Today’s Coffee Shop Experience

With the lack of business and need to make lattes, the lone barista cleans counters and widows a second time to keep busy.

Seat warmers fill the room zoned into their laptops, enjoying the smell of coffee and music, I assume.

My sense to people watch came to an end when a song came on by, Landon Pigg:

“I think that possibly
Maybe I'm falling for you
Yes
There's a chance that I've fallen quite hard over you”

And,well… forget the rest of the song… it hit me, I think I have fallen for Jesus again! I'm sure the song was reffering to that earthy boy likes girl kind of love. But, instead of that horizontal love, this song got me thinking about that wonderful vertical love. His love for me is amazing that although I was once dead in my trespasses, by his great love and rich mercy He got off of his throne in heaven to come down to earth; a place full of tears and pain, to endure temptation, fulfill God’s Law, which I could not fulfill, and after all of that He died for me. He did all of that so that I can be blessed, pure, and see God! Wow. Eternal life with God! …Not because of something I did, but because of His grace and my faith! When I mess up again, and again, and again, and again, and again, times ten to the tenth power, He still forgives me. How humbling, it makes me want to serve Him, because He does so much for me. As for good works, they are an outpour of that grace and faith, He doesn’t need my good works to be made glorious, because He already is, but He still chose to open my eyes and see that I need Him. I have fallen for Him again. I am so glad I get to travel this summer, fully devoted, and free from distraction! Such a blessing from the Lord!

"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5