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It's a fascinating thing to think about, right? Humility is such a key concept throughout the Bible and a key concept that obviously we know that God certainly straight arms—I like the way that Dr. date the word Carson puts that—who's here with me, of course, as we are embracing this idea of humility today. But what caused you to embrace humility, and what changed after that happened? I am so excited to hear the stories today.
866-348-7884 is the number to call in and share. 866-348-7884, the idea being that, you know, sometimes God humbled me. I mean, I can think of numerous occasions, and there's other times that, you know, that I embraced humility just through the work of the Spirit without having to take it on the chin, so to speak. But I can't think of all the beautiful ways that He's humbled me. But honestly, you know, almost every single morning in the Word, fortunately, the Holy Spirit says, you don't know what that means, Robbie. We need to look that up.
We need to do some—I wonder what—I don't understand. That's embracing humility just right there, real simple. King Josiah embraced the Word. When they found the Word, they brought the Word to him. And he was wondering, is the judgment going to happen? And there's this great verse that that they tell King Josiah, because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself, God's not going to bring the judgment on you. There's going to be judgment that comes because of other kings and their sins and the way God's people had reacted toward God.
But Josiah had this tender heart, and he humbled himself. And I loved how you just said that. When I come to the Word of God, I come with, I don't know, rather than, well, let me just see if I can find a verse to prove what I believe. No, I'm coming and I'm having to say, God, open my eyes. Psalms 119, 18. God, open my eyes. I may behold wondrous things from your law.
I want to know what you have for me. But it takes humility to do that, because we, pride is the first sin, and we're arrogant, and we were ego-driven, aren't we? I like to say. Yeah, you were talking about it earlier. For us men out there, maybe there was a time your wife was saying, why don't you stop and ask directions? An hour later, you got humbled.
However that worked. What's your story? What's your comment? When it comes to this whole idea of embracing humility, and what happened, what changed as a result?
866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. So you may wonder, gee, how did we end up with this topic? Well, this morning, speaking of humility, I have been enamored with this tunnel that I got to visit when I was in Jerusalem a few weeks ago. I knew it was there, did not realize it still existed, and I certainly did not realize that water still flows to this day through Hezekiah's tunnel for nearly a half a mile under the city of David, and you can go down in that tunnel, kind of like Indiana Jones, and you go in at the Gihon, where the spring is flowing, where Hezekiah armed it so that it would protect it during the siege of Sennacherib, and it flows clearly downhill all the way to the Pool of Siloam. And so when Jesus asked the man to go dip in the Pool of Siloam, this is a really cool picture of things here, because fascinatingly, Gihon, when you really do a word study on that, it is the same word as the river in Eden back in Genesis 2, right?
So here's this, what? Yeah, it's the same word, and some people could even argue that this spring that is in Jerusalem is from that original water source. Okay, that's fascinating to think about, but what's even cooler is that the word Gihon has to do, and very much connected to the word Jordan, okay?
In fact, the last part of the word Gihon is Jordan, same word, but there's something in the beginning of that that has to do with swallowing the Jordan. And in Job 40, 23, go look at it, this is beautiful. Job 40, 23, you've got to get that verse down. Yeah, it's a beautiful picture of God explaining the behemoth to Job.
And again, what's the idea of God explaining the behemoth to Job? Humility. Like, Job, you think you got this stuff figured out?
You don't know, right? Talk about the ultimate humility, man. And by the way, it worked to humble me. That very set of chapters got me. But anyway, it says that the behemoth is gonna swallow the Jordan, or as it says in the Psalms, that it is gonna deliver the Jordan.
It's a fascinating thing, like you would deliver a baby. Well, if you think about it, okay, that the Jordan, the idea of the river Jordan, and that word in Hebrew means to descend, and it's descending from Mount Hermon, one of the highest, right? All the way down to the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on the planet Earth. So the Jordan is a descending river, and the picture of that is the Holy Spirit descended. Now, as we get this picture of descending, we get the picture of humility, right? And this idea of how cool. Well, when you think about this water flowing through underneath the City of David, it is descending, and it is very much related to the Jordan because it has got the end of the Jordan's name in it.
