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Foxhole Symphony
Exploring God's Terms and Conditions
Have you ever wondered what terms and conditions govern your relationship with the divine? We often mindlessly accept the T's and C's in our digital lives, but when it comes to faith, things are refreshingly different. This episode of Foxhole Symphony unravels the liberating truth that God's love comes without strings attached. Join us as we journey through this thought-provoking discussion, reminiscing about the simplicity of a handshake deal and exploring how grace and authenticity define our spiritual connections, free from human-imposed conditions.
In a world where quid pro quo is the norm, maintaining a selfless spirit can be a Herculean task. Listen as we share personal anecdotes about the challenges of offering unconditional love and service. Whether it's participating in a meal-packing initiative or confronting our own judgmental tendencies, we delve into the essence of true faith and trust. Expect to be moved by stories of kindness that echo the profound impact of unseen service, all while pondering the expectations we sometimes place on divine relationships.
Shifting gears, we take a closer look at biblical commandments, not as rigid rules but as guiding life principles. Through personal reflections, we highlight how scriptures like the Ten Commandments, Psalms, and Proverbs can transform our lives, nurturing love and wisdom. This episode encourages compassion and humility, urging listeners to focus on kindness and intention in every interaction. We wrap up with a heartfelt prayer, inviting you to engage with our community and explore the eternal significance of your spiritual commitments.
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Speaker 2:In our foxhole. Men are equipped to build relationships that foster belonging, accountability and growth.
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Speaker 3:Hello everyone. They call me the Maestro and we are back in the foxhole where we actively pursue belonging, accountability and growth through authentic relationships. No masks, no agendas, just iron sharpening iron. Mark and Steve are in the foxhole and they're talking terms and conditions. Do me a favor I'm going to need you to hit accept to continue, not here. No T's and C's. In the foxhole, get comfortable, open your notes app and let's get started.
Speaker 2:Hey, welcome back to Foxhole Symphony Podcast. I'm Sarge here with Mark. How are you brother?
Speaker 1:I am better than I deserve.
Speaker 2:Yes you are, yes you are. Was that truer words were never spoken? Oh my goodness. Yeah, speaking of getting what we deserve there are. You know, in the business world, you, you and I, you and I both deal with this on a regular basis. I would say every day, t's and c's, t's and c's t's and c's terms and conditions.
Speaker 2:Baby said right, all right. I just I just this week got lobbed over the wall here. You know, here's our t's and c's. We need to review for you know, for all our customers for next year. Like what? Why am I getting this right? Why do we need to review them every year? What's?
Speaker 1:right. What's wrong with last year's?
Speaker 2:right. Do we have to do this? Did something come up? Did somebody bring something up? Did we, you know? And?
Speaker 1:and whose idea was this right? Whose idea was to actually like there's a document, terms or a section.
Speaker 2:Shouldn't an attorney review these? Why am I reviewing?
Speaker 1:them Exactly.
Speaker 2:Right, and you know, and so, um, yeah, there's terms and conditions for everything, right? Most of the time, you don't even get to see him. Most of the times, if you do get to see him, you don't read them, right? Think about the last time you got a mortgage or refried your, refried your, uh alone, right? I mean, there's, there's pages and pages, and pages and pages, and it's like you know, like you're like, yeah, let me, let me just sign here where do I sign?
Speaker 1:forget it. How about just upgrading your iphone? Hey, tomorrow night your iphone's going to upgrade. Do you accept the tourism?
Speaker 2:sure, but only you hit the button exactly if they're reading them right on page if you listen to the voxel sympathy podcast and you read every word of any terms and conditions, we want to hear from you.
Speaker 2:Yes, because I don't think that person exists right no unless you're an attorney and you're reading, you're getting paid to read it. Yeah, I, I just don't think it is and and so, and you know, I think back to like my dad, you know, like my dad's era growing up, like, were they? Did they have T's and C's? Were there terms and conditions or was it like a?
Speaker 1:handshake. It was a handshake. By the way, I know both people who listen to our podcast and neither one knows the T's and C's.
