How Did I Get Here? Regaining Freedom Through Worship

Perhaps, some did because a loving god always always makes it incredibly easy for we human beings to return to him, to reconnect with him so that he can then reconstruct our spirit, soul, and body and our lives the way he always wanted to be. He's so patient. He's so merciful. He's so loving. He's so good. Like I said, he he's the best, the safest, most beautiful, best person in the universe. He's the one we should always run toward regardless of what our condition is. Never run away. [01:15:55] (33 seconds)  #RunToGod

That is not what the scripture teaches about worship. When it says the father's looking for those to worship him, worship is recognizing that god is the supremely wonderful, trustworthy, sacrificially loving, and almighty being in the universe. In other words, it's recognizing he's better than anyone. Think of the best human being you've ever seen, and God is, like, 10 times better, 10 times more kind, 10 times more forgiving, 10 times more capable of helping and desirous to help. So God's looking for people to worship him in spirit and in truth, meaning that he's looking for people that see him as he actually is [00:55:16] (39 seconds)  #WorshipInTruth

What or who we consider to be supremely important is what or who we worship. In other words, whatever I am knowingly or unknowingly deriving my sense of significance, value, esteem, my sense of significance, my sense of security, my sense of satisfaction, that's what I'm actually worshiping. Might be money, might be a person, might be a place, might be a thing, might be the real God. But whatever I'm deriving, knowingly or unknowingly, my sense of significance, security, and satisfaction, that's what I'm worshiping. It's the central organizing principle in our lives. [00:52:07] (35 seconds)  #WorshipDefinesValue

Well, the first step is this, and this is where it gets really personal with you and I because what happened to them in mass, nothing happens in mass. It happens as I, you, we, individuals, the individual Israelites were the ones that were rejecting god and rejecting his word and rejecting his will. And as this became a cumulative thing, then the whole nation got corrupted. Nations don't get corrupted by policy. Nations get corrupted little by little because more and more individuals become corrupted. [00:50:10] (31 seconds)  #IndividualsShapeNations

I mean, like those seasons in our life where for any number of reasons, we we have that pause and we say, how did I get here? How did it end up like this? I'm not where I ever intended to be. I'm not living the way I ever wanted to live. I'm here. I feel kinda stuck. But how did I get here? This wasn't part of the plan. Now here here's the honest truth about that. When when we, most of the time, have that experience, we say, how did I get here? How did things get like this? The truth is is most of the time an expression of frustration. [00:40:55] (43 seconds)  #FindYourTurningPoint

What am I saying? I'm saying the truth is if we wanted to, if we really wanted to, we could trace our steps exactly how we got where we're at and why we're getting what we got. But that's not usually what we when we say how did I get here. Well, it's a cry of despair. It's a cry of misery. It it's a hope that somehow, someway things can change, things can turn. There can be a turning point. [00:41:43] (27 seconds)  #SlowDriftFastFall

Let me say that again. We lose freedom really slow and it's unnoticed, but then we lose it dramatically, catastrophically, really really fast. All you gotta do is think of somebody that you've known that's been in any kind of an addiction cycle. The addiction cycle starts out rather slow. Might might take a year. It might take a few years to develop it, but it usually ends up rather dramatic dramatic and catastrophic. [01:07:24] (24 seconds)  #EveryoneWorships

Can they become codependent where I can't exist apart from another human being even though a human being may not be good for me and I may not be good for them? We be may slowly destroying each other, but I can't live without the person, so we'll destroy one another simultaneously. Can a person become enslaved to insecurity, feelings of inferiority, cynicism, and then the last two kickers? Can a person become enslaved to pride? [01:10:37] (25 seconds)  #LifeAlteringOccurrences