The Shop Rite grocery store installed a coffee grinder. We could now sell packages of whole bean "Eight O'clock" coffee and the customer could grind them fresh! I absolutely LOVED it! The smell of fresh ground coffee was hypnotizing for me! Sometimes I would be working somewhere in the store and hear the grinding machine. It was easy to come up with some excuse to go to the coffee aisle so I could take in the newly created aroma!
I later learned that the smell of fresh ground coffee could set off a trigger in the brain that would make you feel hungry. Everyone knows that if you are hungry while you are grocery shopping, you tend to buy more groceries! Is it possible that the owner of the store was more interested in creating this effect than simply selling more coffee? I don't know. I don't care! I loved the feeling I got whenever I smelled it!
God knows what we need. He knows what will bring joy to our lives. Don't you believe that if He tells us to do something (or not do something) it's because He knows it is in our best interest? Today, let's stop and listen to God. It's time to "wake up and smell the coffee"! Revelation 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
I later learned that the smell of fresh ground coffee could set off a trigger in the brain that would make you feel hungry. Everyone knows that if you are hungry while you are grocery shopping, you tend to buy more groceries! Is it possible that the owner of the store was more interested in creating this effect than simply selling more coffee? I don't know. I don't care! I loved the feeling I got whenever I smelled it!
God knows what we need. He knows what will bring joy to our lives. Don't you believe that if He tells us to do something (or not do something) it's because He knows it is in our best interest? Today, let's stop and listen to God. It's time to "wake up and smell the coffee"! Revelation 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."