Speaker 2:Exactly, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:But remember the good old days of a handshake. I remember my dad making deals, maybe not buying a car, but in many, in many ways. You know, you come up a little short at the grocery store. Really, there was an AMP, someone came up short and I knew them from town. I'm at the register. It's like you know, come back later. Come back tomorrow, bring a few coupons, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine today They'd be like put the cart right over there Right, lock them up, not taking anything Right. So yeah, and, and, and, of course, you know our society has become so, so litigious and so everything's like. I mean, you know, more lawyers, more paper, more words, more you know, and now everything's digital, right. So now it's like you can't, even. You can't. You know, I actually, as a customer, a business customer, with a vendor, about a couple of years ago, I was told oh no, no, no, you know, you agreed to XYZ, to X, y, z, and it, it. It was literally a contractual uh term extension, within the terms and conditions that they could change the term of the agreement at any given time. It was like are you kidding me? Buried in hundreds of pages of digital content on a hidden page somewhere.
Speaker 1:A hidden page.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine? And so now I mean, it's like it's not, they don't even, you don't even have to be provided it, it's just like you know, do you agree to the terms and conditions that live at this URL somewhere? Right, and you know, look out. I mean look out because there are implications. So the question is this what's the question? Here's the question is this?
Speaker 1:What's the question? Here's the question what are God's?
Speaker 2:terms and conditions for us.
Speaker 1:How many hours you got Trick question? Trick question.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, exactly, and it's not multiple choice, it's not multiple choice.
Speaker 1:All right, let's tell the answer, let's do it, let's do Jeopardy this is going to be the shortest podcast episode we've ever done.
Speaker 2:Right, it's going to be four minutes.
Speaker 1:Who? Here you go, let's do it in Jeopardy form you ready. I'm Alex Trebek, okay, okay. Who does not put any terms and conditions on his relationship with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is it God?
Speaker 1:Who is God his?
Speaker 2:relationship with you. Yeah, is it god? Who is god? Who is god? Yep, none. Well, let's talk. I'm sorry, I've got to tell what there are. There were lots of terms and conditions, right, oh, the law, the law. There were tons of terms, conditions and they, and you know, and it all got torn up. It got torn up. I mean nothing, they're still. They're still there for a life of flourishing, of course, right. The ten commandments right, like they were given to us, not to constrain us but to lead to freedom. I mean, listen, they're still there for a life of flourishing. Of course, right, the Ten Commandments right, like they were given to us, not to constrain us but to lead to freedom, right, and so, just in its simplest form, the terms and conditions. But at the end of the day, you know, the redeeming work of Jesus on the cross, I mean, essentially, you know, I don't want to say tore them up, that's probably not the right way to say it, but, you know, canceled out.
Speaker 1:Wash them clean the blood of Jesus washed them clean.
Speaker 2:Canceled out the punishment for not following the terms and conditions.
Speaker 1:Right, and those T's and C's. Bro, this might just be me. I don't mean to sound heretical, but I've sat down and reading the Old Testament and how many times I imagine God just sitting there with his arms folded across his chest, shaking his head, going Oy, I made you, you're in my image, oh my Lord. He wouldn't say oh my Lord, oh my Lord, oh myself, oh myself. Right, god's looking at us in midst of his creation and go through the Bible, start right in the beginning, work your way to the prophets, right up to Malachi, before you get saved.
Speaker 1:In the New Testament, prophet after prophet is saying he's angry, he's angry with you, right, jeremiah Ezekiel, on and on and on. Each one is saying God really loves you and really wants you to have this territory and this is his gift to you. But you're screwing this up. Stop, what are you doing? And over and over, the human element in this story, from the first believers right, first believers right, the ancient, ancient Hebrew believers right to today, me, mark Vesper, broken, right or bent, maybe not broken, but still.
Speaker 1:My sinful nature gets in the way and I need to be reminded when I'm feeling guilty and I'm feeling like I can't even look at myself in the mirror that I remember all the people who came before me, all the wonderful, the great heroes of the Bible and all the regular humans. All of us have a God who says all right, I'm going to remind you again. I covered you with the blood of my son and you're good, we're good. Now, pick yourself up, stop sinning, repent, turn away from your sin, turn towards me. It's clean. I go through a lot of days, bro, where I don't let that sink in, that message of there are no terms, there are no conditions. I have to be clear. I'm saying this to myself. I'm. I don't want you to sin, mark. Stop sinning, but if and when you do, it's paid for. That's a tough reality for someone who doesn't have a spiritual foundation, don't you think?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, yes, yeah, and so you know, coming off of that as a foundation for the rest of our lives, right, particularly those of us who have experienced and embraced God's grace, right. What does that mean for us in the rest of our life, in the rest of our relationships? Right, and the rest of our relationships right, and whether it be in the business world, in our personal relationships, in our marriage, our relationship with our kids, those closest to us, friends, family, whatever right, how many terms and conditions do we have? Right, for you know that the people in our lives need to abide by right In order to earn our grace and approval and affirmation.
