I don’t know who came up with the statement, but it goes like this, “He knows what I can’t say.” How many times do we come before God and the pain is just so great that words can’t express it?  It’s okay, because God’s Spirit puts it into the language of heaven.

Romans 8:26

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Come before Him; He’ll understand. Give it some quality time.

Gary

Eddie Dalton is a gray-haired, soulful blues singer with 1.4 million YouTube views, 230,000 Facebook followers, three songs simultaneously in the iTunes top 10, an album sitting at number three on the iTunes Top Albums chart, and a number-one single in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

He is also entirely fictional. Every element of him, his voice, his face, his persona, his music, was generated by artificial intelligence.

There is no real Eddie Dalton.

Old guys like his music because his music is about old age, and we’ve arrived there. How come we have developed an affection for someone who doesn’t exist? How many things in life have we reached out for that that don’t exist? Someone once told me we are just a part of the universe. Even after death, we just become a different part of the universe, so it doesn’t matter what you believe in.

Don’t you want someone that is real to follow into the future. Someone that is still with you when your ashes are placed in the ground. God exists and He has given us His Word as our guide.

Romans 1:20 

For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Hebrews 11:6 

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.

Eddie Dalton is a fictional character. God is not. Give it some thought.

Gary

The road to success is always under construction.

–       Lily Tomlin

Lily had that right. However, the right construction project is very important. You could be building the bridge to nowhere. Make sure the engineer on your project is the One who fashioned you in the first place.

Psalm 138:8

The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; Your love, O Lord, endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.

Philippians 1:6

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Psalm 139:16

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. 

Think of the construction cost of our bridge to heaven –  the death of God’s Son.

Gary

Said the Robin to the Sparrow,
“I should really like to know
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry so!”

Said the Sparrow to the Robin,
“Friend, I think that it must be
That they have no heavenly Father
Such as cares for you and me!”

–       Elizabeth Cheney (1859)

Psalm 46:10

 Be still, and know that I am God.

How about you? In a rush? Give it some thought.

Gary

Let’s review four questions and see God’s answers:

1.    Why doesn’t God destroy me?
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed (Lamentations 3:22)

2.    How do I know God will keep on loving me?
For His compassions never fail (Lamentations 3:22)

3.    When will God give me what I need?
They are new every morning (Lamentations 3:23)

4. What is my hope for the future?
Great is Your faithfulness (Lamentations 3:23)

Give it some thought.

Gary

Joke

My 85-year-old grandfather was rushed to the hospital with a possible concussion.

 The doctor asked him a series of questions: “Do you know where you are?”

“I’m at Rex Hospital.”

“What city are you in?”

 “Raleigh.”

“Do you know who I am?”

“Dr. Hamilton.”

My grandfather then turned to the nurse and said, “I hope he doesn’t ask me any more questions.”

“Why?” she asked.

 “Because all of those answers were on his badge.”

Some things are so obvious when you have the ability to see.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

What do you see? Give it some thought.

Gary