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Welcome to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you today. Happy New Year! Even though there's a lot of unsettledness in uh our country and worldwide and certainly today in Minnesota.
We are beginning this new year, and I've been out for a couple of weeks as we've done other things for New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve, but glad to be with you. 866-866666666666 34 truth Eight six six three four Eight. 78, 84, if you want to weigh in on anything, but I want to specifically address. A couple of things, then we'll get into the meat of the program here and your calls and everything else. The calendar flips.
But One of the only differences for so many of us and most of you know I do a radio program for caregivers on this network as well. Is that the only difference between December 31st and January 1st is the deductible resets. You know, you gotta meet your copay and all that kind of stuff, or you got a new insurance card or whatever. And uh for many families Reality doesn't reset at all. The New Year looks just like the old.
and maybe even the one before that and the one before that. Same diagnosis. same disability. Same chronic pain. same responsibilities.
Same long road. New Year Same battle, and I know that many of you are weary of the battle. You didn't choose it. You didn't ask for it. And you've been faithful for a long time, and you're tired.
You've been doing this, been there, done that. And I get that. And as I look at the things, the battles going on in the landscape of our country, even just this shooting today in Minneapolis, Um there's a weariness to the battle. When is this going to stop? When are we going to have peace and settlement.
Those are hard questions, and they're valid questions. But let me take you to a passage in Scripture that's been on my mind today. I've been watching Uh a lot of things happening simultaneously in the news today. With Philip Yancey and with others. It's just there's all you do is just grieve, it seems like.
We just every day we wake up and there's more to grieve over. But I do think that's part of being. of the Christians. is that we start seeing the world for the brokenness that it is. And we groaned.
And the the longer we walk with Christ I think we'll find that we groan more, because guess what? The Holy Spirit groans. All of creation is groaning. And I think that's part of our journey is to see it. more clearly on how busted up everything is, and how marred everything is by sin, how infested sin has the far you know, and Joy to the World, we sing it at Christmastime, but it was not written as a Christmas hymn.
And Isaac Watson wrote that lyric, Far as the Curse is Found. And the curse is everywhere. It's in Minneapolis today. It's in my own life. It's in everywhere.
It's everywhere. But the good news of the gospel is that he has come and he is redeeming he has redeemed us and he is going to redeem all of this. I don't understand it, but I know that we get weary of the battle. But I want to take you to a place in 2 Samuel. Chapter 11, verse 1.
It is one of the saddest Scriptures. to me and all of all of the Bible. In the spring of the year. the time when kings go out to battle. David sent Joab and his servants with him.
and all Israel. and they ravaged the Ammonites. and besieged Raba. But David remained at Jerusalem. That last sentence gets me every time.
And you see the opening, it's like the Lord of the Rings. Remember in the Fellowship of the Rings, that opening scene when they're going out to fight Sauron, and the music swells, and the armies gather, and armor is strapped on, and the swords are drawn, and the forces are everybody's moving to this great conflict. This is the moment when kings go out to battle, and then the camera cuts. Everyone else is marching into danger. And the king is on his couch.
Verse 2 continues It happened late one afternoon when David arose from his couch and and was walking on the roof of the king's house. Everybody else is fighting. Everybody else is waging more, doing what is necessary to protect Israel. But the king was lying on his couch. Late afternoon A couch, a rooftop.
No urgency, no watchfulness, no sense of calling, no sense of obedience. And that's what makes this so heartbreaking. This is David. He was the giant killer. The warrior poet, the man after God's own heart, King Saul tried to kill him.
But he couldn't. Thousands of Philistines fought against him and failed. Caves, spears, betrayals, exile, years of danger, none of it defeated David. Remember, they yelled out: Saul has killed his thousands, David his ten thousands. What Saul couldn't do to David What entire armies could not do to David David Did.
to himself. And that's the warning. David's real enemy wasn't Saul. It wasn't Philistines it wasn't exhaustion It wasn't even temptation. It was sin.
