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And He says stuff like that. Imagine the King of creation. Imagine the King of the universe, Jesus Christ Himself, who made the universe, spoke it into existence, saying, by Myself, I can't do anything.
Imagine that. Imagine not only the humility, but just the reality of what He's saying, is that He and the Father are so ingrained in one another that they are literally inseparable. They can't be apart from one another.
They can't be broken. He gives us the picture there of how we ought to be approaching life, is that we don't seek our own will, we seek God the Father's. Just like Christ did when He was here. Yes, Jesus and God, I mean, you can get into discussions about the Trinity. Jesus is God, but He's got the Son. How does the Son relate to the Father? That's a whole different discussion. But He's saying the posture of humanity is to seek not our will, but the will of our Father. Jesus lays that out for us, and He paints the picture of how we ought to live our lives. That's right.
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Yes. I had someone write into the show. I was really excited about this one.
On its face, it's kind of bland, but I think it's really subtly funny. You get a million dollars. Any time you see someone eating a burrito, if it's at home, if it's out in public, wherever it is, if you see someone eating a burrito, you have to walk up to them and be like, hey, can I show you something real quick? And no matter what they answer, whether they say yes or no, you just unfold their burrito and walk away. That's all you do. You don't mess with it. You just unfold it completely and just walk away. I'm just trying to picture myself like, how would I respond if someone did this to me?
Yeah, exactly. At worst case scenario, you just go get another burrito. They don't crumble it up. They don't mash it down. They're just like, hey, can I just give you a little hint?
You just unfold it, lay it out, and leave. I feel like this will come up often because we often will go to Mexican restaurants. There's a lot of Mexican food here.
Dr. Shaw loves Mexican food. How much? A million? Yeah, just a million dollars. I'd take it.
I'd take it. Hey, can I show you something real quick? Yeah. Now, if you're at a restaurant with your family and you see someone else, do you walk out? Do you go back to your table and risk a confrontation with this person? Can I time it to where we're getting ready to leave?
Yes, of course. You just have to do it. Think about this now. You're in a Mo's or something, and there's five people eating burritos. That's a lot of burritos. That's a lot of burritos.
You've got to go from one to go do it to someone else. Then you're like, hey, can I show you something? I just saw you unfold that person's burrito.
You've got to unfold their burrito before you leave. Sure. Yeah. You'll do it? Yeah, I'll take it. Sure.
David, would you take that, David? Do I have to... You said I have to see it? If you see someone eating a burrito, yes. Can I go into a restaurant where I know there are going to be burritos wearing sunglasses, but they're just covered up completely and have somebody guide me around? Why wouldn't you just go blindfolded? Well, because I don't want to look like a dummy. So you want to impersonate a blind person?
No, no, no, no, no. If I wear glasses... So he can't see the burritos. I understand that, but if you also went blindfolded... I would wear sunglasses, right? On the inside of the sunglasses, there would be something to cover. But if you have someone leading you around, you're going to look blind. Well, I might just try to find my way around. I'll use my eyes to look at my feet and see where I'm walking. You're the person who wants to fist fight a bison, but you're too scared to unfold a stranger's burrito?
Well, it's not that. I'll fist fight a bison because I know I'll beat it. I don't want to unfold a stranger's burrito because then you might not know. Because if they fight me, then I don't want to beat them.
I don't want to have to beat them. Got you. I want it just to be a peaceful burrito interaction. Sure. Where you unfold it and walk away. Right.
Now, if all of them are peaceful, then sure. But if somebody starts trying to bow up... You don't want to have to put the hurt on. I don't want to have to fight you.
I will, but I don't want to. Did you say bow up? Bow up? Yeah, if somebody bows up.
I just haven't heard. That's an old people term. Yeah, to bow up somebody. Yeah, to bow up. I would take the money. I would take the money and I would unfold people's burritos. Nick, would you do it, buddy? You wouldn't do it.
Nick wouldn't do it. Okay. I wonder if Dr. Shah would take that. Yeah. You think so?
He would do most anything for a million dollars. On this sound thing, I need like a cha-ching. Like a cha-ching? Yeah. Let's see. What's the closest thing I have to a cha-ching?
A million dollars thrown up in there. Hooray! Yeah, no. I would do it. I would 100% do it. Brandon, let us know if you would take that.
A million dollars, but you have to unfold every burrito that you see. Hey, can I show you something? Yeah, you've got to set it up, too. It's a fun trick. You don't just go up and do it. You have to be like, hey, what's going on? My name's Ryan.
