Your Morning Coffee 10/21/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father help us to be mindful of how we work, how we strive in life in what we do. Why, Father, do we do what we do? What is the set of our heart as we live our everyday work lives? Help us to work for you, for your Son, for the Spirit, and to do so with joy! You will never leave us or forsake us. You so love us. Help us to respond with a cheerful heart that hopes in you with the work of our hands. Thank you, Father. By the Spirit, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.

Your Morning Song: "No Fear" by Jon Reddick & We the Kingdom

Your Morning Scripture: Colossians 3:23-24

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

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If we took our reasons for doing something, let's say our reasons for working at our job, and made a pile of them, how long would the pile last?

As things became difficult, conditions and coworkers, bosses, late nights, early mornings, bad backs, the pile would shrink. Our reasons would begin to fade away, fewer and fewer. And then one day, there would be the question that many of us have asked ourselves when the going got tough.

Why am I doing this?

If all other reasons are now faded and gone, for the Believer, one ought to always remain. We work for the Lord, and not for humans.

Claim Christ, please, but don't let your work ethic betray your claim. And make a mockery of Jesus.

Whatever you do, do for Jesus. He is with us, always. And this is certainly a comfort, but for the Believer may it also be a conviction. Would you be eager for Jesus to see how you work? Would you want Jesus to know how you behave, on the clock, when no one but He is watching?

Jesus sees. Jesus knows. Jesus watches us closely.

And this should certainly motivate us to do our best. But Jesus is not a Savior and Lord to sit on the sidelines of our lives. He wades into the difficult and the exhausting and helps us. Jesus Himself didn't start His earthly ministry until He was about thirty. He worked. He understands how hard it can be. And brings us comfort and conviction to do our best for Him.

For He has and always will do His best for us.

May our work be done

with joy and delight,

for our Savior is watching and with us.

To the very end of the age.