And sin didn't begin on the rooftop. It began on the couch. It began when David stepped away from the battle that he was called to fight.
Now here's why this matters for us. Especially right now. A lot in this audience are tired of the battle, whatever battle God has called you to fight. You may be a caregiver. You may be waging against an affliction of your own.
You may be a minister at a church that is in all kinds of conflict, or you are just so tired. You may be a Sunday school teacher, you may be a teacher. You may be a law enforcement officer, whatever it is that you're called to do. You've been fighting it for years. And you've been showing up.
You've been faithful. And then somewhere deep down you maybe think, I I just want to sit this one out. And that makes sense, and I get it, we all are weary. But Scripture teaches us that something is different going on. It runs against our instincts.
Sometimes The battle. is the safest place to be. David wasn't in danger on the battlefield. David was in danger. when he disengaged.
when he was disobedient. When Scripture says the time when kings go out to battle. It's reminding us that every season has an assignment. when we abandon the assignment we don't step in to rest. We step into vulnerability.
This is especially important for us as caregivers. Caregiving isn't a battle you get medals for. There are no parades. When's the last time you saw a caregiver convention where they recognized the caregiver of the year? There's no applause.
There's no j there. There's none of that. Just endurance. Showing up again. Pastors are like this.
Every October, they have Pastor Appreciation Day, and people send a card, or maybe they give a little gift, or whatever. But most of you pastors out there listening right now Don't feel very appreciated. I know. I'm the son of a pastor. I watched him.
And that's not why you do it, to be appreciated. You do it because it's your calling, it's who you are, teachers. How many of you teachers feel like what you're doing is sometimes in vain? You're dealing with kids that are just a mess. You're dealing with parents that are even more of a mess.
How many of you in law enforcement? There's so many different nurses, doctors, surgeons, it just never stops. And you get tired. But obedience, even when you're weary, is still the safest place. You can stand.
David did not fall. Because the battle was too hard. He fell because he left the battle. altogether. The safest place to be sometimes is in the battle.
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This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you today, 866-34-TRUTH 866. three four eight Seventy eight eighty four if you want away. And did you hear Johnny Santatos. uh bit that she just did And Johnny's a a dear friend.
She she echoed exactly what we're talking about in the first block there. It it's that we get weary of this. You don't think she gets weary? She's been in that wheelchair since Lyndon Johnson was president.
Okay, she got paralyzed in nineteen sixty seven. It it's astonishing. what she's endured. And I live with somebody who's been hurt since 1983. Ronald Reagan was president his first term.
Michael Reagan just passed away. We got to Gracie Sang for an event with Michael Reagan many years ago, and then we were on his program, and just a wonderful man. And um You know, but but you think about the longevity of that. of non stop disability, non-stop suffering, non-stop Battle. In the spring when the kings went out to war.
David stayed home. And I know he was tired. He'd been fighting a long time. Saul chased him all over the kingdom.
Well, David was anointed king and and David was dealing with that reality, and then the Philistines and and and so much. death and battle and fighting had he had been consumed with it. One of the reasons he couldn't Um Build the temple. God wouldn't let him do it. He said, You're too bloody.
But after all he had done He stayed home from the battle. Yeah, I'm taking a break. And he not only committed adultery, He committed murder. It it it took It to it just took seconds. For to all come crashing into this horrible place.
Sometimes the safest place for us to be Is in the battle. And I know Johnny would say that, and Gracie as well. would say that Yes, these afflictions that we deal with are tough, and they are hard. And you know you you just get weary of this. Gracie gets weary of having to ask me.
to bring her something, water or whatever. She gets weary of this. But it's in those moments that we go to Scripture. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, Hebrews 12:1. Galatians 6:9, let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up.
Up. E endurance is formed. It's not discovering. Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Romans five, three through four, James twelve one, two through four.
The testing of your faith produces steadfastness. None of this is escaping God's eye. And when you are weary like this. And like so many of you are, I've talked to you, I get letters from you.