My name's Dr. Shah. Let me just show you this right here. And then... Live the walk away. What if someone did that to you? I think I would just be so dumbfounded that I wouldn't do anything. I'd just be like, what just happened?
You try to stand up for yourself. Hey! They're gone. They're gone.
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Yeah, as well. I'm going to give you a million dollars, my friend. That's a lot of money. This is one that was posed to me a number of weeks ago, and I meant to do it on the show, and I completely forgot to do it.
A million dollars. Any time you see somebody eating a burrito, you have to be like, hey, can I just give you a little piece of advice? Can I show you a trick? And they're like, yeah, yeah, sure. You just have to unfold their burrito. That's all it is. Just unfold it, yeah, and be like, there you go. That's it.
You have to ask permission, and they'll always tell you, yeah, it's all good. And how much do I get? A million? You get a million.
How much are you about to do this? That's for life. Any time you see someone eating a burrito.
Any time someone eats a burrito around you. That's what I'm saying. If it's Nicole, it's like, whatever, that might be kind of funny. But you're out at the mall, you're at the food court. There's a potential you're going to get punched, cussed out. Maybe that, yeah, you could. You could. You could.
I mean, you could run away after, or you could hire a bodyguard. That's true. Can I pay someone else to do it? Yeah, sure.
That's true? Yeah, you can pay someone else. I'll take it.
Pay someone else to take your looks for you. There are people like that who would do it for like, hey, every time we do this, $10. Yeah. And they'd be like, sure.
Absolutely. To me, that's really funny where it's just like, hey, can I just, can I just give you, like at the gym, people come up, can I just give you some helpful advice? You're like, yeah, sure.
You just unfold the burrito. And that's it? Just walk away, yeah. I think most of the time people would just be so stunned that they wouldn't react. Yeah, true. What just happened? Yeah.
Is that real? It depends on who it is. Some people will just let you have it. It's dangerous for us because we eat Mexican food a lot.
We do. To me, that's, I love Mexican food. I'm the type of person, I'll eat the same thing over and over for a week and never, ever get tired of it. Yeah. And there was a point- You know, I've been eating the beefsteak picado for, good night, like 15 years. Yeah. Really? It's good. It's just good.
When you find something that works, I mean, you don't want to deviate too far from it. Yeah. Yeah. I've definitely had, I've definitely had places where, I've actually had people come up to my table, they haven't like touched my food, but I've had people come up to my table before. I think we were at Olive Garden one time and they were like, hey, you know, you shouldn't be ordering that. And I was like, what? They were like, yeah, you shouldn't be ordering that.
It's way overpriced. They don't make it good here. I was like, get the heck out of here. What are you talking about? It's not your business. Yeah, get out of here. Who do you think you are trying to come to my rescue?
It's my food. I wonder if someone paid him a million dollars to do it, though. Probably.
I don't know. Next time, be like, can I check your pockets real quick? Do you have a million stashed in there? David texted and said you could pay him to be your buddy. He would happily do it. He'll happily just- You're hired. Yeah.
Where's the million? Yeah, just unfold people's burritos. No problem. For $10, we would do that. You may need someone to come to your rescue if you go around doing that. You could pay someone- You may have to hire somebody to protect you.
The bodyguard for the bodyguards. You could pay someone to come to your rescue. But a lot of times when we're in trouble, we desire that rescue. We desire someone to come and meet us where we are at our time of need. And that's exactly what God does for us. That's true.
And we're going to talk some more about that today. But in light of that, Dr. Shaw, what is our daily encouragement for our listeners today? Well, rescuing feels weak. True. To be rescued feels weak. But not when it comes to God being your rescuer. Yeah. And many times we're trying to do things in our own strength and our own power. Staying up all hours of the night trying to fix a situation.
Here's a suggestion. Take it to God in prayer. That's right. Let him rescue you. And that rescue may not be immediate resolve of that problem or resolution of that problem. It may take time.
It may take some ends and bends. That's okay. But God will rescue you in his timing. That's right. And just trust him.
That's right. And it's funny because when I think of people rescuing, I always think of those videos of moms where the baby's about to fall off the bed and the mom is doing a dive bomb. Parent reflexes real quick. And then they have to take all that time to be like, oh, oh, my heart.
Oh, I'm so sure. But God is never like that. It's not like God rescues us.