It's a really amazing picture. And it's flowing in the secret place. In other words, it was flowing so that nobody would know where it was. It's flowing in the secret place.
Well, the Word of God quite often, and Paul even makes reference to being washed by the water of the Word, and we know Jesus is the living water, as is described in the Woman of the Will, so water is often thought about as the Word of God. Well, the picture of that is, I have got to get lower in order for the water to go downhill. In other words, when Hezekiah cut this tunnel, if he had cut it uphill, the water never would have gotten to this lone pool, right?
He had to get, and it is about a 6% angle for this water, which by the way, you walk through this thing, there's no lights, you use flashlights for over a half a mile, it's like Indiana Jones, Tammy was in front of me, it was an amazing journey. But I couldn't get it out of my mind, like there was something going on here, it's like in this secret place, this water is flowing, but you gotta get low enough. And then when you think about Moses being the humblest person that, according to God, on the earth at that time, at least we know, of course, how much water flowed down to Moses?
And certainly the Spirit did, because he ended up, right, a little bit of his spirit went on all 70 elders in Numbers 11. So it's a beautiful picture of this idea of if we get low, then the water will flow. When we go low, the water, the word flows right in, and that becomes a seed, and the seed needs water, so that it'll germinate, and then it begins to grow, and it's going to produce fruit. But it starts with this mindset of being humble, humility. I don't know it all. I'm not all there is.
Right. I love, love, love, and it's worth it. And again, we want, believe me, your calls and your stories. I realize it's not so easy, always, to talk about your humility, but you know... Are you bragging on your humility? Oh yeah, there you go.
We don't want that... Eight, six, six, three, four, eight, seven, eight, eight, four, eight, six, six, three, four, truth. But the story you told about the professor at Liberty that went to Harvard, everybody needs to hear that.
Yeah. I was campus pastor at Liberty, and we put together a meal every now and then for a group of guys to meet with professors just to get to know them. And so we're going to go to a break, and I wanted you to know, don't change the dial, because you're going to love this story about what a professor told us at Liberty. But anyway, what caused you really to embrace humility? And what changed after that?
Eight, six, six, three, four, eight, seven, eight, eight, four. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talked live. Today's question. And I am so excited to hear your call and how you embraced humility. So the question is, what caused you to embrace humility? And what changed after that?
And all sorts of things. And just before we get to Dr. Carson's story, I can tell you that when I was reading the book of Job, this is how I came to God, is that I was humbled as I read that book because I was mad at God because of what he had done to Job, taken out his family and all that, just kind of showing off to Satan. And then he had to put up with these friends for 38 chapters, or Dr. Carson could tell you exactly how long, but I was aggravated. And I was like, really, really, really, really, really? And then all of a sudden, this is the first time reading the book of Job, and all of a sudden God shows up in the cloud and he says, Robbie, since you're so smart, why don't you make it rain?
Or just make it snow one time, and I'd be impressed. All those questions that he asked Job, he was asking me. We talked about great questions in the Bible. Those were the questions that led to my salvation because of what? I realized, oh my gosh, I'm not God. There is a God. I'm not him.
And he obviously has a really high standard. I'm in big trouble. And all those explanations that he goes into, Leviathan, Behemoth, all that, to give Job a picture and to give me a picture of, wow, wow, wow, I don't understand. I really don't have answers.
I really need answers. Like, oh my goodness. And all of a sudden, the rest of the Bible became extremely rich. But again, getting back to Harvard before we digress too far. Yeah.
I know that I don't know. That's a statement of humility. And when we were at Liberty, we put a group of guys together for dinner one night. And I had different professors sitting at the table. And one of the professors sitting there, I knew, had graduated from Harvard.
And so I came to the table. I asked the guys, I said, have you all talked to our wonderful professor here about where he went to college? And they said, no.
I said, well, maybe one of you want to ask him. And finally, one of them said, so, sir, where did you attend school? And he said, I graduated from Harvard.