Some are just bone-weary, and we're starting a new year, and it seems like, oh. We're still tired from the last one. Whereas some people get real excited and the fireworks go off. How many actually stayed up and watched the New Year come in? How many of you how many just raise our hands?
How many of you all actually did that? I I was happy to see twenty twenty five go. Don't want to look back at it. I've got other things to do. And there are days when I am I'm Bone tired.
You can't be a caregiver for 40 years for somebody with severe disabilities and not get tired. And not just tired physically. You're tired of all of it. It just it weighs on you, looking at the bills. Like I said, the insurance deductible is the only thing different between twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six.
and you look at the bills and you look at all these things, and then you have to ask yourself, A very important question And I I wrote about this. I d I do a weekly article for Blaise Media. Um for caregivers and it's um in my Sunday b every Sunday. And Johnny actually called me up while we were in the hospital last year for five months. And she was talking to me and she said, How how you know, how are you dealing with this, Peter?
And a lot of people ask about Gracie, and then a few people ask about me, but when Johnny asked about anything, Uh hoop. level of understanding of suffering warrants A very frank, candid, thoughtful answer. I I can't give a stock answer. You know, say, Well, you know, Gracie's doing okay, we're you know, we're we're getting there, that kind of thing, or I'm I'm handling this okay, I'm fine. I mean, you know, the kind of things we we uh offer to people when they really can't process what it is that we carry.
But when Johnny asks I'm gonna answer. And I wrote about this in this article. And I referenced it. I grew up in a confessing church. And that that means we we confess a creed, if you will.
Uh uh uh A like the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed. It's a statement of faith. It's where we plant a flag. This is what... We are stating.
and what we're staking our life on it. We're not coming up with some kind of improvisation of um Well, this is what we feel the Lord Lord's going to give me my breakthrough. You know. You know how they are on health and wealth sh stuff, the shows that they do, and it's all you're gonna you're gonna get a step up. The Lord's gonna break through.
He's you know, you got the victory, we're gonna pronou pronounce victory. That stuff is that's for children, and I don't mean childlike, like Jesus said, Come as a child, that's childish. I mean, that's that's to me that that's almost insulting to to watch that kind of stuff. And I don't really have a lot of patience for it.
So when you say this creed, this is what you're saying. But we're saying this in a sanctuary, and the pastor would come in before we said this as a congregation, we'd stand up, and the pastor would look at us and say, Christian. What do you believe?
So when Johnny asked me, he said, how are you dealing with this? I told her about that. I said he would he would ask, Christian, what do you believe? And as I'm looking at Gracie through the window there at the ICU, this woman who has stood with Presidents And and I I I see her brought down so low. and this has been going on for so long.
And I'm in my I don't know how many times I've been in the ICU. There's one of those rare moments in the ICU when I was standing there kind of by myself. All the other nurses were or doctors were inside with other patients and the pods and so forth. And I was there right there in that kind of central area and I was just by myself and I'm looking at Gracie through the glass. And this time there was no pastor asking me.
There was me asking me, Christian. What do you believe?
I was weary. But I said, Christian, what do you believe? I believe in God the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven and earth. and in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord.
You know, and when you start, and sometimes it's hard to remember all of those things. I mean, the nice increase is a long one, it's hard to remember that. But you can distill it all down to one thing. if he is lord at all. Then he is Lord of all.
Christian, what do you believe? And when our weariness causes us to stay home from the battle. That is when we are the most vulnerable. We're not going to get rest. We're gonna get attacked.
in a way that we may not be prepared to fight. When we are obedient to what God has called us to do, When we are obedient, To whatever cross. that we are carrying. Just as Jesus was obedient. He fought the battle.
He went all the way. To call to Galgartha. And You know, you you You you I I see this over and over and over. And one of the things that just breaks my heart is when I see pastors. who were so burned out.
