#joel baker

[retro70s80sandmore]

Twin brothers Kevin and Joel Baker (photographed by Mariano Vivanco, 2013)

[the-toy-boy]

[naughtyneganjdm]

Okay so the other day people asked me to share the portraits I created of what I pictured maybe Joel to look like in The Guest both younger and older. I think most people know that I used Joel from The Last of Us as my inspiration, but I wanted to create something realistic. So I used the actors that they said would make a good live action Joel and mixed them together. This is what I came up with. So in my mind, this is my Joel. This isn’t a real guy btw, just a concept. Although, when I wrote him older, I pictured him having longer hair. 

[lizbitdashiznit]

So don’t worry, worry no

I’ll get out your zone

You’ll get all your dreams

Married, house & home

Worry, worry no

Meanwhile I’ll be broke

Still here all alone…

But that’s the way I like it though

[goodtaylornews]

Master post of artists tweeting about Taylor’s playlist

[moonyraccoon]

[naughtyneganjdm]

I actually created a young and old portrait of what I pictured Joel from The Guest to look like in my mind lol. Would anyone want to see that or would that be silly to share?

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Travelers

by Joel Baker

"If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." - Exodus 33:15

The life of man is one continued journey from the cradle to the grave. When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, they traveled three months and came to Mount Sinai in the wilderness, where they encamped many days to receive instruction from the Lord by the hand of Moses. Here they provoked God to destroy many of them, by making and worshiping the golden calf. At this time Moses was greatly distressed for the people, and as their leader he sensibly felt his need of the divine presence. Accordingly he was disposed to make earnest supplication to God for his blessing and direction. Though Moses and the Israelites were now in a waste, howling wilderness bound for Canaan, of which land many good things had been said to increase their desire for it, yet it seems Moses chose to live and die with God in that wilderness rather than go up to the good land without God's gracious presence. "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence."

The plain, important proposition from the text is this: God's gracious presence is desirable and necessary to direct and prosper us in the journey of life.

A man left to his own direction in this changing world would be like a ship in a storm without helm or compass. "O Yahweh, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps" (Jer. 10:23). "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh" (Prov. 16:33). With all our activity and resolution to carry on and accomplish our worldly schemes, we are wholly dependent on the blessing of God to enable us to bring them to pass: "Without me," says the Savior, "you can do nothing" (John 15:5). This is true in temporal as well as in spiritual concerns. We can never expect to prosper when God does not smile upon our undertakings.

We need the divine presence to support and comfort us under the trials of life. Go where we will and follow whatever employment we have in life, we will be attended by crosses and disappointments. But the gracious presence of God is an unfailing support under all the necessary evils of life. It will serve to smooth the rugged path of life and to fortify the mind against approaching evils. When God engages for a people, they have nothing to fear. Under his direction they may engage in the most weighty concerns and be enabled to accomplish the most difficult undertakings.

The principal and most effectual means of obtaining the divine presence is earnest and humble prayer. When God is about to bestow favors, he will first be sought by his people in order to do it for them. The wisdom and goodness of God are wonderfully manifested by giving such things as we need in answer to prayer. And though God perfectly knows all our wants and has determined beforehand what mercies to grant, yet he has also determined to make us sensible of our need of mercy and humbly to ask for it before he bestows it upon us.

We may be sure that when the glory of God is our chief end, we will have the divine presence in all our journeying through life. If God made his own glory his chief end in all his works, it is highly reasonable we should have it for our chief end too. And it is not enough to aim at God's glory in religious acts only and disregard it in everything else. The Apostle Paul teaches us that it is necessary in everything: "Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31).