To taste His freedom is to require less of me, metaphorically ~AR

Monday Message

We’ve all heard the sayings of the more you earn, the more you’ll spend, the
more you have, the more you want…
Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench
Classes United. Today’s poem is a great analogy, using coffee and the things
we crave in life.

My small cup of coffee was perfect
     With a splash of oil
          Filled to the brim
               So full I could barely lift it up

But instead of sipping it slowly
Barely lifting it
Because it might spill over
​
          What did I do?
I got a bigger cup

To add on more of what I wanted
A scoop of collagen
With more caramel cream
Oh and more cinnamon on top please

          and now?
               Now it tastes watered down
Too much in the cup
To even taste the original coffee

Metaphorically that’s me .

and if you get quiet and be honest

          It’s probably you too…

Always wanting more
         To do more
               To be more
                    To have all the extras that I think will make me
feel better

and it’s not until you realize
That really you don’t

     and truly you won’t
          Get to taste His freedom
     Until you finally see
     That all you’ll ever need
     Is a splash of His oil

          Nothing more
               and Nothing Less

Because that coffee
That coffee’s the best…

“Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may be found [claiming Him by
necessity and by right]; call upon Him while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and
let him return to the Lord, and He will have love, pity, and mercy for him, and
to our God, for He will multiply to him His abundant pardon.
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the
Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your
ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there
again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may
give seed to the Sower and bread to the eater,
So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void
[without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please
and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out [from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the
homeland] with joy and be led forth [by your Leader, the Lord Himself, and
His word] with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you
into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall
come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name of renown, for an
everlasting sign [of jubilant exaltation] and memorial [to His praise], which shall not
be cut off.” - Isaiah 55:6-13