Ministers in the church, elders in the church, deacons in the church, people who are elbows deep. into the heartache of other people, and they are weary beyond belief. And they they sometimes always want to sit one out. And I certainly get that. And maybe you're that person today.
And I just want to tell you that the safest place is often in the thick of the battle. No matter how tired you are. When I read about this with David and I see all I've been watching on Prime, I don't know if you've seen it or not, House of David, and it's pretty good. It's not great in the sense of biblical accuracy, but it's pretty good. But when you see all the things that David's doing and you know where this is going to go You just grow.
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Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed? Are you feeling discouraged? Are you feeling you don't even know where to start? I've got something for you. I put out at my website, hopeforthecaregiver.com.
You'll see Caregiver 911 right at the top there. Just click on that. take YouTube page and and just I've got a ton of things out there. that will help Anchor you back. You remember in Indiana Jones And the Last Crusade when Sean Connery played his father.
I named a dog, Indiana. And uh, you know, he um they they went looking for those um they had the three tests as they were trying to find the cup of Christ and and uh on the Last Crusade and and they had those three tests that he had to do and one of them was stepping on those stones And to spell out the name of God. And if you stepped on the wrong stone, you would crash down. into this huge abyss and die, that kind of thing. And sometimes we just need somebody to say, Here, stand right here.
When the whole world is pressing in on you. Stand on this. Stand here. And so much of Scripture is focussed on us learning to to to quell our own heart. By reminding ourselves of the greatness of God.
You know, Lamentations 3, 31 through 33. The Lord will not cast off forever, for though he cause grief, he will have compassion. And then if you read on in that passage, it says, His mercies are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. That's where the hymn comes from.
And we remind ourselves, my soul is cast down within me, but this I remind myself, and therefore I have hope. Jeremiah said in Lamentations, I remember the wormwood and the gall. And you know, there was a time when Jeremiah basically tried to turn in his resignation as a pastor I mean, as a prophet. He didn't want to do it anymore. And uh I I I I love that he was so discouraged.
I mean, he was literally getting beat up. on a regular basis. He was the weeping prophet. And he tried to turn his resignation. I'm done.
Here, you know. Take my pulpit, Lord. I I'm done. How many pastors listen to this program? have gotten to that point sometimes just ti tired of doing it.
I remember my father talking about that he he was so weary of it, and yet he never stopped. And he did share with me one moment. He said, I am tired of changing diapers. I'd like to see some Christians grow up. You ever feel that way as a as a pastor?
There's a teacher. In the church. That you like to see Christians grow up. That you feel like you're changing diapers a lot. But this is where we are.
This is where we're called to be. These are the people of God. that were called a shepherd, to minister to, to go into messy situations. It's when we stop being obedient to the calling on us. that we are the most vulnerable.
We may feel weak, we may feel overpowered, we may feel overwhelmed, we may feel nauseous. in the heat of battle. But David was not taken out. on the field of battle. He was taken out.
on his couch. It just every time I read it, it just breaks my heart. And I've been watching this on the House of David, and you watch it yourself. I mean, it's not. And Uber biblical.
There's a lot of drama they put in there, but there's some things they got right. But there's this one scene where you meet. David is starting to come up the ranks now as you can tell that the Spirit of God is heavy on him. And he's meeting these various warriors within um the the the the people of Israel. and he meets this man who introduces himself as Uriah.
And when I saw that, it was just one of those moments where your heart's in your throat because you know what's coming. And here he is, this mighty man of God. And he would one day murder this guy. Uriah. Just so he could have his wife.
And it's it's Uh you know I can't stress this enough. I know. That there are so many that are weary And There's a great See, you ever read Lord of the Rings? You ever you ever read the book? I mean, I know a lot of people have seen the movie.
Have you ever read the book? There's a scene Where um in the book we're Eomer, the king of the horse people, the Rohiram, meets Aragorn. who is the the future king of Gondor. um on the field of battle. They're on Pelinar fields.
