Chapter 2: Coffee and The King

I have been brain storming for hours of how to make this interesting and what i was going to talk about, but i have truly failed haha. To all of you who love a great piece of literature... See you later! Coffee is something I have grown a liking for since i came to college. Test keep us young folks up in the wee hours of the night, and for the old fellers heck they just need it to survive, i guess. Need that extra boost in their lives. Who knows? Coffee is so hot. I mean seriously. Have you ever just tried to take a sip and felt like you stuck your tongue on the stove? I have. I have also gotten so distracted that my coffee has sat for so long... you would have thought i ordered a frappuccino. I want to suggest that when we are excited to get into Gods word that our relationship with Him becomes on fire like that cup of freshly poured coffee. This excitement is nothing we can conjure up with will power on our own, but instead its excitement from the Spirit of God. Have you ever woke up just wanting to talk to God? Have you ever read a verse in the Bible, and you were like that makes complete sense now? Have you ever been able to love that person you just dont really care for? Maybe that is the Spirit of God. Isn't that exciting for us? Now, I am not a biblical scholar. I am so far from that. Me saying i am a "WIZ" at the Bible would be like my 4 year old nephew telling you "I am master at Calculus." Yeah right. So what i am saying may or may not be valid. I am trying to pitch that when we smother that excitement we have been freely given with things of this world... (busyness, schedules, relationships, and so much more)... that our relationship with God suffers, and it becomes like that cold coffee. Just boring. I am not in anyway saying that God has changed or has left any of us when we face that problem. I am simply trying to throw out a thought that maybe we are smothering ourselves with too much of the world

and not letting God breathe in us through His Word. Good thing He is in control of everything. Right? Because if the King

of every living thing is in complete control our relationship with Him is in his hands. I mean ultimately our relationship with Him is completely for His Glory alone. So i wonder why sometimes we think we get to" wear the pants." Heck i think that sometimes, but it is just a lie from the enemy (He is definitely for another chapter because there is no true warmth he is stirring up in me.) You know, i really love abandoned homes. Random, i know. Come back to see why i think they are more than a site to see. But back to this coffee... lately i have been going to meet Jesus at different coffee places in Oxford. It has been so exciting for me to do. Just getting to know more about who I am falling in love with. I was at square books drinking a "dollar coffee" and I read this verse and loved it... Philippians 3:7-11... Check it out! I am so sorry this has been so jumpy and may not have made any since to you haha. But this is what i wanted to share and until next time I'll be chilling with Coffee and The King.

Nate