He's like, oh, thank goodness, I made it just in time. From the very beginning of time, he knew every instance where you would have to be rescued. In fact, the primary way we encounter God is in times of trouble when he comes to our rescue. That's right. I mean, that's the whole idea of salvation. Salvation involves saving. Saving means rescuing. That's right.
So, yes, there are people who talk about God being holy and God being loving and God being creative and God being the provider. And all those things are great. But ultimately, he's the rescuer. Right.
And all those other attributes sort of flow into that. And I don't want to ever lose sight of that. He is the rescuer. He is a saver. That's true.
That's true. And our worship, you know what I mean? When we gather together, we worship God. That's just a natural outcome of people who have been so awed by God's rescue in life. I know for me, like, the fact—and this is so cliche. Oh, God saved an old sinner boy like me. But at the same time, there's some truth to it.
Like, when I think—when I really take a reflective look of who I was, the things I did, and the attitude that I had even towards God, the fact that he would still save me, like, the only response I have is to worship him. Right. There's nothing else. I can't be like, hey, thanks a lot.
Appreciate it. Yeah. And I'm giving my heart and my soul and my life to God for doing that. I just think about it from a parenting perspective. Sometimes when you have to, like, go and repeatedly rescue your kid, your kid is like, you know, a little one that kind of toddles close to the edge of something, or they, you know, try to pull a chair down on him. Eventually, you're going to be like, all right, come here.
Come here. I'll save you again. But that's not the way God is with us.
No. There was a quote in Star Wars Episode I where Qui-Gon Jinn saves Jar Jar's life, and he goes down to the Gungans, and he's like, yeah, yeah, saved his life. His life belongs to me now.
And I remember as a kid thinking that was actually how it worked in the world, and then having to relearn that in Christianity, being like, no, that is true. You saved my life. My life belongs to you. You know what I mean?
That's right. And I don't know why that quote always stuck out to me, but I try to live my life that way where God is telling me, hey, I want you to go this direction in your life. It's like, I don't want to. It's like, my life isn't mine. My life is not mine.
And if you truly understand what you said just a few moments ago, that God saves someone like me, if we truly understand that, that concept that I was dead in trespasses and sins, I had no hope. He made me. He sent his son to down the cross for me, to give his life for me, to be my substitute, to take my sins upon himself, and not just mine, but the whole world.
But this is personal right now. So my sins upon himself, he did all of that. He conquered sin and the grave. So not just sin, but also the grave.
He died my death and he's alive today. I mean, the whole idea should so overwhelm us that we launch into praise. And there are people who are not perfect, but they at least have that concept down. I have a lot of respect for them because when they worship whatever style of music it is, it doesn't matter. It's coming from the heart. So I've seen people with, you know, Southern gospel singing that way, what it means to be saved.
And I'm like, yep, I like that. I have seen people singing gospel music like more, you know, the R&B style, but they get it and you can see tears. And it's not just their voice or their ability and talents, but it's just from their heart, their singing, God, you saved me. And then I've seen people singing like that in India, completely different genre of music. But singing comes from the heart.
African music, European music. But once people truly sing with that in mind, it's real. And it really gets to the heart of God. There's a good conversation to be had there because, you know, our album is coming out very, very soon.
It'll be out maybe hopefully in the next couple of weeks for you guys to be hearing. But those songs are prayerfully considered in light of heaven. You know, heaven is our theme, but also salvation and that sort of that, what am I trying to say, that premise that you're setting up there, which is I was in need of salvation. I was in desperate need.
And having Dr. Shah help us write those songs was a real help because it brings in that element, not just of sound doctrine, but of need and fulfillment. You know what I mean? We need heaven. It's not like a fun thing that we get to go do. We need it for our souls.
That need unifies us. I remember there was one time where I was on a tour with the choir that I was in in college, and we went to Austria, and we were seeing all these choir-type hymns in these really old cathedral buildings. But there was one time where we were sitting on the street corner, and we heard familiar music but not in English. So we were listening, and I was like, they're singing contemporary worship songs, but it was in Austrian. And so we walked over to them, and they were singing, and so we joined in because we knew the song in English. So we started singing with them, and they were singing in a different language, but we were singing the same song together. And it was just this profound moment where we were on opposite sides of the globe.