And They meet up. And they pause on the battle and lean on their swords. and talked for a few minutes. They got to catch up. They just paused.
It's an amazing scene that Tolkien wrote. And I think sometimes as Christians, maybe we just need to... Pause on the field of battle And lean on our swords and build up one another. And then they got back to battle. They didn't leave the battlefield.
They just stood there for a minute and caught their breath. And has somebody ever come up to you on the field of battle? and just been a source of encouragement to you. And said, You're doing what God has called you to do. And I know you're weary.
I recognize that. But let me give you some scriptures. 2 Corinthians 4, 16 through 17.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed. Day. Bye. Day.
1 Corinthians 15:58. Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Now, those are really great verses. We all know them. But who who wrote those? Paul wrote those under the tutelage and the superintendence of the Holy Spirit, it's inspired by God. Riding through Paul, But you gotta remember how many times Paul was beaten.
How many times he was in prison? How many times he was maligned? And then you think about Paul just on his own. of how he must have carried the pain of the people that he hurt. You know, he never talked about Stephen.
He was there. He never talked about it. And it may be because Paul was settled that knowing that that was under the redemptive work of Christ. Or it may be that it was so painful to him. They didn't talk about it much.
But if you'll notice by the end of his life, Paul... says, you know, I'm the chief of sinners. But he pressed on, and he was writing even from prison. Scriptures that we cling to now in the comforts of our own home. Hebrews twelve three.
Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or faint hearted. What does it say to you? What does that say to you in Hebrews? Consider Him, Christ, who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself.
so that you may not grow weary or faint hearted, What he took on our behalf. in order for us to not grow weary or faint-hearted. He endured by obedience, he did not endure by escape, he did not go to his couch. Like David. He Went all the way to the cross.
Endurance is not about surviving hardship, it's about remaining obedient. when when leaving your post would expose you to something far worse. Leaving your post. would expose you to something far worse. I was talking to a pastor friend of mine who's dealing with cancer.
And he's been very, very sick. And he can't do much. He served in Vietnam. He was wounded multiple times in Vietnam. Still carries some strap uh shrapnel in his body.
and he was kind of feelin' sorry for himself. I, you know. I guess it's all over, I can't do anything, whatever. And the call of God and his life to the ministry. was not limited to or exclusive to a local church with a pulpit.
The call let me say that again. The call on this man's life as a minister of the gospel was not limited to a local church. In other words, he wasn't just a minister when he was at that church in that pulpit. He's called to minister the gospel. In season and out of season, wherever he is.
He was trained for this, and I spoke to him. My father was a Navy chaplain, and I remember my father speaking to other. Men and women in s in uniform. And I said the same thing to him. I said, Soldier, Your commander-in-chief has not released you of your calling.
Stay at your post. until he relieves you from duty. You can minister even from a sick bed. I know that. I've watched.
You just heard. a couple of blocks ago, Johnny Erickson Tata. She was not standing on a stage saying those things. She's in a wheelchair. where somebody has to put everything in front of her.
I've helped feed and help Johnny drink and help feed her. I've helped wiped her tears. and helped her blow her nose, 'cause she can't even do that. And she's telling you for the joy set before her. And I've done this with Gracie.
Coming out of surgery, it was like after her 93rd surgery or something, this last stretch, where we had 11 of them at one time. And this C and A came in, and Gracie just got up to the room from surgery. and she wanted to come by and talk to Gracie. And Gracie noticed, Gracie's laying there, she's still halfway under anesthesia, she's got tubes and everything else, she's in pain, she's had all these surgeries. And She just looked up at the lady, looked at her face, said, How you doing?
and her face clouded over and her her marriage was falling apart. And Gracie untangled herself from some of her tubes. and all the stuff that's going on with her and reached and took her hand. And she actually quoted her friend Johnny when she said, He allows what he hates to achieve what he loves. The same God who is sustaining me in this will sustain you and what you are dealing with.