Speaker 1:Long list. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's not a rhetorical question.
Speaker 2:It's not a rhetorical question, no it shouldn't.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm sorry it should not be a rhetorical question. I have a judgmental spirit. I have admitted that on the podcast before. It's something I pray against. The enemy has a field day. You know those T's and C's of quid pro quo. My quid pro quoness is high, too high, and I'm not talking about, you know, loaning the lawnmower quid pro quo. You know Doing unto others, loving those who hurt you, and you know loving strangers, loving your enemies, treating people with kindness regardless. That's the truth. Is that's hard for me to practice in my home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, the quid pro quo sums it up well, right, what's the what's? What's the agenda? What do what do you know? What do I get? What's in it for me? What do I need? Right, Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, monster, Right, Uh, great, great comedian, Brian Regan did a bit on the me monster, Hysterical. If you haven't seen it, look it up YouTube. It Got it. But that's what you know, that's, it's. That's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 2:Right, it is Versus that outward, that outward, just servants, heart serving, serving, serving, serving, serving, giving, giving giving giving and it's like you know what I'm tired of giving Right, Well, Tired of getting tired of getting taken advantage of.
Speaker 1:That's it. You just took the words right out of my mouth. We're tired of giving because you start measuring how you got back right, yeah. And then you say, well, I gave there, but there was no fruit. And that's when I am giving I am looking for fruit. That's generally how I operate. I'm going to say, okay, you know, I'm going to give my time, talents, treasures, money, whatever, and I hope for some fruit to be born there. But I'm going to give you an example. You can relate to you, and I had the incredible joy to do this feed the need thing. Right, the pinky is right here, here's pinky.
Speaker 1:And so feed the need. And for everyone who doesn't know listening, we just both belong to a church in leadership and you can pack meals in Ziploc bags and it would be rice and soy powder and some veggies, dehydrated veggies. You pack them, you know, in a six ounce, seven ounce Ziploc, put them in a box, seal it up, put it on a pallet onto a truck, off to the airport shipping and off it goes around the world to feed starving people with a foundational meal. Right, we're not talking steak and eggs, we're just talking a rice-based, good, nutritional meal. And we had a chance to do that for five years in a row at a church and it got bigger and bigger. Right, we did a few meals one year. Five years later we packed 2 million meals, yeah, sent it out all over the world, right, and ultimately had this great opportunity and Sarge.
Speaker 1:It took me all five years to understand. I would never see anyone eating that meal ever. I'd never know what the net result. What was the ROI? I'm a big ROI guy. What's the return on my investment? Well, I shut down my life to help support those events and you and my wife were on a missions team in Zimbabwe's Africa. Is it South Africa or Africa?
Speaker 2:It was Zimbabwe's Africa. Is it South Africa or?
Speaker 1:Africa. It was Zimbabwe Africa, okay, zimbabwe Africa. And you walked into a hospital or a place where they there were kids with encephalitis, with water on the brain and such and so and apparently got into the kitchen and there were feed the need, boxes of meals there, and I believe right now, with goosebumps all over my arms, that that was my God telling my wife to tell me, mark, I've seen the ROI here.
Speaker 3:It's right here.
Speaker 1:There are sick people half a world away eating the Ziploc bags that you packed and shipped here. So that's my example. Is God?
Speaker 2:will. It was unbelievable. I mean, you just told that story in like seven seconds. It was, and it is like an unbelievable story and turn of events but absolutely, 100%, a miracle and really one of those God winks. That's like I got you Right and it's just incredible. I mean just incredible.
