The Joy Ride #132

This is the Truth Network. In this podcast, you will hear funny stories, exchanges, and thought-provoking moments that will amuse you, make you smile, and draw you closer to Jesus Christ in your journey of life. The tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances.

I got a lot of problems with you people. Now you're going to hear about it. Ah, the familiar sound of loved ones disappointing you.

Hey Joyriders, welcome to a brand new episode. So what do you do when a loved one disappoints you or you've let a loved one down? I mean, let's face it, we've all let someone down before. Take me for example. I've disappointed friends and have let down my family dozens of times.

You sounded way too proud admitting that. Okay, but tell you what, why don't we run that line again? Cut. Okay, people, let's go again.

This is Keith is a massive disappointment to everyone. Take two. And cue rain. Bring up the music.

And action. Take me for example. I've disappointed friends and let down my family dozens of times. Cut. That was perfect.

Okay, let's bring in the stunt double for the crying scene. So what do you do when a loved one disappoints you? Well, you'll just have to listen to the masculine journey to find out. So no answers here today.

Sorry to disappoint you. Yeah, there's a lot in this topic and I think we'll spend some of the rest of time talking about, okay, how do you navigate through these situations? I think one of the things that Darren helped me see better than probably anybody was that we're really good at assigning motives to other people's actions. Making judgments really is what we're doing.

And when we don't know the whole story and when we don't focus on, okay, I know their heart's good or, God, I need you to lead me in this, we're open for all the enemy's false evidence. And so he hits on our fears. And so he's right in the midst of that and he's called the accuser of the brethren because he's good at it. That's what he does. That's what he's always done. He's much better at it than we'll ever be at not being bad at it.

I mean, he's going to be good, but so how do we combat that? I love what you said because, you know, what happens to me is my mind will start running scripts. I needed to say this and I needed to say that all of a sudden my mind can't go anywhere but scripts.

And it's like for me now, having walked with you guys for a while, because I know I'm running scripts, it's like the check engine light flashing. Robby, you need a father here? No, you've heard enough of what you think. Oh, I think I've heard enough of what I think.

Why don't I check with the big guy? All right, yeah. Yeah, back to what Art said, lean not on your own understanding. There you go.

It's true. One of the things that I think God's been pointing me toward is, we talk about it a lot at boot camp, is am I living in the smaller story or am I living in the larger story? Because if I'm in the smaller story, I stay disappointed and I don't see the other information we've talked about. But if I can just stop and be still long enough to maybe let God show me the bigger picture and see what Opie's heart really was or what Robby's heart was, and know that the people around me, my children, my wife, my parents, my siblings, their hearts are good. And so it takes away the scripts, if you will, because you're not the only one that plays those. I play full movies sometimes. Just saying. I'm judged, you're everything. I've got it all worked out. Jailer, bailiff. That's the main reason I can't sleep at night, because all of a sudden they start running. That's the time for me that they just have to hit, is right when you're going to bed, everything's calming, and it's like boom, boom, boom, boom, one thing after another. We call it the committee. From the guys on Mastering the Journey, I'm Keith, and we'll see you down the road.