Monday, September 14, 2009

"Jesus & coffee" OR "Coffee & jesus"


BEEP, BEEP, BEEP...we all have heard that noise an hour before we actually want to get out of bed. Mine is actually "more than a feeling" by Boston! but still its that dreaded alarm clock. If your like me, you set the coffee pot to go off 10 minutes before your alarm so the house is filled with that ever-so wonderful aroma of the most wonderful bean in the world! In such an instant your day is determined, today do i long for that first cup of Sumatra and hope the rest of the day falls into place? Or today do i "Mathew 6:33 seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." and know in my heart that "24 This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
In our modern society were the world never stops turning with our "Crackberry's", "Twitter" and the "Energizer Bunny". We get so caught up in how am I going to get everything done, be every where and please every one. We try so hard to do it on our own and forget the one thing. To "SEEK FIRST the kingdom of GOD" When we think about that first cup of coffee in the morning and put Christ on the back burner what are we really doing? We are enabling him to do his promise. It doesnt say seek all these things and all these things will be added unto you! NO! it says "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." I am not saying to not have that cup of coffee in the morning cause sometimes if i dont have my cup of BLACK goodness i am ready to go rounds with someone. But prioritize your life to set yourself up for success.
God has given you the desires in your life, he has given me a love for coffee(as well as the rest of my church) and he wants us to enjoy those pleasures, but the second we rise in the morning and our focus has shifting from God to self-pleasure we have picked up an idol in our life "Exodus 4: 4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea." You start cracking into the "TOP TEN" then you are really screwing yourself.
If you want to start seeing a change in your life, in your family and in your generation, we need to start with the basics. JESUS. Thats it, everything else will fall into place.

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