Speaker 1:God saying don't, don't, mark, fear not, right, mark, you can trust me, mark, yeah, this, this, this is good. Go keep giving. And this comes back to your earlier point of why I was tired of giving.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, and you bring up a good point, right Cause we, you know, we've talked about, you know, the the terms and conditions that God's grace toward the terms and conditions on us. We've talked about the terms and conditions we have for, you know, for others, um, or even for ourselves, right that we place on ourselves, um, but there's also and you just kind of referenced it is, you know, as you talk about trusting in God, is the terms and conditions we put place on God right?
Speaker 1:That's a bad list.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll edit this out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, go ahead, go ahead, you got to go there. We've committed to doing this.
Speaker 2:Listen, there's just there's. There's countless Well like there, we've committed to doing this. Listen, there's just there's. There's countless Well like, just show me, just show me. Well, just tell me one more time. Well, just convince me, well, just prove to me. I mean like all the things that are the opposite of faith, right, all the things that are the opposite of truly, you know, stepping out on the water and trusting God. And, um man, you know, like, yeah, guilty, guilty as charged. I mean you know, and and you know, and, quite frankly, I mean the enemy can have a field day on on me in that regard, like, oh, you didn't, you don't really think he said that, do you? That was just your imagination, that was your voice, not his right. Yeah, those are just some coincidences that kind of lined up just perfectly. That's not God, you know. I mean just you know all these rationalizations right Over and over and over.
Speaker 1:Can you believe? In the morning I pray to thank my God for every good day that I believe in trust in him. Yet I question him every day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, every now and then, you rescue me unwittingly by saying I'm hearing from God and he's saying, whether it's about career, it's about kids, it's about finances, it's about travel, any number of things. You'll often say to me I feel like I'm hearing from God on this, and what I'm hearing is, and I think to myself at that moment I'm so happy he said that. Like really, that touches me and warms me. I'm like all right, mark, slow down, quiet, stop the noise, quiet yourself. You too can hear from God. And sometimes it's a box of Ziploc bags filled with rice. Yep, I mean, I'm happy God can hit me with a two by four, it's okay. I don't mind the mule treatment if he needs to get my attention, I really don't. But I think we can agree that our Lord is kind and gentle and loving. He says faithful love endures forever. You know how I feel about that phrase, Psalm 138, his faithful love endures forever. And that's how he treats us like we are sheep and takes good care of us.
Speaker 1:I'm kidding about the two by four, the terms from my father in heaven is love, that's the term, that's the condition, it's a heart condition, literally. Yeah, yep, founded in love, love so strong, you'll sacrifice your son to make sure it never ends. This relationship is unending. How many things in your life can you say that about Love of your wife, right? So many conditional things in our life, but this relationship founded in love never ends. Yeah, you get it, you do. It comes with the package. I remember you starting your walk and standing on street corners with Tramp and other people and telling people about the word and what they could have. They, too, you can share in this gift. This is what the Bible says. Here's right. I'm holding my hand up, like here. This is what's there for you the passion right that you have and people don't know or they don't understand it's. It is hard to understand.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not talking about, I don't want to get into a great dissertation on the right you know, the life, the birth of our our savior and his death and resurrection. That's not, that doesn't need to be where this conversation goes, but I think we have to stand up for how strongly we believe that what we are talking about god's lack of terms and conditions are available to everyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And and just to again, just to reiterate where we started, that you know there are, uh, there are guidelines, right, there's, there's guidelines for a flourishing life that God set out. Those are his terms and conditions, and when we follow them we get to enjoy the blessing of flourishing right, because that's God's design. And when we screw up and we don't, right, there's grace and love and forgiveness. And so you know, this is not to say that they don't matter, right. I mean the guidelines matter. You know the terms and conditions matter, matter greatly, right, but it's not performance-based.
Speaker 1:No, and I want to make sure that's clear. You brought up a good point, but it's not performance-based. No, and I want to make sure that's clear. You brought up a good point. I wasn't thinking of going there, but I do not believe the Ten Commandments are terms and conditions provided by God. They're commandments, they're not a suggestion. Right, in order for me to love you, you need to know. Right, you should not kill. Yeah, I don't even want to go into it. That's not a term and condition. Jesus came to fulfill the law. The Bible's very clear about this. Right. He's not in lieu of the law or saying the law is bad. He's fulfilling those promises and it's a new promise founded in love.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right, baby, that's right.