And this is back in the 90s. And even now, we've got a little tiff going on with University of Harvard. But, you know, when we think of Harvard, it always seems to think, this is a place where there are lots of smart people. I mean, they really are the cream of the crop. They know all the different details.
In fact, I actually would tell you, you know, prior to this conversation that I know is happening, I would have said, talk about arrogance. Those professors are the most arrogant people. They think they have it figured out.
They've got it all figured out. So the question then went to a professor. What did you think about your professors at Harvard? And he said, well, they were the most humble people I've ever been around. And that just shocked us. Like, what do you mean, Harvard professors are humble?
Explain, why did you think that? He said, because professors at Harvard are on the cutting edge of all different fields. And they know they don't know it all. They are humble because they realize as they come, they haven't been able to figure out everything. They have not yet been able to come up with the cure for cancer. They haven't figured out the perfect economic system.
They don't know how to keep a person totally healthy. And there's just something about, you know what, I have much more to learn. To get up every day with a thought, there's more to know about God.
There's more to know how I can be a better vessel for Him. It's very humbling. And that was a moving moment there to hear this professor talk about, while everybody would think they're arrogant, when you begin to realize, I know that I don't know, and I don't know all I need to know about God, but I do want to know Him. And the Bible says, humble yourself and draw near to God.
Okay? If I want to know God, it's got to be that mindset. I'm going to humble myself and say, okay, God, you are God, and I want to know you. And when you draw near to God, guess what He does, He draws near to you. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. As long as you're not up above Him. And so it's a really neat idea that as we lift God up, as we bless God, as we lift Him up, you know, obviously once again, the water can flow downhill.
It's a beautiful idea. And so the question is, when and what caused you? Like, what was the story? We would love to hear it. To embrace humility.
And what changed after that? 866-348-7884, 866-344 truth. And, you know, the nice thing is these come in all shapes and sizes, don't they, Doc?
Yes. And you're not bragging and telling your story here. There is a, I just want to tell you how great I am, but what we're asking you to do is call and just share with the rest of our listeners how God worked in your life. As you read through the New Testament, again, we have call after call to humble ourselves. Sometimes God does the humbling. Manassas. King Manassas was wicked, and God got his attention.
Nebuchadnezzar, he was arrogant, built a statue to himself. God got his attention. Sometimes God will do that.
Yeah, eating grass in the front yard would get you in. Such a cool picture. But the beauty of what he wrote afterwards is amazing, right? Yes. But his son, interestingly, Daniel 5 22 says, but you, his son, Belteshazzar, have not humbled your heart. You haven't humbled your heart. So there is a work that we do, making a decision. It's a decision. I'm going to realize who I am is not all that. I think it was Rick Warren with his Purpose Driven book, There is a God. You just said it. There is a God, and I'm not him.
That's a conscious decision. I'm realizing that I'm a human and that I am in need of something, and I need a relationship with God. And it is tough for men, I think more than women, but men to, we've got that ego, and I define ego as edging God out. I don't know if you've ever heard that, Robbie, edging God out.
And you know what we need to be doing? We need to be exalting God only. That needs to be what ego is all about, because when we exalt him, then he's able to use us, because it's not for our glory that we do anything.
It's for his glory. Yeah, it's an interesting balance between when you asked earlier before the show, what's the difference between cockiness and confidence and that idea of like, wow. And I'm just going to answer that from my perspective, that confidence comes from faith. Yes.
In? In God. In God's purpose that he may have you on and all those things, but obviously there's a sense of moving forward, knowing that he's not going to lead me or forsake me, but also that I can see that God's purposes in this particular situation may be. Because I've walked through some pretty scary places in faith, and people say, well, you look like you were complete.
I was terrified. Okay, you can say whatever you want to. That was not necessarily the way I felt about it.
It may have been the way you read that. But nonetheless, however, you know, cockiness comes from self-determination. Anything that you, whether you want to say, you know, self-advancement, self-confidence, you know, all those self words. Wow.
