On these hot days of summer, it's a blessing to have air-conditioning in our homes and offices. It's an even greater comfort to hear what God offers to our souls: "The LORD watches over you—the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night" (Psalm 121:5-6). When life is hot and difficult, it's great to know that God is our shade. God is our air-conditioning!

Here's a Bible chapter for anyone who ever feels overwhelmed by the seeming hopelessness of life in this world. The people living in Corinth believed in Jesus as their crucified and risen Savior, but they doubted God's promise of the resurrection for everyone who believes in Jesus. The Apostle Paul addresses their doubts in 1 Corinthians 15, and so doing points all of us again to what our Savior's work means for us. Because Jesus lives, we, too, shall live!

The Seventh Petition of the Lord's Prayer is the Lord's 911 service, but he doesn't want us to wait until we see an emergency before calling him, and he doesn't want us to wonder, either, if he will be able to help us.