Devotions and Coffee Grounds

So in the midst of my morning devotions, I managed to accidentally spill coffee on most of my devotional booklets, papers, and my Bible. As I was cleaning it all up and salvaging what I could, for some reason it reminded me of what a friend of ours had told us the other day: coffee grounds, spread lightly around the edges of rooms, keep ants away.

Now what do coffee grounds and ants have to do with me spilling my coffee all over my Bible and devotional books? The image of coffee grounds "seasoning" the home as a protective measure against "ant invaders" calls to mind our call to season our hearts and lives in the Word of God as a protective measure against a whole host of invaders, the chief one being the devil himself.

Now of course this is not easy. And sometimes we spill coffee all over ourselves and the Bible--but be seasoned with God's Word we must!

Weekly Devotions

Click on the title above to link to one suggestion for weekly devotions that takes into account the primacy of Sunday as the day that orients the whole week for us as Christians. The first part of the week (Monday-Wednesday) is spent praying the Scriptures from the preceding Sunday and the second half of the week (Thursday-Saturday) is spent praying the Scriptures for the coming Sunday.