A Favorite Coffee Stop

Today, the Wright Implement store in Shepherdsville needed help, so my travels took me there.

Near to the store is a Scooters Coffee drive-thru ⛾.  Scooters will let you get any size brewed coffee for $1.  They don't charge extra for cream, and you can add a shot of flavor for $0.80.  For a $1.80, you can get an outstanding cup of coffee.  I like the dark roast with heavy cream and one shot of vanilla flavor.

This has become a new favorite of mine.  For those of you who think that my decaf coffee is just dirty water will be happy to know that this cup was caffeinated.  Scooters doesn't offered decaf brewed hot coffee 😞.

The 2-hour drive from Bowling Green to Shepherdsville gave me a long time to think about these verses ...

"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."

Romans 11:33-36

God is the Sovereign.  I need not worry.  I need only believe Him and obey Him.  In context, these verses come at the end of 3 chapters in which Paul describes God's ability to guide in the affairs of all men, both Jew and non-Jew.  

God is in control.  He hasn't experienced failure, because He never fails.  He doesn't worry about anything or fear anything, and He never forsakes those who have entered into a relationship with Him through faith in His sinless Son, Jesus Christ.

I really like the last verse.  Everything is of Him, or out from Him.  Creation came forth from God.  He spoke it into existence.  Without Him, EVERYTHING would fall apart.  "...By Him all things consist."

Everything is through Him, or by means of Him.  He created all things.  "For by Him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible ... ."  

Everything is to him, or going toward him.  Regardless of who likes it, world events are leading us all toward the return of the King of kings and the establishment of His Kingdom after which will be ushered in the Eternal State.  "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power."