Sane, Simple, Sacred: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Yesterday, I realized that I don't "wake up and smell the coffee"!

Instead, I'm convinced that I smell the coffee and wake up!

Yes, indeed.

My husband makes the coffee, frequently rising a few minutes before me.

And then it happens.

I smell the coffee and wake up.

...our simple, unimpressive coffee corner

I think this observation from everyday life explains something

about coming to faith in Jesus Christ for personal salvation and eternal life
AND faith for "overcoming" daily!

The Apostle Paul wrote about it THIS way in Romans 10:14:

But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him?

And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him?

And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

Faith comes by hearing...

and hearing by the Word of God.

First the coffee; then the PHYSICAL wake-up.

First the Word; then the SPIRITUAL wake-up.

How is it with YOU?

Do you wake up and smell the coffee or

smell the coffee and wake up?

9 comments:

elaineolsen@live.comDecember 17, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Smell the coffee first . . . funny, sometimes this annoys me. I don't always take to my awakening. Now there's something to ponder going forward with my day.

peace~elaine
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Breathing In GraceDecember 17, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Great food for thought, Ms. Rebecca.....or coffee for thought!!! ;-)
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JackieDecember 17, 2012 at 11:15 AM
I prepared hot chocolate for hubby this morning...and scrambled eggs with rice poured into a heart-shaped mold. A surprise breakfast for him; he usually makes the coffee, but I got a heat start on him this morning.
Thanks for the wake-up reminder. It got me motivated.
Hugs,
Jackie
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SandyDecember 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM
I am a tea drinker, but not until mid-morning, so it's my little dachshund that wakes me up by licking my nose! That'll get you goin'!
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Parfum pas cherDecember 17, 2012 at 10:59 PM
Love you post.
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Lori ZehrDecember 19, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Interesting analogies, but I'm not a coffee drinker and have no coffee drinkers in the immediate family! Sorry! Blessings to you this Christmas season!
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MoDecember 28, 2012 at 9:11 PM
I wake up and make the coffee. It's not the BEST part of waking up though......having a quiet morning and doing as I should, is the best part. Right now I'm reading 'Free Grace Broadcaster' and THEN SINGS MY SOUL by Robert J. Morgan....possibly the best book I've ever read about hymns and their writers!.....and Romans 12.
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and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contentment makes poor men rich.

-Benjamin Franklin

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~~"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."~~Edmund Burke

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FIVE CERTAINTIES
WITH WHICH TO
START YOUR DAY

God holds you. Each day he carries us in his arms. Psalm 68:19 NLT
God sustains you. THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. Psalm 23:1 AMP
God covers you. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust. Psalm 91:4 AMP
God pours His love upon you. Through each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me. Psalm 42:8 NLT
God will not fail you. The unfailing love of the Lord never ends! Lamentations 3:22 NLT

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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

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