The voice I heard in the morning all through my school years was that of my mother telling me it was time to get up. The voice I heard at school was that of teachers telling me to be quiet. My third-grade teacher said she knew I would be a politician or a preacher because I wouldn’t shut up. Now I hear a different voice in the morning.

Psalm 143:8

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Listen in the morning to what God has to say in His Word and your day can take on a new meaning.

Give it some thought.

Gary

On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:22 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed, causing the deaths of 98 people.

I would imagine that everyone went to sleep that night, thinking he or she was perfectly safe in the sunshine state. Not the case.

There is one secure place that will never let you down. This place has been constructed by God Himself.

Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

You are perfectly safe in Him. Give it some thought.

Gary

The border between the United States and Canada is the longest international border in the world. The border between the two countries is 5,525 miles long. Both sides are very fussy about who crosses their border. The agents on both sides have sidearms.

The Bible has a lot to say about borders. The land of Israel was divided up into twelve well-defined parcels.

There are also spiritual borders:

Psalm 74:17

You have established all the boundaries of the earth;

You have made summer and winter.

Proverbs 22:28

Do not move the ancient boundary

Which your fathers have set.

The Canadians don’t like it when you cross their borders without permission. It is also true of God, so don’t cross the borders He has marked.

Give it some thought.

Gary

My brother and I would leave at twelve o’clock on a Sunday nightand head into the north Maine woods to truck logs to Canada. Monday night, sometime after nine, we would be arriving at the logging camp to get some much-needed sleep. Eighty-hour weeks behind the wheel were not uncommon. We both look back to those days with fondness. I would have followed him anywhere and he always had my back.

I appreciate the experiences that God has allowed me to be a part of. The work of ministry is hard, but I always have a brother at my back making the days doable, just like in those trucking days.

Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.

1 John 4:21

And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Love your brother and “keep on trucking.”

Give it some thought.

Gary

I think global warming is a reality. However, I’m really not sure who caused it. Let’s see: there is man, God, and the universe with all its complexity. According to the hard-core global-warming people, we should do the following:

1. Stop burning coal and oil
2. Eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds
3. Take the train
4. Carpool
5. Power your home with renewable energy
6. Winterize /weatherize
7. Drive only electric cars
8. Harness the wind
9. Build solar panels
10. Invest in energy-efficient appliances.
11. Get rid of cows

Now if God is the problem, He addresses global warming and the temperatures this old world will reach.

2 Peter 3:7-12

But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

 ¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 

Now that’s hot off the press.

Give it some thought.

Gary

No person in the history of humanity has been so thoroughly examined as Jesus Christ.

Thomas Jefferson stated,” He will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”

John Lennon said, “I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right.”

 So many opinions and so little time.

Let me simplify it for everyone by stating what the Holy Writ has to say:

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Acts 4:12

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

Either you believe what the Creator has to say or you go along with some figment of man’s imagination.

Give it some thought.

Gary

I was reading this article this AM:

As national conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) intensify, faith leaders and scholars are examining the potential ramifications these emerging technologies will have on worship, both its practice and its role in modern life.

My blessing came when someone responded in the comment section:

The falling away was foretold. We don’t need to worry, just continue to know Jesus, carry the cross, share the Word and prepare the bride as the wedding day is approaching.

Simple as that.

James 4:17
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Use the intelligence God gave you and artificial intelligence won’t stand a chance.

Give it some thought.

Gary