Yeah. I think there was a country song about, I want to talk about me, and I just want to tell you how great I am, and I can handle all of this. That's cockiness. 866-348-7884, the number call in and share what caused you to embrace humility and what changed after that. Or maybe just have a comment on the whole subject or a scripture that means something to you. We'd love to hear it.
866-348-7884. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Today's question, what caused you to embrace humility, right?
And what changed after that? I love that you have an opportunity to share these, and I think it's going to be amazing. Everybody that would, 866-348-7884, I would love to talk with you. 866-348-7884, and I can't even, you know, I doubt there's a day that we can't buy that he doesn't allow us to embrace humility in some way, you know, that my wife is really good at helping me embrace humility. And just as simple as this, right? Robbie, did you wash your hands? And I always think about that, my favorite line in Snow White, where she asked the seven dwarfs that they washed their hands before they ate, and the seven dwarfs said, recently? Anyway, a minute ago you were quoting a proverb, and it said, pride comes before. Yeah, when pride comes, then comes shame. But with the humble is wisdom. And again, the fool is a know-it-all.
That's one of his great descriptions. He knows it all, and you know he knows it all, because he tells you he knows it all. But the person who has wisdom has come to that place, they understand, I know that I don't know, and I have a hunger and a thirst to want to know. And so the humble is going to get wisdom, and we define wisdom as seeing life from God's perspective. We call wisdom heavenly insight for earthly living.
And so do I want to know what God has to say about how I live? When we think of the Christian virtues, that's faith, hope, and love, but humility is in this list. In Colossians chapter 3, Paul writes that we're to put on, we're to put on tender mercies, and we're to put on kindness, but he also says we're to put on humility. Part of our clothing, Peter says we're to be clothed in humility. I wonder if we got a listener who wants to chime in on that, on what does it look like to be clothed in humility? Does that mean we walk around like we're a doormat? Because I don't think being a doormat is the idea of being humble. I see humility being lived out, that I'm not thinking thinking less of myself, I'm just not thinking about myself.
It's a big difference. Darrell Bock So I was thinking, you know, Proverbs 16, 18 says, Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. So a lot of people say pride comes before fall.
It's the haughty spirit. Nonetheless, the thing you think about it is how good, once you've fallen, you are now in a lower position. However you want to look at it, you're in a way better position once you're down. You know, when you're up there, you're not in good shape. You think you might be, but unfortunately, you know, it's a dangerous thing. But now that you've fallen, you're actually... Paul Jay Learn something while you're down there. Darrell Bock John Maxwell wrote a book, Fail Forward.
And so that was that. Hey, when you fall down there, well learn something about it. What caused you to fall?
Paul Jay And I'll tell you a good one that, you know, taught me a lesson that I know has probably saved lots of lives. That, you know, when I was in the car business all my life, like most people know, and so I was, you know, selling cars and stuff. I was in and out of cars 100 times a day, and I thought seat belts were immature.
Like, why would anybody wear those, right? And so, you know, this was back before car seats were real popular or anything like that. I'll just show you how old I was. My son was standing literally in the front seat of the car on the pastor's side. I was not wearing my seat belt, neither was he.
Obviously, at this point in time, he was probably seven or eight. And we're at a stoplight, right? And I'm looking at my rear view mirror, and I saw the car coming that they wasn't going to stop at the stoplight and hit us at the back. And so, you know, I put my arm out as if that was going to do any good as I watched my son go slamming into the dashboard. And as I saw that I was going forward into the steering wheel, there was not a thing in the world that could stop that. Fortunately, he was not hurt badly at all. And I wasn't.
But you can bet your beepy. I realized, like, I was humbled. Like, oh, my goodness, there is nothing in the world you are going to do to stop that person in that other seat from going through the windshield. And, you know, if there's a bad accident of some kind, and certainly there was nothing I could do to keep me from going to the windshield.
