Here is another simple yet meaningful story for you...
God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Jesus said:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Just what the story (God's coffee) illustrated, what is more important:
the cup or the coffee?...is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
In reality, many of us really forgot this lesson from Jesus. I know it is really hard not to worry because we are living in a very fast paced life, many responsibilities that need to fill-in, we need to survive the tough economy, need to feed our kids,need to send them to school, need to help our love ones, need to help other people, need to fulfill our dreams and a lot more.
But we need to remind our selves that we need to trust God. He knows everything, He knows our needs and we need to realize that He really knows what is best for us! And surely He will provide for all our needs because He loves us so much!
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? This is very true right? So don't worry, because Jesus said so.
What shall we do then?
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Another scripture said in Psalm 46:10 " Be still and know that I am God".
Jesus loves you so much that's why He don't want you to spend your lifetime worrying. Let us enjoy life with Him. Let us focus on heavenly things and not on earthly or material things.
"Take delight in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart." - Psalms 37:4
and he will give you the desires of your heart." - Psalms 37:4
Jesus wants us to simplify our lives and for us to focus on the beauty of the true life.
Enjoy life with God and stop worrying!
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