A Cup of Coffee

     As I was stood in line waiting for my take out order, I noticed an old sign in the back of the store which went something like this, “A cup of coffee for 5 cents but worth 10 cents.”  That had to have been an old sign, for these days it would read more like, “a cup of coffee for 10 cents but worth 5 cents.”  With the cost of things today I believe that is how most people feel.  Every time we go to the grocery store the items we are looking for have usually increased in price.  Even  our paychecks reduce annually as taxes increase.  It is a never-ending battle.

     Yet, we are assured of one thing in our lives that will never increase in price.  When we become Christians and accept God into our lives, we are covered with His grace.  There is never, or will there ever be, an increase in cost.  Grace is freely given and guaranteed to remain cost free. 

     True,  we, as humans, may think there is a cost involved and often quote, “Everything comes with a price.”  We think that we must change our lives and often our friends.  People are watching to see if we change.  But that is where the reward comes in to play.  To have God’s love and His blessings in our lives is not a cost at all.  It is an enrichment to the very core of our souls. 

    I am so very thankful that God remains with me even when I attempt to walk away and live according to “my will” and not His.  When I neglect to talk with Him daily and seek Him, that is when I pay the cost- the cost of the results of my sinful nature.   Yet through it all, God says, “Return to me.  I’ll support you through the troubles you have created.  I will love you anyway.   You may be “a cup of coffee for 5 cents” but you are worth much, much more.”