So I've done numerous, I mean, numerous shows on the Christian Car Guys show about this. And I can't tell you how many times, and it's almost like you can count on it, that an ambulance driver will call in and they will tell you they've never unbuckled a dead man. Well, you know, we were in a wreck, well over a year ago, and my daughter was sitting in the back seat. And we had the seat belts on, it's now law and stuff, and the airbags came out, but she was sitting in the back seat. And my first thought as we're now settling, is Katie okay? Is Katie okay? And I'm looking back, Katie, are you okay? And she said, oh, yeah, I'm okay. Because she had a seat belt on. And I'm like, you have a seat belt on in the back seat? She said, yes, that's part of the law, dad.
And she had seen a commercial that caused her to realize how important it was to wear a seat belt in the back seat. And how does this play out with humility? I think there's a component where we want to live a life of independence. And a life where we think we have some kind of control.
Yes. And so to be dependent on something else, and when we think about spiritual maturity, if we got into a discussion, how do you know a person's becoming spiritually mature? Well, how do you know a person's becoming, let's say physically mature, emotionally mature, as students are graduating from high school right now? Are they mature? Well, I want to raise my children to be mature. That means they would be independent of me.
I want to get them to the place they can live on their own. That's my job as a dad. That's the human side of it. Spiritually, we start off life independent of God, and the spiritual mature person grows more in dependence on God. So if you told me today, I got up this morning and I needed God more than I did yesterday, I'm cheering you on.
That's awesome. That means you're maturing to the place you're realizing, I can't handle this life. I shouldn't be handling this life. I need to be totally plugged into God, abide in him, and you'll bring forth much fruit.
The idea of being dependent on God, it goes against our human nature. But the spiritual nature should be, God, I need you, I want you, and I'm becoming more dependent on you. And Hezekiah, the Hezekiah tunnel, Hezekiah found himself on his knees after deeds of faithfulness, Robbie, Sennacherib showed up. And all of a sudden he's on his knees with a letter says, hey, you got to surrender, God, I need help.
I need help like I've never needed help before. And we see a great growth in his spiritual maturity because of how he and Isaiah just called on God to deliver them. And I'm getting humbled right now because I thought it was Sennacherib. But the way you said it, Zach, I thought it was Sennacherib. You made me write, and I'm in. And you're saying, I like the way you said it.
I think it's cool. But nonetheless, you're talking about dependency on God. I couldn't help but remember, and I heard this on a Christian radio show one time about this man that lost his wife. And he said, after my wife was gone, and clearly it led to more dependence on God because there he was.
And I don't look forward to that or whichever way it works. It's kind of scary. And he said, it was like I would pick up the phone and I would call God. And we would stay on the phone longer and longer.
And he said, and then it got to the point that we never hung up. I'm like, yeah, wouldn't that be amazing? That's the place. And I've always said that. When I heard that, it went down in my soul.
I've never forgotten it. And I've always said, God, can I have that? And what stands in the way of that is Robbie taking control.
Robbie taking the wheel, right? Oh, well, we're good from here. Yeah. Practicing the presence of God 24-7. Pray without ceasing. Yeah, get up in the morning, have prayer, have a noontime prayer, evening prayer. But Paul came along and said, this Christian life is about praying without ceasing. And total dependence, even right now as we do the show, I'm shooting prayers up to heaven. I'm praying for some callers.
We want to hear your story. 1-866-348-7884. I'm starting to say that number in my sleep, Robbie. There you go. So, you know, some other ways you could put that is when was your lowest point where God, this is your lowest point where God didn't reject you, but he met you.
Or perhaps, right? When was the moment God humbled you? When was that moment? Like God humbled you and what changed after that? Or even, you know, what does humility cost you?
And what did it give you in return? You know, athletics can be very humbling. We've seen professional football players drop a pass in the end zone during the Super Bowl that would have won them the game. Here's a hockey goalie and all of a sudden in the opponent's arena gives up that goal and everybody's screaming and you're the one that just let that fuck go in. It's humbling.
Everybody's waiting for you to hit the home run and you strike out. God has ways of reminding us we don't have supernatural abilities. We need God's abilities. We need His help. Yeah, and it's pretty cool that we get to tune in at whatever point, you know, that that we want to lower ourselves and raise Him. So we got one more segment. And oh, I was hoping for some great stories.
