TRUE LIGHT 09/11/2014
YOU'RE GOD'S COFFEE
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters." - Audrey Hepburn
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When they'd all had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups, and then you began eyeing each other's cups." "Now consider this," he continued. "Life is the coffee. The jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
Many times we get so engrossed in the "cup" we've chosen in life and almost completely lose focus of the coffee. We forget that without life (the coffee), there would be no need for the cup(Jobs, business etc) in the first place. We concern ourselves with concerns God hasn't concerned us with, and hence fall into trouble and heartbreaks that we have no business falling into.
Beloved, we have to understand that God brews the coffee, not the cups, learn to enjoy your coffee!"The happiest people don't have the best of everything...and having the best of everything doesn't make the happiest people. They just make the best of everything they have." Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly...and leave the rest to God
THE TRUE LIGHT: Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Let us pray: Father, help me to concentrate on the important things in life that you've blessed me with in Jesus.
YOU'RE GOD'S COFFEE
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters." - Audrey Hepburn
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When they'd all had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups, and then you began eyeing each other's cups." "Now consider this," he continued. "Life is the coffee. The jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
Many times we get so engrossed in the "cup" we've chosen in life and almost completely lose focus of the coffee. We forget that without life (the coffee), there would be no need for the cup(Jobs, business etc) in the first place. We concern ourselves with concerns God hasn't concerned us with, and hence fall into trouble and heartbreaks that we have no business falling into.
Beloved, we have to understand that God brews the coffee, not the cups, learn to enjoy your coffee!"The happiest people don't have the best of everything...and having the best of everything doesn't make the happiest people. They just make the best of everything they have." Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly...and leave the rest to God
THE TRUE LIGHT: Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Let us pray: Father, help me to concentrate on the important things in life that you've blessed me with in Jesus.
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