Coffee, Tea, and a Right Relationship

Lessons I learned from 2020's coronavirus shutdown: 

God is only after one thing - a right relationship with Himself, and He does not care about our physical comforts.

Until we are rightly related to Him, God will pay ruthless havoc with every comfort and relationship we have.

How many of us have begun to realize our privilege of not doing things?  

The liberty to waive our rights is the great privilege of Christian sanctity. One of the meanest things is to say, “I don’t do certain things because it will damage me.” Paul’s argument is—“I don’t do certain things because it will damage someone else” (see 1 Corinthians 8:9–13). 

In the days before you knew God you did any number of things which God overlooked, but try and do them now, and if you persist you will realize what is written in Psalm 106:15—“And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.” 

“He gave them their request”—all restraint gone. The man who has known what God is like, and what His life is like, but still persists in going against it, will come to a time when God will fling him out to do as he chooses.

Beware of making punishment the mere result of sin, it arises from the presence of a personal God.

As long as we side with the thing that is going to be destroyed, we shall be destroyed with it.

Every individual has the power to turn the course of life into destruction or into perfection according to the way he chooses when God reveals the best way.

All sin is unpardonable; every sinner is pardonable.

If sin is graven with a pen of iron upon the human heart, it was also graven with an iron nail in our Lord's hands and feet.

The atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ does not mean that God forgives the sinner and leaves him in his sin; God forgives a man for being a sinner and puts him in the place where he need never be a sinner anymore.

- Adapted from Oswald Chambers Notes from Jeremiah