As my husband once told me, "It is not about the coffee cup, it is what happens around the coffee cup." Coffee, that is how he won my heart. Yet, what makes coffee so wonderful? Is it the delicious aroma, the comfort you get from holding the warm cup in your hands, or just the simple pleasure of drinking that delicious liquid?
Thanks to Starbucks we can now enjoy each season in our mug: Winter brings peppermint, Fall brings pumpkin spice, Spring brings salted caramel, and Summer, well, it brings iced coffee. 

Maybe it seems crazy to you- all my talk of coffee, but there is a sincere sense of "home" that coffee brings. No matter where you are on this earth, each culture and country enjoy coffee in there own unique way. Perhaps that is why I have found so much comfort in moving to the country of Costa Rica because there is no doubt this country loves it café. 
No the comfort that I have found here isn't because of the coffee, although it is obvious I enjoy it; it isn't because of the people, although so many have poured out kindness towards me; it is all because of Christ. In 2 Cor. 1:3, Paul writes, "Blessed be God... the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.". Sometimes we think about "comforts" only in the physical sense of the word, but through the Lord we come to understand it in the spiritual sense. We hold all the riches of Christ  and that means so much more than just monetary things: it means redemption from our lost condition and sinful state, it means justification from the judgment that was rightly ours, it means freedom from the bondage of our sin and the slave master we once served, it means comfort from the pain that often knocks on our heart, it means victory from defeat, it means security when everything around may be changing or spiraling out of control, and the list goes on and on. Yet, how much do we think or meditate on what we already have in Christ? Do we live each day like we have the eternal God living within us, transforming us, and laboring to make us into the image of his Son? How often do we think on His Word? The Holy Words of God that we have in our hands, that He has breathed out and preserved for mankind to know Him. 
So perhaps this next morning you can hold that delicious coffee cup in your hands and embrace the word of God in your heart.