Doug Young

In my years as a biblical counselor, I quickly discovered that I was counseling eternity amnesiacs. What is an eternity amnesiac? It’s someone who has functionally forgotten the Forever life to come and tells themselves that this life on earth is all there is to life. (I wish I could say to you that I have never suffered from eternity amnesia, but I have. I still do. And I still will, until I’m finally home Forever with Christ!) As eternity amnesiacs, we make our lives much more difficult than they need to be.

Sovereignty: He does all he pleases. “Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.” Psalm 135:6 Providence: purposeful sovereignty. “I am God, and there is no other. . . . My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.” Isaiah 46:9–10

It's only when we live in awe of God and his glory and his grace that we'll be able to help our kids do the same. You can't give away what your heart already doesn't possess as a parent, so why don't you spend the next few minutes asking the Lord to restore his awe upon your soul.

Beneath the layers of their personality, your child has a heart hardwirded for awe, but sin has enabled their heart to wander from the Lord; you should know from personal experience! So, God has ordained for parents to do everything we can to restore the awe of God in the hearts of our children.

We have fallen into the trap of believing that our calling is to enforce LAW, when in fact God has chosen for us to restore AWE.

“Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” Luke 5:10 And pulling them from bondage to freedom, from darkness to light, from death to life, from hell to heaven, from Satan to Christ.

The surface of God's mercies is infinitely thick. And then the mercy starts . . .

Don't wait to develop your awe of God before investing in your local church.

Pride says, “I am greater than I really am.” Insecurity says, “I am less than I really am.” Humility says, “I am what God says I am.”

Of course, there are days when I do desire the Lord and he truly is the strength of my heart. But how can I be more consistent? I think the answer is simple: ASK FOR DAILY GRACE.

“When I look at myself, I don’t see how I can be saved. When I look at Christ, I don’t see how I can be lost.” – Martin Luther

As sinners, the most wonderful thing that could ever happen in our life is salvation, or healing. It means that the most wonderful thing that I could ever be called is not boss, or husband, or father, or friend, but "child of God."

“The magnitude of man's sin is also the measure of his need of salvation.” -Sinclair Ferguson

Again, we can never be reminded of this enough. Our identity is only safe in one Person. Jesus Christ!

.@RonDeSantis : “If I go to Best Buy and buy a TV, I pay a sales tax but I don’t keep paying taxes on it year after year.”

Looking good in orange & blue, @D1__JW!

Arkansas guard Meleek Thomas on his pre-game routine: “Making sure I talk to the Lord, talk to Jesus. When I wake up, when I go to sleep, before a game… without him I can’t do nothing. Bad game, great game… you know you can follow Him.” ✝️

Algorithms and the Affections John Piper (Nov. 2025): “If you had thought that your essence of humanness in the image of God was your reasoning capacity, over an ape or a porpoise, you’re in trouble. Because, guess what? ChatGPT is smarter than you are and more creative than you are in expressing things in language that is good. It can write prayers better than you can, and it can reason through hard problems better than you can. Therefore, there are people who are going to forsake the faith because they thought to be a human in the image of God was to be a reasoning person over against the animals, and they discovered a machine can do it better than they can. Crisis of faith. This to me is no crisis because of my Christian Hedonism. I do not think that my reasoning capacities are my essence. I think the soul’s capacity to delight in God is my essence. The soul’s capacity to enjoy God. No machine will ever enjoy, period. It will have the language of enjoyment. You can tell it to write a poem of enjoyment and it will use the language. That machine is not enjoying *her*. It’s not. It never will. Only human beings created in the image of God can enjoy God. Therefore, enjoyment matters. I mean, affections are who we are ultimately. The end of history, the end of creation, is not going to be merely rational creatures thinking rightly about God, little computers. It’s going to be people who are so perceptive spiritually of the glories of God that they are full of affections that are appropriate for those glories and can give expression to them. That’s what eternity will be.” Source: Sovereign Grace Churches, Pastors Conference PreCon (November 2025)

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” - C.S. Lewis