She is ministering to this woman from her sick bed. Gracie didn't call in sick. She was certainly weary from the battle. But in the middle of the battle, is sometimes the safest place. For us.
Because we will expose ourselves when we step out of what God has called us to do. no matter how tired we are, no matter how justified we may feel about it. When we step out of that, Oh Christian. It can cause all kinds of heartache. In the spring.
when the kings went out to battle. David sent Joab. Whatever call that God has on your life, You are not allowed to outsource this. His strength is made perfect in your weakness. And if that's where you are today, where you are so weary, You are so discouraged.
Some of you may be taking care of a special needs child. And you are chest bone weary. You are not allowed to outsource the call of God on your life. You can bring in a you can enlist help. David had a whole army.
But he was there to be. King. in battle. That's the safest place to be. Don't know who needed to hear this today, but you know what?
I needed to hear it. I needed to preach it to myself. To remind myself, to be strong in this, to trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not unto my own understanding. And that is. Truth Talk Live, 866-34-TRUTH.
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This is Peter Rosenberger. HopefortheCaregiver.com is my website, and I would love for you to check it out. I have quite a few resources there for you. And I would very much encourage you to take advantage of one of them is the Caregiver 911. You'll see it blinking right at the top.
Just click on that if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed today and you don't really know where to start. I had a I talked to a lot of my fellow caregivers who are just You know, they they don't even know where to start. It's it's so big. And that kind of brings me to what we've been talking about today. Um as we start this new year.
Sometimes it's it's a bit daunting. And maybe for some of you, the hardest part of the battle hasn't been the fight itself. It's just been the loneliness. You know, God understands that. And that's why he he is a friend to the friendless.
You know, he is he is there. But it's hard to to wrap your mind around that sometimes 'cause it feels so empty. I mean, I don't know if you've ever had a meltdown in the parking lot of a hospital. But those are pretty lonely places. Waiting rooms are lonely.
But I've also told people that You know some pi sometimes that you can feel lonely in a crowded room and sometimes You could feel lonely on a crowded pew. You know? And maybe no one's really come alongside you. Maybe I don't know, maybe people checked in on you once, maybe twice, and then life moved on and you've been standing at your post quietly. Faithfully and mostly unseen.
Let me say this clearly. Especially as this year begins, you're not alone. You are not alone. And if no one has come alongside you in your battle.
Well, I'm doing that now. And here's the thing, this network. You could tune in. Any time of day, twenty four seven. And you know what you're going to hear?
You're going to hear the preached word of God. 24-7, no matter what time of day, no matter what you're going through. you're going to hear the preached word of God. Speaking life to you. Remember that old hymn, sing them over and over again, wonderful words of life.
Let me go to the caregiver keyboard. Wonderful words of life. Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life. And we need to hear those over and over. How many of you would acknowledge that you may have gospel amnesia?
I do. I got to hear it over and over and over again. Sing them over and over again to me. And I'm coming alongside you in this right to tell you these things because I need to hear it myself. I need you to do that for me.
Not to take the fight away from one another, not to offer cliches and quick fixes. There's some things that just not gonna be fixed this side of heaven. Do I need to say that again?
Some things aren't going to be fixed this side of heaven. But we can stand with one another long enough to remind each other of what Scripture says is true. We start a day in 2 Samuel 11. At the moment when the king's go out to battle, and David stayed behind. and we see the real danger, for David wasn't the battlefield.
It was stepping away from where God had placed him. Scripture calls us again and again and again and again not to heroics. But to endurance. The writer of Hebrews 12.1 says, Run with endurance the race is that is set before us, not someone else's race. Not an easier one.
the one that's assigned. And he We'll tell you when it's done. And again, I said in the last block, 2 Corinthians 4.16, that even while the outer self, Paul was saying, while the outer self is wasting away, the inner self is being renewed day by day. And I got to ask you, Christian, do you believe that? What do you believe?
