I have come to realize I can’t go a day without it. It’s 4 o’clock in the afternoon and while I haven’t touched it yet, I Can’t. Stop. Thinking. About. It.
Like, really can’t stop obsessing with how good it’d feel right now. It’s over on the kitchen counter staring at me menacingly. Calling me. Beckoning me to come partake. It knows I can’t function without it. It knows! It’s just sitting there…tempting me with the reality that the fog I’m in right now would go away almost instantly. With just one cup.
Yes, I’ve come to realize it’s time for a change. When I’ve become so reliant on something as small as a cup of coffee, I’ve become reliant on the wrong thing. And I’ve been reliant on the wrong thing. That’s not easy for me to admit, but there it is.
It’s the second Commandment, “You shall have no other gods before me” – Exodus 20:3, yet there it is staring me right in the face. Coffee has become my god. As I sat down to write this note, I honestly didn’t think I’ve put coffee before God. I haven’t, have I? Well, let’s see…
It’s the first thing I reach for in the morning. Before my Bible and before my time with God. Really, the two go together so well in the morning… a cop of coffee and the Word.
But the coffee…oh how the coffee gets me through it. Wait! It “gets me through it?” WOW! Yeah…it’s time for a change.
I’m thankful that my God is bigger than my coffee. Ephesians 6 tells us to put on the full armor of God. It’s time to demolish this stronghold in my life. With the Helmet of Salvation, I am claiming the mind of Christ as I thank Him that I am His child and praise Him for my eternal life. I’ve affixed the Breastplate of Righteousness, asking God to search my heart and reveal the wickedness hidden within it. I’ve confessed my sin and am claiming Christ’s righteousness to cover my sins. With the Shield of Faith, I am claiming the victory and advancing in faith to quench the fiery darts of the wicked (Mark 11:24).
I am claiming victory in this through Christ. My coffee is my god no more.
Love,
Dad
P.S. Ironic that immediately after posting this, I place a link to this note on the Decaf Dad page. God really is good all the time.