So we still got plenty of time. 866-348-7884. When did you have that opportunity to see the advantage of humility? 866-348-7884. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Today's question is, what caused you?
What caused you to embrace humility and what changed as a result of that? You know, we are waiting on your call. 866-348-7884. We've had so much fun talking about this, but I want to also just kind of tell you that I am so blessed for the last few days to have, and of course over the last months, to have Dr. Date, the word Carson, with me. And, you know, the wonderful gift that he was given to love the Word of God the way he does, and the gift he was given to be able to memorize Scripture references, et cetera, to the point that he can give you your birthday verse on demand.
Like, just whatever it is your birthday is, like me, 1030, he just come right off the cuff with Mark 1030, which I like. Oh my goodness, it's such a beautiful verse. And so he has this amazing app, he has this amazing website, and so I want to let him speak a minute about that, because if you don't have this resource, like, it's an amazing way to witness in all humility. It just is. Well, thank you, Robbie.
The www.datetheword.com is a website, and every day we have a daily devotion on there, and that matches whatever the today's date is. We went with Daniel 6-3 today, that Daniel distinguished himself. Wow. He distinguished himself among all the other leaders there in the new reign, and it's said that he did so because he had an excellent spirit, or he had exceptional qualities. And what causes you to be distinguished among your peers? And that integrity will do that. Humility will do that. So www.datetheword.com, the app, we get more and more people downloading that.
Just go to your app store, it's Date the Word. And one of the things we're featuring in the month of June is characteristics of men from the book of Proverbs. So every day there's two verses that will talk to you about what a man should be or should not be, because Proverbs deals with both sides. And so for today there's a verse from verse 3, Proverbs 22, 3, the prudent man.
But then there's another verse I'm trying to remember, but it was the foolish man. And so you get that contrast there. But I appreciate you saying the word. Oh yeah, it's an amazing thing, because you meet somebody, a really nice server, or maybe a difficult server, whatever the situation may be at the table, at a restaurant, and you say, hey, when's your birthday? And if you got it through a Date Word app, you can just give them their Bible verse for their birthday. And it's amazing, having eaten lunch or dinner with Dr. Carson many times, you will have an opportunity to see how excited people are to receive this. And it just is a natural way to begin to talk about wonderful things, spiritual things, and certainly the Word of God. And we're working on the component of witnessing, because then you can say not only when's your physical birthday, but do you have a date for your second birth?
And we throw that question out there. And if they don't know what the second birth is, you're ready now to witness and share the great news about how a person can be born again. That's amazing. So we got Mike, he's in Dayton, Ohio. So Mike, what caused you to embrace humility, and what changed after that? Well, seeing my dad embrace it. My dad, you know, he got saved.
And when I seen him get saved, and it changed him. How old were you when that happened, Mike? He was about 12 years old.
I was 12 years old, and 12, 13. And I seen my dad, you know, he was when his friend was bringing, well, it wasn't his friend, but he brought home tracks every day, and from this friend, and how my dad started to change, you know, by reading them, and being, and Bill Timpton being a friend with him. And my dad would tell me about it all the time, the whole time, the whole time he was witnessing to him.
He was really just telling me everything that he would, he was doing, and what he was saying. And, you know, one Sunday, they went to church, and I didn't. And I said, you know, God, I need you, just like my dad needs you. And that's when I, you know, realized when I was all by myself at home, and I humbled myself in front of God. And, you know, I said, God, I need you. And when my parents came back, I didn't even say nothing to them. They says, man, something's changed with you, Mike.
You're just saying okay to us. You embraced humility, it sounds like. Yeah, and, you know, you kind of do that all throughout your whole life, long as you're seeking after God, you know.
There's been many, many times where God has, you know, humbled me, and I relied on him. I do have a story once when I came back to Ohio, and I was, came to this builder, and he wanted me to do the whole house, set the cabinets and everything. And I never set cabinets before, and the guy says, well, you can do staircases, but you can't set cabinets.
