Coffee With The Lord

After finishing John 15:1-17 today I was in awe! Can you imagine someone gifting you Glacier National Park, or Yellowstone National Park, or even the Bob Marshall (you have to understand… I’m a Montana native)… and then taking a LIFETIME to explore, discover, and enjoy and appreciate the beauty and grandeur there! Some passages of Scripture are like that! When I completed reading John 15:1-17 I felt a bit like that… Just so much profound, rich and wonderful!!!

All I’m going to do today in “Coffee with the Lord” is highlight a few key “vistas of wonder” in the passage and then encourage you to read and reflect on the passage for yourself and allow the Lord to enlighten and enrich one (or perhaps two) of them to you… Hey, there’s enough incredible power, profundity, and beauty in this passage TO LAST A LIFETIME… (Believe me, it’s more than just a “sermon or teaching series”)! Here you go…

“I am the true Vine – you are the branches!” … “Abide in me, and I in you!”

“Bear fruit!” … You cannot unless you abide in Me! “Apart from Me you can do nothing!”

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, aske whatever you wish, and it will be done for you!”

“By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples!”

“Abide in My love!” (If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love!)

“These things I have spoken to you that MY JOY may be in you, and that YOUR JOY may be full!”

“No longer do I call you servants… but I have called you friends!”

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give it to you!”

… And believe me, I’ve only scratched the surface! A “Spiritual lifetime” of exploration and application! Hey this isn’t going to be boring! Instead, incredibly fulfilling and fruitful!

10/4/2024 – Necessary Food Bible Reading Plan:  2 Kings 3:1-27; Proverbs 17:11-19; Joel 3:17-21; John 14:15-31; Hebrews 6:1-8

Obedience brings and activates a WONDERFUL PRESENCE in our lives… “If you love me, you will keep my commandments!  And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper [the Holy Spirit – the Divine “Helper”] to be with you forever – even the Spirit of truth… He dwells with you and will be in you!  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you!” (From John 14:15-18 ESV)

10/3/2024 – Necessary Food Bible Reading Plan for today:  2 Kings 2:1-15; Proverbs 17:1-10; Joel 3:1-16; John 14:1-14; Hebrews 5:11-14

I’m an ol’ prof… I know the frustration of having a student sitting right there in class, lively discussion, important principles, thinking perhaps they’re “getting it” – but inattentive … And then follow up with a review question, and have that “pre-occupied” student get nothing but a blank look on their face (even asking, “could you repeat the question?” … Maddening, if you’re committed to learning – students “getting it!

That’s how God must feel sometimes!

I read about it this morning during my time of “Coffee with the Lord”…

“You have become dull of hearing!  Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God [God’s word – the key principles of God’s word].  You need milk, not solid food!  Everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness… But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” (from Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV)

Oh may we “tune in” and “pay attention” to what God is saying to us through His word!  In the words of my ol’ German Dad… “Son, pay attention!  I’m not talking to hear my head roar!”