Speaker 1:Man get cooking on this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Terms and conditions, and yeah, it's interesting. We're talking about the guidelines and been digging into the Proverbs, about, uh, praying through the Psalms and, um, you know, more recently I've been spending time and reading through the Proverbs and, uh, you know totally, totally different, right, I mean totally totally different. Um, you know the Psalms and and and Proverbs, um, and, of course, the Psalms and Proverbs and, of course, the Psalms are founded in praise and worship of God and the Proverbs being these guidelines, right, the wisdom for a life well lived, a life of flourishing, right? And it's so interesting because, again, like, are they terms and conditions? Right? Like, you know, it's just, it's it's, but you know, you read through them and you go, oh man, like, yeah, that's, uh, that's rich baby, as, as our friend Brian would say, that's rich, that's rich, you know so good, Uh, probably should have spent more time reading through the Proverbs as a young man and and and being sensitive to and paying more attention to them and um, yeah, you have to want to do it right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, or at least asking God to do it Like. Yeah, Like, give me what I need to do this, you know.
Speaker 1:Or at least asking God to do it Like yeah, give me what I need to do this, as with so many things in life, in order to embrace different parts of the Bible, be it Psalms or Proverbs or any place else you feel comfortable and are enjoying. It's almost a necessity that God anoint someone to tell you, someone you trust, to say to you hey, this is a good place to spend some time. Right, you don't get it as no test grade, but it's valuable for you to invest here. And that's in many cases. We do that when we're buying cars or going shopping and for a lot of things. Someone says to you hey, have you tried? We do it with TV shows and streaming. Did you see this app, this channel, this? Somebody says it to you that you think, oh, they're pretty reasonable, they're sane. You know, I'll take a look at that. And the same is true for the Bible.
Speaker 1:We have so many examples of a redemptive God where humans get involved. All of a sudden, things become messy. That, you know it's. One of my laments is, if there's humans involved, it's probably going to be messy at some stage or another, and and it is but we are redeemed over and over. There's there's evidence of that and I don't even want to give it away. There are some great Bible stories about, you know, the brokenness. Start with the 12 disciples. Yeah, there's not a saint among them. You know, not one. No, and each one, you know each one. Decided that they felt so strongly about their relationship with their savior that they gave their lives.
Speaker 2:Amen.
Speaker 1:That's. Come on, man, it's a heck of a story.
Speaker 2:You can't make it up Exactly and just like where you started. Man, the heroes of the faith take solace in the disasters that those men were. You know, I mean just you know. I mean by you know sinful standards.
Speaker 1:By any measure, yeah. Peter, you need more fish to pay your taxes.
Speaker 2:I'll be right back, Peter you need more fish to pay your taxes.
Speaker 1:I'll be right back, oh my goodness, david, a man after all heart, goodness Right, Forget it. So I'm thinking about this is for me. Again, I'll speak for myself. Only I am guilty of holding people to a standard that I don't meet myself In my applying terms and conditions to relationships with friends, with co-workers, with neighbors, with, etc. Do watch myself and catch myself and warn myself. Stop myself from holding people to a standard that I don't meet, and there's clearly a hypocrisy in that. There's pride in that I have made positive steps in that.
Speaker 1:But that was an area I really had to focus. So I think we usually talk about something practical here. That requires an inventory, that requires me to stop and just not let my emotions get in the way of what God might be up to, of not turning somebody away because they don't meet my standards, they don't meet my terms and conditions, and stop and say, well, you don't meet your terms and conditions. You know and I I don't do that often enough, but it's a really important cleansing for me is to try and keep my focus on fruitful things, things that bear good biblical fruit. Stay there. If I find myself in that spot, generally I'm treating people better. I'm erasing my terms and conditions list. That's just me. Do you have a way of thinking about how you treat other people? And this is when you meet someone and how you treat them right off the bat.
Speaker 1:Is there a Sarge?