Do you believe that or not? And if you do believe it, How would anybody know? What would that look like? and what is required of you in that moment. If I believe what I say that I believe, if I believe that Jesus is who I affirm him to be, Then, what is required of me?
What would that look like? How would other people know? Weariness. is not a disqualification. Remember Paul said, I'm poured out like water.
Jesus was tired. He pulled himself away and he rested, and after forty days of fasting and temptation from Satan after that, he was tired. Weariness is part of is part of it. It's part of the race. And that's not going to change this side of glory.
One day One day it will. We're gonna run and not grow weary. We're going to walk and not grow faint. Do you believe that? Do you really believe that?
Do you believe that you're going to mount up with wings like eagles because you waited on the Lord? I'm staking my life on it. Gracie's staking her life on it. Martin Luther wrote that into Mighty Fortress Let goods and kindred go, This mortal life also The body they may kill, God's truth abideth still. Do whatever you want.
They can't the the world has no jurisdiction over you. that God does not sovereignly allow. And kill our body. Beat our bodies. There's all kinds of things that the that man can do to our bodies.
But none of it is outside the jurisdiction of God. And none of it. will rob us from his kingdom. Nothing shall separate us from him. Nothing shall separate us from the world.
Hmm.
So if you're tired. And when it was just the second week of the new year, if you're tired. You're not failing. If you're weary, you're not weak. If you're discouraged, you're not going to be able to do it.
You're not alone. Endurance is not about feeling strong. It's not about feeling better. It's about remaining faithful. Can you imagine?
if only David had gone out to battle. But he chose to step away. And the cost was great.
Sometimes the safest place you can be is right in the battle. standing where God has called you, Even if your knees Or shaking.
So, have no one stood beside you lately? Let this program today on Truth Talk Live. Be a reminder, a voice in your ear, if you will, saying, Stay, you are not wrong for staying in the battle. And I know you're weary. But what does Jesus say about weary?
Come unto me. All you are weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest. And what does that look like to somebody like me? a caregiver for forty years for a woman with severe disabilities. I've been tired since nineteen eighty six.
And Jesus says, I'll give you rest. What is rest? What is rest to somebody like me? What is rest to somebody like you? Not I think I'm starting to understand that now.
Rest means That victory belongs to God. I do not have to bear the responsibility of the outcomes. I just have to be obedient. Gracie has a Savior. I'm not that Saviour.
You don't have to win today. I don't have to win today. You don't have to feel brave to day. I don't have to feel brave to day. But just like I told that pastor, you stay at your post.
I am to stay at my post. Because the only thing that can truly defeat us is not the fight in front of us. But the sin that creeps in when we abandon Faithfulness The only thing that can truly defeat us. Think about all the battles. that David won.
I mean crazy battles. that he won, But the only thing that defeated him was lying on the couch. instead of being obedient, to go into battle to protect the people that God had called him to lead. God is called each of us to our own journey and path in service of the kingdom. And we are weary.
And some of us get Bone weary. As we Take a moment to catch our breath on the field of battle and lean on our swords. Let us not Let us not lose heart. For we have a great Saviour. Who, for the glory set before him, the joy set before him, endured.
the cross. and bore the penalty of our sin. as an atonement. who also lived a life of of perfect righteousness.
So that not only were our sins atoned for, But he imputed his righteousness to us by faith. What we could not do. We can't we can't be righteous for how long can you go and be righteous? How long could I go? I mean, we got to repent of our repenting.
But Jesus lived a perfect life of righteousness. that has extended us were clothed in his righteousness. It wasn't enough that our sins were paid for. We have to be righteous. and that only comes from Christ.
From Christ alone, not us. and he never grew weary. of serving his father. It was joy to him. May it be for us as well.
That is Truth Talk Live. And you can see more about all these things that I've talked about today. Go out to my website, hopeforthecaregiver.com, and I'm grateful to spend the time with you. And I'll see you next time. Mm-hmm.
