When the Coffee Goes Cold #040
I could finally sit down after my precious and teething baby went down for a nap. I joyfully picked up my phone, opened the Bible app to start my morning devotionals, and grabbed my coffee ready to enjoy this now forbidden morning pick-me-up (my doctor told me I need to go to decaf and I told him I’d rather die). As I took my first sip, I annoyingly discovered the coffee had gone cold. I put it down next to my daughter’s bottle with a huff and I quickly turned to a Psalm of Lament, hoping to find in the pages of Scripture something that could relate to the annoyance I had that I now had to microwave my coffee.
A few days after the coffee went cold I started to prepare for a sermon I was preaching and the text hit differently:
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”
Could a cold cup of coffee serve as an object lesson of Scripture? Did God just use my coffee to remind me that something as mundane as my coffee could teach me a valuable lesson about humility?
I thought about this on and off over the last week then yesterday I had my daughter in my lap sleeping after another rough morning of teething pain (she has we believe 5 teeth coming in now - geesh!). I grabbed my coffee, took a sip, and it was lukewarm. I put it down next to my daughter’s bottle and smiled:
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,”.
Discipleship from a cold and lukewarm cup of coffee.
Christ truly does play in 10,000 places.