The Season You're In: Beyond Surviving

That's what it feels like. Like, oh, that that's too much. But Ecclesiastes kind of puts even these seasons and limits and and all that into perspective. This is a this is a season where it's a time to heal if I would let it. It's time to to actually recover, time to refrain. I don't get to schedule it, but I do get to live faithfully in it, or at least I have the option of living faithfully in a season. [00:09:05] (33 seconds)  #HealingSeason

Well, wishing I'd come to a different church with a better preacher. I'm think trying to think of this or trying to think of that. I'm trying to think of what I have to do afterward. Is there a Seahawks game today? No. There's not, guys. Don't worry about it. We got to buy it. Everything's fine. You know, be present in the moment you're in. You know? You've got an assignment. Are you going to be faithful? That's really the only question. That's the adventure you get to choose is faithfulness right now where you're at. [00:14:38] (27 seconds)  #BePresentBeFaithful

So there's nothing better than to just be joyful in what you have, joyful to do good, do the right thing, be aligned properly with god and with humans, and and do it do it very well. And so now we hear words like, life is a gift. This is our portion. This is a pleasure. Enjoy it. It's good. [00:17:35] (20 seconds)  #LifeIsAGift

god can start to help us pry as he pries away our fingers from that thing that ended. That was a season. That was good. He can start to help us see that's not your identity and what just happened. You still you still can look to me even in this season and this next season and this next season. [00:19:38] (20 seconds)  #IdentityBeyondSeasons

``Because we look back to say, well, I remember that one day, and I was a good person then, and I had purpose then. And that was that one time, and we just kinda look back, and Jesus is just asking us to be faithful in the thing he's got right in front of us right now. When I see people sprint past me I tried playing basketball the other day. I'm like, just let it go, Howard. Let it go. Let it go. It's going to be okay. Don't fake the season, right? Don't act like you're at full speed. Be faithful in that gear. That's what I'm learning. [00:19:58] (34 seconds)  #FaithfulInThisSeason

And god's like, what if you knew that I was your shelter? What if you knew that I was your security? What if you knew that I was your anchor? What if you knew that that I'm not letting things slide by? Because for god, time isn't isn't a thing, honestly. But for us, it just feels like, oh, no. It's such a stressful thing in this person. I don't wanna don't wanna disappoint that person, and I I always want that person to be proud of me, and I'm trying to figure all this stuff out. And fear of man is usually what keeps us spinning, whereas fear of God, I mean, actually, I respect and care more about what he says about me than I do about what everybody else says. [00:22:56] (41 seconds)  #FearGodNotPeople

And then the idea that god will someday review your life with you is interesting. Do you ever imagine going to him and saying, this is what I did with it? Like, what what did you do with that? What did you do with the life I gave you? Well, I mean, I didn't really think about you, but this is what I had this is how I enjoyed my life, or this is what I tried to do. We we need to put ourselves in front of that future accountability date and say, oh, yeah. This is what I did with the life. [00:25:04] (35 seconds)  #LiveWithEternalAccountability

But no matter how many grill lights or tanning lights or bulbs you put on, lights, right? We try to interrupt winter with our holiday lights and Christmas. Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's good. But no matter how many laptops you plug in, how many screens you come in, you just can't make it summer all year. So if you could look through the season through all those floors, all those lenses and say, okay. Yeah. It's absurd, but there's a gift here and it's accountable. I wanna live that way. We can be faithful as we walk with god in the midst of that. [00:34:21] (34 seconds)  #EmbraceSeasons