Speaker 2:standard? You know there isn't. I mean, I think you know much like you. You know your mission, you know speaking about being present, right? Yeah, my mission is similar in that regard right, listening intently, responding compassionately. And so, man, it's all over the map. It really depends on my state of being, my heart, my mind, my circumstances, what's going on in my life, and so, unfortunately, it's all over the map. But at my best, I be thinking about how I'm going to respond when others are, are thinking and just just listening, and you know, and seeking to understand, and and then take the time to craft a response, and that changes everything, to create that pause. That's a game changer. It's a game changer because otherwise, yeah, like you, right, like you know, the ABCs always be closing right, always be like you, right, like you know, the ABCs always be closing right, always be closing Right. So you're, you know you're a sales guy.
Speaker 1:Taking my sales story, Always be closing right.
Speaker 2:Chapter two yeah, so, uh, you know the quid pro quo what can I, what do I deserve, what can I get out of it? What's you know? You know I've been wronged. Right, justice needs to be served. What can I get at Like, what do I, what am I getting Right and um, Is my hidden agenda.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, or just agenda. What's my agenda, right Versus? Just loving connection, loving authentic connection and um, if, if our agenda is loving authentic connection um, a, um, 100 of the time, could you imagine that that's our god change, that's our god? Yeah, loving authentic connection 100 of the time. So you know, make that our agenda today. May we make that our agenda today and every day.
Speaker 1:That is our term. That's our term. That's it. Loving authentic connections that's our term. No conditions I love it, no conditions, I love it.
Speaker 1:Well, I'd like to close by simply saying that there's this idea. First of all, we gave away the answer, so we just want everyone to acknowledge the fact that we were not challenging you any more than we're challenging ourselves. We thought about for about 30 seconds about what were God's terms, and so we both got that one right. But I also I want to remind myself and remind you, sarge, this type of attitude of no terms and conditions, with unconditional love, loving authentic connection starts at home. So I want to invite everybody listening to go hug the people that are closest to them.
Speaker 1:Now, that's appropriate, and when you get home, if you're not there, that we start. There we all start. We have this fresh start right. We've had an election, we've got some new ideas, there's new things happening here in and around us. We have this fresh start right. We've had an election, we've got some new ideas, there's new things happening here in and around us, and maybe we just continue that momentum and evolve our relationships right with the people we love the most, the people we are with the most that we want to be with, the most, at least, unless you're a workaholic. But let's start there. Let's agree to love unconditionally at home, to the point where the people around you going what's going on? What, what happened to you? And the answer is you got. You got some love.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right Amen brother.
Speaker 1:Before you go, I just want to let you know. While I may not be spot on, I think it's appropriate to say this episode will be probably number 80, 81, 80, or in the 80s since we started. It also is precariously close to our very first episode, which was November 24th of 2021. Episode which was November 24th of 2021. So this might not be again on the day, but a three-year anniversary is going to come and go right Right near Thanksgiving, when you and I started this three years ago. So I want you to know it's for congratulations on our three-year anniversary. I love you and I love doing this with you, and 80 episodes later, I'm still happy doing it with you.
Speaker 2:Happy anniversary I've got some terms and conditions for my 2025 contract.
Speaker 1:That's all I have to say. Great to see you, bro.
Speaker 2:I want to double my pay. I'm out. My pay doubled or else.
Speaker 1:I can agree to that.
Speaker 2:Zero. Wait a second. No, wait, no, not double. Hang on. I got to do the math again.
Speaker 1:Back up. Yeah, get out your abacus. Thanks bro. Good God bless you, bro, you too, peace, peace.
Speaker 3:I think about how this conversation got started, specifically when Mark reminded us that we never really spend time looking at the words in those T's and C's. We hit, accept and we keep it moving forward, and I know that that's true for me. My takeaway from this time with the guys is this when we are faced with agreements or relationships, we must consider them carefully, understand them and the weight that they carry. You know, when I'm downloading the latest version of an app I've been using for the last five years, well, it's a $1.99 investment and if I have to pivot to a new app, the delete button is always available. But when I consider the fact that I have a temporary body that's housing an eternal soul, well, that gets heavy real quick.
Speaker 3:I'm spending time to understand my options and the options for the people I love. I believe God has given us his word to reveal who he is, who we are, the plan to bridge the chasm that separates us and how to gain access to that bridge. I don't want to read his word, I want to marinate in it. Lord, please continue to use this podcast to impact the lives of all who listen. I ask that you would bring hope and healing to each and every one of them. Meet them right where they are and reveal yourself to them like only you can do, in Jesus name Amen.
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