You seem to be suffering from delusions of adequacy. Carly Simon sang about you in 1972. It’s amazing that the future is so clear that you can fill your schedule right to the grave. Nice to be a prophet extraordinaire.

However, if I’m not referring to you, here is some hope for the future. 

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 16:3 

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Give it some thought, O needy one.

Gary

I wish you folks would come to church,

If only for a visit.

For someday they will carry you in,

And the Lord will say, “Who is it?”

Isn’t this a piece of Christian humor that has no connection to Scripture? Not so. We find in the Word a few statements that are convincingly close to that statement.

Matthew 7:23

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Hebrews 10:25

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

With the evil pressing in on our present world, maybe the day is closer than we think.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Did the parachute fail to open? You took a leap out of the plane of life and thought you would enjoy the long descent and have something to tell others about the thrill of it all. However, like the question previously entertained, you didn’t find a soft landing.

Case in point is a man who had it all and landed in hell.

Luke 16:22-23

The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Luke 12:5

But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!

Give it some thought before the landing is not what you anticipated.

Gary

My grandson is providing today’s devotional.

Recently I stepped on a “daddy long legs” spider before a shower and decided to learn more about them.

Unbeknownst to me, it isn’t a spider at all.  Rather it’s its own order called the Harvestman, which isn’t a predator as much as an omnivore, looking for dead plants and bugs to eat.

Each creation, including us, has a purpose and a plan given to us from the day of conception by the Father.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. 

Psalms 33:11

But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

 Give it some thought.

Gary/Joshua

These lyrics were part of a record released by the Statler Brothers in 1966. I just need to mention that they weren’t brothers, but this fact has nothing to do with the point I’m trying to make.

… Countin’ flowers on the wall
That don’t bother me at all
Playin’ solitaire ’til dawn with a deck of 51
Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kangaroo
Now don’t tell me, I’ve nothin’ to do

In solitaire, you can’t win if there is a card missing. You can come close, but there’ll be “no cigar.” How many do you know who are not playing with a full deck? They are one fry short of a happy meal.

Life has more purpose when we do it God’s way and the results are for winners.

Acts 13:36

“Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.

Think about it. This is our generation; find purposeful things to do and you should never be bored.

Gary

Was the package lost in transit? Perhaps you weren’t home when it was delivered, then a porch pirate took it. The possibility remains that you gave the wrong address. Whatever, there it is – gone.

Psalm 42:11

 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

You completed the order; now wait patiently for the arrival.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Was there a breakup in the transmission? Was the message not received due to interference? Maybe, you could blame it on sunspots. Then it could be age-related hearing loss. This phenomenon has been going on since the garden of Eden.

Genesis 2:15-17

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Visit cemeteries and see the results of not taking the transmission seriously.

Give it some thought and open your ears.

Gary