We were united in our need for a savior. So do you remember when we were in Israel at the Garden Tomb, and we heard worshiping coming from that upper room? There were some things on that trip that really reminded me about the heart of worship, because there were also some things on that trip that reminded us that worship can be falsely manufactured. There were a couple of places where it felt like there were some people who were trying to create false moments of death. And it just didn't feel genuine. And it was kind of confusing, because this is the place where it should feel genuine. And then going to the Garden Tomb and hearing it, it wasn't even coming from me. It wasn't coming from anyone in our group, but we heard it coming from that upper room. And that was a moment where I felt like God spoke to me and said, hey, look, just as I've rescued you, I've rescued them. And you're going to learn something from their worship.
Even if you're not up there part of it, taking part, you're just going to hear it. That's right. Well, Peter, in his epistle, the first epistle, 1 Peter, he quotes from Psalm 34 where David not only thanks God for coming to his rescue, but also reminds others around him to do the same.
That's right. I mean, that's what Psalm 34 is about. And in Psalm 34, as you know, it's a psalm of David. The preamble begins with a psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away and he departed. And so the literal translation is when he changed his taste before Abimelech.
Wow. So it really changed his personality because fear came in and doubt and stress came in. And so it is referring to 1 Samuel 21, where David ended up being in Philistine territory, thinking he'll be safe there. And very quickly, the servants of Achish, king of Goth, recognized him and they tried to tell the king, but the king only could see David's acting. Yeah, it's a madman.
His act, which is what David did. You know, he began to form at the mouth and act all crazy. Crazy person.
And began to, you know, drool down and the king, I love his statement, is like, have I need of any madmen that you bring this to me? Should I take him home with me? Maybe you can stay in my bed.
Maybe you can just... I have enough crazy people to deal with. Don't bring me one more. He's one stressed out king.
Yeah, I can't get over that. That's just in the word of God this whole episode. The book is so relevant.
The Bible is such a relevant word of God that it's like something somebody would say today. When you're really stressed out and somebody brings something like that at that moment, it's like, do I need this? Do I need it now?
What should I do? Take him out? He's like rubbing his temples. He's like, y'all really thought I needed this now. The thing where he pinches the bridge of his nose.
He's like rubbing his eyes. He's like, why now? Of all days. Y'all couldn't have brought it last week at my birthday.
It's got to be now. You couldn't have brought me somebody who is like adept and well mannered and well spoken. You brought me the village idiot. What I like about it too is that it's not pointless. It gave us Psalm 34.
It gave us these Psalms that are so deep and so profound. You know what I mean? I know the last couple episodes you've been talking about the eagle moments and the hippo moments. And I feel as though, and maybe this is God's way, I've never really learned a lot from the eagle moments until the hippo moments came. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, I acted like that in the eagle moment. But the hippo moment is what taught me. And always be careful about the eagle moment because sooner or later you're going to land.
Yeah, true. When you land, what is it going to look like? It hurts. It's going to hurt. Great reminder. Eagles don't fly forever. That's right. No. That's right. And if you land and it looks like a hippo, then you know what was happening. Right.
That's right. So here, thank goodness, David doesn't land like a hippo because he goes from being a hippo to being an eagle. Because God takes him from there. He departed from there.
This is 1 Samuel 22 one. And he escaped to the cave of Adalem. And as you know, as he is sitting there waiting at the cave of Adalem, that all the discontented, stressed out, indebted people show up. And he becomes the head over them. And these are the ones who would go out and kill 300 with one spear, kill giants and even kill a lion in a pit on a snowy day. These guys weren't messing around.
No. And this all came from David's foolish behavior in Goth. This all came from that. So somebody today needs to take hope and take heart that if you are in that foolish moment, you're foaming at the mouth and you're doing things that are so contrary to who you know you are, and who God has made you to be, but now you're acting like a fool. Just take heart. The day will end. A new day will begin.
That's right. And God has great things in store for you. I think that's the key right there. Because my human advice would be, don't worry. You're stronger than you think. You'll get out of this. But really that's the truth of what you said is God is coming. God is going to come to your rescue. Right. Just look to him. He's not going to let this be your last day. That's right. This may be a bad day, but he's going to turn it toward something good. Don't lose heart.
So good. David was in his hippo moment era. Oh, yeah. He was firmly in the middle of a hippo moment. But because of that, God led all these people to him. I mean, without that moment, could that have still happened? Yes, of course, God could have still worked it out. But God worked it out in such a way that David still went through the embarrassment and walked out on the other side with these men fighting alongside him. But it was not immediate.
It's not like he left Goth and next thing you know he's at Adalem and all these people are coming. And it's like, oh, okay, so it worked out. Yeah, it all worked out.
