Day 146 – All I need is a little bit of coffee and a whole lot of Jesus.
Today’s Reading: Psalm 41 – 43
“As the deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.” Psalm 42:1.
Everyone has some type of morning ritual. My desire is to be early to bed and early to rise because I’m so excited about getting to my new day.
Why?
Partly because I’m so thankful His mercies are new every morning, but mostly because my morning starts off with a hot cup of coffee, a nice quiet space, my Bible, and long conversations with God. I honestly enjoy nothing more and if I had it my way, I’d do this all day…watch our retirement, I’m getting wild!
Occasionally I’ll be longing so much for more time with God that I’ve been caught under my desk praying, wondering off for a prayer around the field, or jumping into my car just to be alone and see what God has to say.
I guess I had spent enough time during my teen years going in the opposite direction of God that when He caught ahold of me, I’ve never been quite able to get enough.
In the Summer of 1999, I needed God so badly that I was ready for Him to just take me home to Eternity, but He had other plans.
“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” Psalm 42:2.
The Lord filled my hunger and quenched my thirst on a road in Gainesville, Florida. I was like the woman at the well and he promised me living water.
John 4:13-14 “Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
My days are not pretty if I don’t have my time with Jesus. It’s like a marathon runner with no water or electrolytes after the run, they are mentally and physically exhausted and their body is all tight and their head pounding. They long for hydration and I long for Jesus.
Everyone is born with a hole in their heart just the size of Jesus, and until you are willing to have Faith in Him you will thirst, but when you accept Him you will thirst no more and just long for his presence everyday.
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