The most terrifying detail about Noah's Ark isn't the size of the flood. It is the design of the boat. If you look closely at the blueprints God gave Noah in Genesis 6, He was extremely specific. He gave the exact length, width, and height. He specified the type of wood and the pitch to seal it. But God left out one crucial component: no steering wheel, no sail, and no engine.
Think about how scary that is. Noah built a massive vessel to survive a global storm, but he had zero control over it or where it went. He couldn't steer away from rocks, turn into the waves, or aim for dry land. He was completely at the mercy of the water. The Ark was designed for floating, not navigation. Noah's job was to be the passenger, not the captain. God was the Captain.
This is your life right now. You are trying to put a steering wheel on a situation that God wants you to simply float on and allow Him to lead and take control.
This blessed me. I hope it blesses you too. 🙏🏾
Left side is a human lung. Right side is a tree.
The tree breathes in what the lung breathes out. The lung breathes in what the tree breathes out.
God's design is incredible.
My Grandparents Were Married For 60 Years.
One Day I Asked My Grandfather:
“What’s The Secret To Loving The Same Woman For A Lifetime?”
He didn’t laugh.
He didn’t say “communication.”
He didn’t say “date nights.”
He looked at my grandmother, who was in the kitchen, and said:
“You don’t love the same woman.”
That confused me.
He said, “She changes every few years. And if you don’t update the way you love her, you lose her.”
He told me the girl he married at 22 wasn’t the same woman at 30.
Motherhood changed her.
Loss changed her.
Time changed her.
“At 40,” he said, “she needed respect more than romance.
At 50, she needed partnership more than passion.
At 60, she needed presence more than promises.”
And every time she changed, he had a choice:
Complain that she’s “not like she used to be.”
Or learn her again.
He said the biggest mistake men make is this:
They fall in love once.
Then stop paying attention.
“Loving a woman for a lifetime,” he told me,
“is deciding to stay curious about her.”
Not assuming you know her.
Not freezing her in the version you met.
He leaned back and said something I’ll never forget:
“If you stop studying her, someone else eventually will.”
Sixty years.
Not because it was easy.
Because he kept relearning her.
2FA is seriously like "Using the device you're using, please verify you are using the device you're using by entering the code we've sent to the device you're using into the device you're using."
I firmly believe that all men dressing like this again would start to fix things.
Look at how everyone is so shocked by how much he respects himself. 😅
This is actual insane aura. 🙂↔️
I wasted 6 years building something God never asked me to build.
70-hour weeks.
Marriage on fumes.
Kids growing up without me.
A “career” that meant nothing.
Then I read Psalm 127 in the cab of my garbage truck.
“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
Read that again, slowly.
Truth #1: Your hustle means nothing without God’s direction.
“They labour in vain.”
Vain. Empty. Pointless.
You can build a tower God never commissioned.
Truth #2: Most men aren’t led. They’re self-employed.
They call it “drive.” It’s self-worship.
Truth #3: Anxiety is a sign you’re carrying what God should carry.
“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows…”
That’s not “discipline.”
That’s self-reliance pretending to be virtue.
God gives His beloved sleep.
Truth #4: Children are not interruptions to your mission. They are your mission.
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”
The world calls them burdens.
God calls them reward.
Truth #5: Your children are weapons, not trophies.
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.”
You don’t display arrows.
You sharpen them. Aim them. Launch them.
Truth #6: A full quiver beats a full bank account.
“Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…”
Truth #7: Your children will fight battles you’ll never see.
“They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”
The gate is where the public fights happen.
Your job is to prepare them to stand there.
Save this. You’ll need it.
You’re building a house right now. Every day.
In your marriage.
In your household.
In your conscience.
get alone with Psalm 127 and write down the one thing you’re building that God never asked you to build. Then start dismantling it.
The most successful people I know all have an almost irrational belief that everything will work out
And I just recently learned the word for it: Pronoia.
It means the opposite of paranoia. The belief that the world is secretly conspiring in your favor.
The funny thing about Pronoia is that it's self-fulfilling.
When you believe things will work out, you try harder. You persist longer, and you see opportunities where others see dead ends.
What's that quote again?
"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." – Nat Friedman
We all need a little more pronoia in our lives.
A woman doesn’t know she’s pregnant when she feels different.
She knows when she stops bleeding.
The cycle that was there before… isn’t.
Something has taken root.
The body knows before the mind does.
A 4th-century monk named Longinus said this:
“A woman knows she has conceived when she no longer loses any blood.
So it is with the soul—she knows she has conceived the Holy Spirit when the passions stop coming out of her.”
Read that again.
The sign of spiritual conception isn’t what you START doing.
It’s what STOPS happening.
The rage that used to spill.
The lust that used to leak.
The cowardice that hemorrhaged at every test.
When the Spirit takes root, the bleeding slows.
Then stops.
You’ve been trying to stop the bleeding for years.
Confession.
Recommitment.
Accountability partners.
Apps that block what you’ll find another way to access.
Same prayer at the same altar for the same sin you’ll commit again by Tuesday.
You’ve treated your soul like a wound to be managed.
But you cannot will yourself to stop menstruating.
It stops when life begins.
The question isn’t: “How do I try harder?”
The question is: “Have I conceived?”
Has the seed of the Word taken root in soil that will hold it?
Or are you still cycling through the same barren months, bleeding out what was never meant to stay?
Some of you feel the weight of recognition right now.
The passions haven’t stopped.
The bleeding continues.
Year after year, the same cycle.
That’s not condemnation.
That’s diagnosis.