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Good morning! Great day ahead - great season ahead!! I’m so thankful to begin another journey of 1,000 Touchdowns with millions of you. But for me - as always - *nothing compares* to knowing Christ my Savior. May God bless you and your loved ones.

If I'm honest this has been a hard season for me lately. I've been struggling with trusting God's timing. I was reminded when reading Psalm 37 today that I am to be still before Yahweh and wait patiently. That Yahweh is good to those who wait for him and seek him, and it is good to wait quietly for God’s salvation (Lam. 3:25–26). This quiet waiting involves hoping in God’s word while the soul waits more intensely than watchmen awaiting morning (Psalm 130:5–6). I was reminded that prior to preaching to thousands, for a season Peter went back to fishing after thinking he failed Jesus. That Paul sat in prison cells, Lazarus lay in a tomb, Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Hannah wept on the steps of the tabernacle, Joseph was locked in the captivity, and Moses stood in the fields of Median herding sheep. All before God made moves in his timing. Times of waiting, while hard, remind us of the confidence we should have in God’s timing and character. When direction seems slow in coming, we're called to wait for it, assured it will come when the time is ready (Hab. 2:3). Yahweh himself waits to be gracious and show mercy, and those who wait for him are blessed, for he is a God of justice (Isa. 30:18). Rather than taking matters into their own hands, like I often am tempted to do, we are instructed not to repay evil but to wait for the Lord, who will deliver us (Prov 20:22). Hoping for what is unseen involves waiting with patience (Romans 8:25), and through the Spirit and faith, believers eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Galatians 5:5). Waiting involves expectancy and hope regarding events and contingencies still in the future, it's the outworking of a spiritual posture directed at trusting God’s promises and timing rather than our own understanding. Knowing all of this, writing here on X doesn't make my season of needing to wait any easier, but the consistent, inspired, inerrant testimony of scripture nonetheless gives me something solid to trust in. I am fickle, impatient, and finite. God is trustworthy, forbearing, and infinite. And his timing is right even if I don't know how or when things will happen.

@AttorneyF_ sage words.

Nobody asks why beauty exists, but everyone asks why suffering does. The question nobody asks is the one that changes everything. Modern physics confirms that the universe has an undeniable, finely tuned order: the gravitational constant is calibrated so precisely that a deviation of 1 in 10^40 collapses everything. The human eye processes 10 million colors. DNA encodes more information per cubic millimeter than any human technology has approached. This is all magnificent, the designer’s track record is not in question. If a surgeon has performed ten thousand flawless operations and you are on his table, you do not demand explanations for every incision. Excellence earns the right to say “I know what I’m doing” before the full explanation arrives. Past precision earns theological trust for the parts we cannot yet explain. It also proves capability: if this God can build something as complex as DNA, then he has the technical capacity to end suffering. The question is not if, but when. A hidden premise is buried inside the very popular complaint about suffering. When we ask why God allows suffering, we assume we deserve better. We demand perfection now, before the final act of history. The Christian framework refuses that assumption, it posits that sin is not merely a behavioral lapse correctable with effort; it is an ontological distortion, a fracture in our nature, and a chosen distance from the source of all coherence. The world we experience is not random cruelty; it is the accurate shape of that distance. The farther from the light you go, the darker it gets. That is the factual architecture. In this sense the staggering question is not why we suffer, but why, given what we are, anything beautiful exists at all. What we have now is a mediated reality. God governs through instruments and delegated systems; the sun for light, the rain for growth. This is God operating behind a veil, and the reason is mercy. To drop the veil and introduce his full presence into a fractured world would mean immediate consumption by absolute justice. To end all suffering this second would require either importing evil into the final perfect state, or executing final judgment immediately, closing the door on everyone not yet reconciled. The pause before the last act is not negligence, it is a stay of execution, the widest mercy available, keeping the door open for reconciliation before the final reality sets in. Revelation 21 promises he will wipe every tear from every eye. This is not a general amnesty where wrongs are administratively cleared, but something personal, individual, and complete. If a single person in the new creation carries unaddressed grief over what God allowed, the system fails. The promise is therefore not a mere comfort verse, but it is a contractual commitment from a God with the full capacity to keep it. In the New Jerusalem, the delegation stops. There is no sun or moon, for God himself is the light of the city. He removes the veil and gives all of himself. What we are living in now, with its suffering and its waiting, is simply the scaffolding. Scaffolding has rough edges by nature, and that is not an indictment of the architect.

'Then Job replied to the Lord: “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. ' Job 42:1-3

"If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load." Galatians 6:3-5

"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

"Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools." Jeremiah 17:11

"You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?" Isaiah 29:16

"Of all gambling in the world, there is none so reckless as that of the man who lives unprepared to meet God — and yet puts off repentance." - J.C. Ryle

@elonmusk @creation247 "You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

@elonmusk @creation247 Accepting Jesus as a moral teacher yet denying His deity is dangerous and foolish. You must make your choice. Take all claims together, not just moral teachings. Suppose your neighbor made His claims (to be God, to forgive sins), would you credit him as a great moral teacher?

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1

“In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”” Hebrews 12:4-6

@elonmusk “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” Psalms 19:1

CS Lewis

“The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.” Proverbs 17:3