I should do that more often. Yeah. I thought for a second there it was going to be really bad. And it's not like that because what happens here is that he had to come right through the... David asked the question, he said, our David, can hippo moments be hippo years? Yeah, I would say so. Unfortunately. David is an unspecified amount of time.
Yeah. Sometimes it can be a decade. Like, yeah, for God that's only a moment, but yeah, for us it could look long.
It could take a little time. But he had to come right through the Elah Valley, the place where he had fought against Goliath. How do you think he was feeling?
Oh, bro, I can't imagine. I was thinking about that. That's really, really poetic that he has to go through that same valley that he, in a sense, conquered the world. Like, we're still talking about David and Goliath today. David, that's like his huge eagle moment and then having to pass through. He's just walking through, seeing those sights and those memories are flooding back. As a hippo.
Yeah. He's not seeing it as an eagle. He's seeing it as a hippo. He hangs his head like, what am I doing?
Right. What did I just do? What's wrong with me? He looks over and sees that younger version of himself dancing and cheering before all Israel and stuff and then having to walk through and that kind of ghost fades away. There's a movie scene there. And there's someone who's listening or watching today who's had that goth moment where you... in your marriage or with your children or with your parents or in your ministry or in your workplace, somewhere you had a moment where, when I say moment, it could be a longer period of time where you did not live up to the person God has made you to be. You are embarrassed of that moment. You are disappointed with yourself. And it may not be like sin.
Right. It may just be where you did something. But now it's like it haunts you. It's like, wow, why did I lose my temper there? Or why did I act so weak? Or why did I not know what to say in that moment? I said something stupid. Now I have to live with that. Or I acted like a fool.
Or I just dropped the ball. Whatever that goth moment is, just know that God is taking you through a journey. That's right. And that is not the end of it.
You have to live through this. So in Psalm 142, it says, a contemplation of David, a prayer when he was in the cave. True. It's funny because we think David... A lot of times we picture David as just that brute or that lucky little boy who killed Goliath, the warrior. But we forget he was very artistically minded. He knew, as he was walking through, what was up. He knew what God was doing.
That's right. So on his way from Goth through Elah Valley, seeing the place, now headed to the cave of Adam, when he sits down there, listen to what he says in Psalm 142. Maybe Ron can read for us. Okay. Verse one starts, I cry out to the Lord with my voice. With my voice to the Lord, I make my supplication. I pour out my complaint before him. I declare before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path.
In the way in which I walk, they have secretly set a snare for me. Look on my right hand and see, for there is no one who acknowledges me. Refuge has failed me. No one cares for my soul. I cried out to you, O Lord. I said, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name. The righteous shall surround me, for you shall deal bountifully with me. It feels like my son just said this to me this morning, like, when he couldn't have a Pop-Tart for breakfast.
Like, this sounds just like heaven. Deliver me from my persecutors, O Lord. No one cares for me.
No one loves me. But, I mean, you know, he's sharing his heart to God. And it's okay when you're coming out of those hippo moments to say, God, I don't know where I messed up. Or maybe I do know where I messed up. And I am so disappointed. And I am so confused. I'm so fearful of the future, apprehensive of what's coming. It's okay to bear your heart to the Lord.
Do that. Yeah, David is not a drama queen. You know what I mean? This is an artistic expression of real emotion over very real life-and-death situations that David has been put through. And he's praying to God. He's saying, God, bring my soul out of prison. What is this prison? The prison of feeling embarrassed? The prison of his own mind. We just did an entire miniseries on this show with Dr. Shah's wife, Nicole.
We did a whole series on stress, trauma, PTSD, all this kind of stuff. We looked at some of those responses where people withdraw and they turn away from God. They lose their worship. They just sink into humiliation and shame.
And they stay there for years and years and years. And I feel like we're seeing through David the example that you guys have set, whereas go to God, run to God, turn to him, and pour your emotions out to him. Don't pour them out online. Don't pour them out on social media and on your family. Don't quickly run and find somebody and dump it on them.
See, that's human nature. I've got to find someone to talk to. Talk to God. Talk to God. You're turning to people who cannot help you. And I love that because God actually answers David. It's not like he's just like, man, that must be really hard. I'm sorry you're going through that. That's the much you're going to get out of me.
No, there is an answer. Maybe we can talk about that on tomorrow's episode to unpack exactly how God answers David and what comes of that. If you guys enjoyed today's episode, write in and let us know at 252-582-5028. Or you can visit us online at ClearViewTodayShow.com. Don't forget, you can partner with us financially on that same website.
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