top of page

Your Morning Coffee 10/18/2024

Writer's picture: Colby AndersonColby Anderson


Good morning!


Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father strike our hearts with stillness, and our minds to cease such desperate grasping. Father, you are in control. We are not. We grow so tired and weary and our hearts are so full of quit. But you are not tired. You are not weary. And you will never leave us or forsake us. Take my weariness Father. Call me back from the precipice of false control that I throw myself from atop of every day, crashing from morning into night with a desperate longing to take some small part of your throne. My sleep is restless and I awake to aching. Rebuke me Father. Still my heart. Stop my grasping, racing mind. And open my eyes to how you actually, really, truly feel about me. You saved me. You show me grace and mercy forever afresh and new. You call me child and whisper with something better than a smile, "Call me Father, for I am yours and you are mine." In the powerful name of Jesus, filled to overflowing by the Spirit, please help us to be still, to stop, and to wait on you. Amen.


Your Morning Song: "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" by Reawaken Hymns


Your Morning Scripture: Isaiah 40:28-31


Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;

his understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the faint,

and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Even youths shall faint and be weary,

and young men shall fall exhausted;

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings like eagles;

they shall run and not be weary;

they shall walk and not faint.

...


How does God renew our strength? How does He cause us to have when our hearts and minds and bodies have not?


Does He make our coffee stronger? Does He make our breakfast more nourishing? Does our sleep suddenly become rest-full instead of restless?


The easy answer is no. But I do believe that God can and does interact powerfully in our physical lives as He wills. But it is not a cheap formula, not a divine ATM that we can control. No.


It starts in the garden of our thought-life. It rises up from within the depths of our well-spring hearts.


God is here. God is near. God cares more than we do and is doing more for us than we are. Wait on Him.


Our minds brighten and our hearts lighten as we wait on Him.


Wait. Wait? What does that mean? How do I wait on God?


As again, we so often turn first to the physical instead of beginning within. Waiting on God is not ceasing to act and speak and live our every day lives. No. Waiting on God means to stop trying to be God in your hearts and minds. Do not let your feelings determine your choices. Do not dwell in your thoughts on the things you cannot control, that belong wholly to God.


Still your heart by trusting God. Stop your mind from grasping by trusting God. Guard your heart and tend carefully to your mind. Still and stop, and wait.


He will rule over our minds as they brighten and our hearts, as they lighten, when we wait on Him. We will have real peace. We will have renewed strength of spirit. We will have real rest that cannot be contained merely within us.


And what happens there, in your heart and mind, will pour out into your physical body, your habits, your every day living.


God may divinely intervene in your physical life. He has, He does, He will. But still, that is not the normal way He chooses for us. Instead He calls us to begin within. He calls out, "Still your hearts and stop your grasping minds! Wait on me. Trust in me. Rest in me. I am in control. I will give you rest within that will work its way gloriously out."


Our hearts and minds, stilled and stopped,

will overflow out into the rest of us.

And waiting, trusting, and resting we

will look ever so odd amidst the weary world

and they will wonder

how despair has not got the best of us.


God is at work within you.

Because He loves you.

Wait.


15 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

Comments


(515) 523-1570

©2022 Stuart First Congregational Church. 
224 N Division St, Stuart, IA 50250

bottom of page