You know, I've always loved the description of the Proverbs 31 woman where it says,

and she smiles at the future.

It's such a beautiful attribute when you can look toward the future and smile,

and every Christian can. You know, there are some things about the future.

Of course, it should make us weep like the plight of the unsaved, right?

And the outcome of life for the lost, but when we think about our future in the Lord,

you know, I was in Mississippi recently, as I talked about in the last podcast, and

my friend Dustin was driving me somewhere down the street, and he was oblivious to this,

because we were fellowshiping, but I was looking out the window, and the sun was, I think,

maybe setting, and there's beautiful light, and it was on this forest. It was just a real

idyllic kind of a scene, and I just, in an instant, envisioned eternity.

And the undeniable reality that we are going to be when the Lord forever, and the new heavens

and the new earth, and my eyes just teared up. It was like this overwhelming gift from the Lord

at that moment. You know, we forget about that. We go about life, we're going to be an eternity

with the Lord. I was recently radically refreshed at a regional Starbucks, and it wasn't just from

the strawberry lemonade refresher that I consumed, but it was by the brave courageous and extremely

unique barista. Barista? Barista. Barista. Oh, even the males are called barista.

I am not Spanish. I don't call them a barista. Anyway, I was sitting there mining in my own

business, working on my beautiful new Mac, and other things. When all of a sudden, these young

boys walked in, teenagers, I don't know, 16, 17, something like that, and one of them had his

arms full of all kinds of stuff, like potato chips and a bunch of stuff. And he walks in,

and his friend goes, what are you doing, man? Why don't bring that stuff in here? And he goes,

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