Morning Coffee
As I am walking our dog and drinking my coffee trying to cool myself down, like my coffee, listening to a new bible study on beginning again. Taking in bits and pieces as I struggle to fully listen just hoping for something new because these are things I’ve heard hundreds of times. I still think and try to imagine starting every day as it is new.
Reveal: Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV): “Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
Every event, incident, confrontation and out come that plays out, distracting and pulling me away. Just like our puppy on this walk trying to pull me in all directions, usually the opposite of where I’m trying to lead us I can’t help but think of how I am like our puppy with my Heavenly Father.
Through all this I keep having my coffee spill over the edge of my mug, oddly enough it’s my “Trophy Husband” mug from XO Marriage, which I feel dare from in this moment. Reflecting and noticing sometimes when my mug was full and there was a big pull it would spill a little rather than a lot. Sometimes when full there would be a small pull that would spill more and even as the coffee got lower and lower it would still spill a lot in some cases even though it was not full, my mug though almost empty would still pour out.
Revise: God’s grace is so great that he chooses in our repentance to remember our sins no more, every morning, every moment. We are new in Him.
Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
God in that moment was getting me to connect dots like only he does. I got to comparing life to this experience as one of my biggest struggles is controlling my emotions, largely anger and what brought about the anger and how I manage it. That my cup, (responses/reactions) will spill, whether I am full of the Spirit and I am perfectly emotionally prepared to manage my life and situation, or it’s my last drop and am as low as low can be and about to break. It is up to me, (us) whether what spills is hot & hurtful because it is immediate and easy; or cooler, gentler & loving, which takes time and is harder to do. Either way we have the opportunity in all situations to continue to manage our spilling and how it spills into others.
Proverbs 15:1 “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Revive: Just know we all spill and we all spilled every way possible. But through grace and time I hope that I am able to enjoy a cold almost empty cup of coffee every day knowing it might produce warmness for those around me and fill them up. So from this moment on I would like to challenge myself and you to turn spilling into pouring. To spill is accidental as to pouring is intentional and we all can be more intentional with our words and interactions with one another. So that when we pour out we do so in a way that will produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Proverbs 18:20-21 “From the fruit of their mouth a person's stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied. The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Proverbs 17:27 “The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.”
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