he will sustain you;

he will never permit

the righteous to be moved.

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Let's pretend for a moment, that something really difficult has just happened. Your body is tired, your heart is weary, and your schedule? Yeah, that's still full. The to-do list never stops, and you can't seem to get enough sleep. You eat, but don't have it in you to think too hard about the taste.

There's a sweet spot, right after the doings of the day end, and you've got a little bit of time before bed to do... something. Anything.

What do you do?

Do we numb ourselves? Or do we draw near to God and each other?

Do we chase food, mindless shows, alcohol, candy, anything to distract us from our own tired bodies and weary hearts?

I get it. It's hard not to cope. And to a certain degree, small pleasures used in small, sweet ways, are a part of God's gift to us. Our favorite dessert, our favorite show, a candy we used to share with our grandparent, these kinds of these are all wonderful, in a vacuum.

But we must not use small, sweet things, gifts to numb ourselves to our weariness and bitterness. That is too similar to putting a band-aid over a gaping a wound. And then acting shocked when the bleeding won't stop.

This life, this world, these bodies, are all broken unto death in a million different ways. And though the gaping wound in our very souls, that we made, has been dealt with on the cross, by Jesus, we still ache now as we wait now, for the completion of our salvation. The day when all things, including us will be made new.

Don't run to coping when life gets hard. Run to the cross. Run to our sweet Savior Jesus. Pray. Sing or listen to a song made for the Lord. Call a fellow believer. Read your Bible.

And let's be very clear, I'm not saying to do this in place of the smaller, sweet gifts of taste and entertainment and what my wife and I call "unplugging" our minds at the end of the day.

But let's misuse these things to do a job that only God can do. Only God can bring peace and stillness. Only in God will we find true rest. Only in Jesus can we be truly content.

So put first things first, and draw near to God, in the name of Jesus, by the Spirit, for the glory of the Father. And there, in the presence of God, you will find true rest for your body and true peace for your soul.

And then have something sweet and watch the game.