I said, no. And he laughed, and he walked out the door. So I sat on a bucket, and I was praying to God. I said, God, please, I don't know where to start, how to do this, what to do. And God said, open up this box over here, open this box. So I opened up the box, and I looked inside the cabinet, and there was a how to do book from start to finish, how to set cabinets.
And I sat there, and I read that whole thing that, you know, and they didn't have Google back then, you know, they didn't have a phone, they didn't have any of that stuff. I had, you know, you had people taught you how to do things, you know, and that book was in there, and it was a pretty big book, and I sat and read it. I set the cabinets, and the builder came back and said, oh, you told me you didn't know how to set cabinets.
It looks like you know how to, it looks really nice. And I said, well, this is my first time, and he laughed, and then he says, okay, right, you know, and he walked out the door. That reminds me, I think it's the legend of Zorro. Anyway, the movie was Zorro, not the TV show we all enjoyed as a kid, but the movie, there's a point in it where it says, and this is great stuff, it says, when the student is ready, the master will appear.
Yes. And there's the point where you admit, man, I need some help. And then all of a sudden, the master will appear. And then so many points in your life, right, that when you were ready, but water does not flow uphill. It just doesn't.
No. You know, you put those pillars in front of you, though, you know what I mean, that that was one of them, you know, and there's other things in my life where God has came through for me here came through for me there. And you kind of remind yourself all the time. Okay, now, why ain't I relying on God here, when he's already came through me over and over again, you know, and you just say, God helped me here. And that's, that's faith, right? Yeah, that's faith. Yeah.
Yeah. By reading the word and praying and all those things, help you to humble yourself to towards God and, and, and rely on him day after day, you know, this is the day the Lord has made, and I'll be glad in it. This is what I'm going to pay attention to what he wants me to do, and how he wants me to do it. You know, what, what do you have in store for me today, God, you know, or a chapter yesterday, I had to jump in there and, and use that one this morning, you know, like, man, thank you, God, this you made this day for me. Mike told me.
That's right. This is the day the Lord has made. I loved it.
I loved it. You know, I get to get to know him more. I get to serve him more. And what do you have for me today? You're impacting us, Mike.
That's good stuff. Well, you know, we might fail, you know, I mean, oh, we will. That's not might, unfortunately, or fortunately, because, you know, it every I don't know whether I heard this from you, Dr. Carr, I heard it just this week that this man was talking about what you don't lose, you learn. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you learn. Maxwell quote, but you're gonna, you're either gonna win or you're gonna learn. In other words, if you win, that is not necessarily the greatest learning experience, but to lose is is an opportunity to reevaluate to consider. But it depends on how you define losing because, you know, based on because if you learn from the loss, you haven't lost, it's gonna make you better and stronger.
And come back for another day. My dad always says you're either gonna learn or you're gonna learn the hard way. Which way do you want to learn today? Yeah, which way you want to learn today?
You want to learn the hard way or you want to learn the easy way? Yeah, it was just like I was listening to the I forget whether it was which one of the many wonderful speakers that we were making some example and he said, you know, God will have the last word. That was the thing, you know, like, yeah, he definitely and there's a song everybody talks to God. I don't know if you ever heard it, but it's kind of funny because this guy is complaining to this guy why he shouldn't pray, you know, and at the end, he says, my friend, you know, everybody will because you're wasting your time talking to God. He's not there. He goes, Oh, everybody will talk to God.
Whether you believe it or not, it does. That's immaterial because he he will be talking to you. And there will be some explaining going on. And there will be the day that you will confess that Jesus is Lord.
I do it willingly. Some people will find out the hard way, as you said, Mike, because every tongue is going to confess that he is Lord. Yeah. And that idea is actually beautiful from the standpoint that we know the truth, the truth. Yeah. This is what will come out in the end. Always, always. Thank you, Mike, for your call. As always loved it. And all of us as we embrace humility this evening, I hope you have an amazing night. Tomorrow we'll have Peter Rosenberg on Truth Talk Live and Dr. Carson's out on an adventure. And in Thursday's Dr. Joy Oh, stay tuned. So much truth coming at you.
