Genesis - The Duke Suite (1980)

This live performance, in my opinion, is musical brilliance! The band Genesis, captured at the height of their powers in 1980. And I apologize if I'm repeating myself, but each time I listen to this album, I'm transported to the Red Food Store parking lot on Lee Hwy, thunder and rain just pouring down, listening on my buddy Steve's custom Pioneer audio system in his 81' Chevy Camaro.

It truly just seems like yesterday . . . 

Genesis | Duke | 1980

"What It Means To Me" by David Jeremiah

Did you hear about the professor who invented a complicated but finely-tuned machine in his garage? The contraption was years in the making. Finally one day an inquisitive neighbor persuaded the inventor to let him peek at it. There it was—an enormous apparatus with gears and belts and flywheels and electronic components with their flashing lights and digital readouts. 

With a push of a button, the machine hummed into motion with seamless precision, all the moving parts operating together like a miniature galaxy. The neighbor was hypnotized by the synchronization of the parts, then he asked, “But what does it do?”

“What do you mean?” asked the professor.

“I mean, what does it do? What is it good for?”

“Oh,” said the scholar, “it doesn’t really do anything, but look how wonderfully it works.”

That’s a picture of much of today’s thinking. Scholars have elaborate theories, and we all have lots of opinions, but sometimes we never get around to application. We can accumulate information, explain ideas, and discuss data, but left unanswered is the question—so what?

"If I Were The Devil" by Paul Harvey

If I were the Devil

If I were the Prince of Darkness

I'd want to engulf the

Whole world in darkness

And I’d have a third of it's real estate

And four-fifths of it's population

But I wouldn't be happy until I had seized

The ripest apple on the tree – thee

The Impact Of Pride

The longer that I linger on this planet, the more I discover the lack of true perspective that I have about my life. In 1974, Bravo, a software program, was one of the first programs to incorporate the WYSIWYG technology, or as it is better known, What You See Is What You Get. This was a revolutionary concept at the time because before this software was released, printing was a lot like trying to hit a target in the dark. What your eyes perceived on your computer screen was generally not what happened when you tried to print your work. 

A lot like what are realities are like without the wisdom of Christ. 

"We set our eyes not on what we see but on what we cannot see. What we see will last only a short time, but what we cannot see will last forever." - (2 Corinthians 4:18 | NCV)

" . . . Ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory - to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for Christians, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him - endless energy, boundless strength!" - (Ephesians 1:17-19)

To see how this looks let's examine a king who lived around 700 BC. (2nd Chronicles 26 and 2nd Kings 15: 1-7)