I have an unusual coffee pot.

Hello Friends at Rise Up Lubbock,

I have an unusual coffee pot. I mean it makes great coffee but the controls are digital and sometimes I think that I’ve set it but because you have to push the ‘on’ button twice to start the coffee brewing… It doesn’t make coffee when I think it will. Obviously, the real problem is that I think I have turned it on but I didn’t. 

So many times, that is how things are in my life too. I think I am in control of my situations only to turn around and find that what I did didn’t really get the right things going at all. Sometimes these situations are very important... but, I had my chance to get it right and I blew it! At this point most of us would give into the feeling of failure and plunge into depression. Funny thing about depression is that it’s all about the ‘me’ syndrome. For example: I’ve let people down, I’ve made a mess of my life, and I’m an idiot. Don’t get me wrong here I understand that depression is very serious. I’m saying these things as I look at life from my viewpoint because I’ve been there. I’ve said those very words out loud. I had to learn to give my ‘me’ problems over to God. I forgot that it is not a ‘me’ life it is an ‘us’ life… Me and God walking through this life together.  Yes, that is when I turn to God. God never will fail, He will never, never leave you alone in any situation. However it is at those critical times that I need to reassure myself that the administration of creation has not changed… God is still in control.  Always remember when it seems we have no control in our lives, it is then when we, through Christ, gain the most control over our lives. 

Oh, we really do get off the subject of coffee from time to time, but back to my original point, I think I need a new coffee pot. 

Dan-Dwayne