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Take Refuge in knowing that we don't know the impact that our decisions can have in the world.
We don't know how much good we can do, we don't know how much worse things could have been, and we don't know how God is using us.
With that in mind, we should seek to do what is right.
Transcript:
Good morning, defenders, happy Monday. So excited to be with you again, whether it's on your drive to work or you're listening with headphones and you're working or whatever you're doing throughout your day. Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your day today. Here on the defenders digest on a weekly basis, we like to start our Monday mornings, right? With a word of encouragement, with some motivation, with some dedication to the Lord, orientating our lives, looking upward. And hopefully as we focus on him, his glory radiates out through us and we're able to touch others today. I want to tell you guys a story that I think if you let it, we'll bring a lot of encouragement to you might change the way you think a little bit might change the way that you look at interactions and the way that you think about sharing love.
So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna dig into a very deep, very personal, very raw story. This was a couple months ago and I had, I was kind of upset with myself, honestly, that I felt like over the course of a couple weeks, I had been so focused on my job. I'd been so focused on teaching that I was coming home home. I always come home, absolutely exhausted physically and mentally done. And I felt like I wasn't giving my wife the attention that I wanted to. I wasn't showing her the love that I wanted to. I wasn't, I wasn't being the best husband and that I could be. I wasn't sharing my best fruits with her. And I honestly believe that the first fruits go to Lord. And then after that, the best fruits that you have left, those go to your spouse and to your family.
And you don't, you don't let other people are your job take that, but that's what I've been doing. And so I made a of my mind while I was at work, that I was going to be fully focused on loving Grace as best as I possibly could. That was my decision that I had made. I consciously told myself that made that decision. And when I, when I got home that evening, it seemed like Grace had made another decision and decision it. I felt like she had made was no matter what happened. She wasn't in a mood where she was going to allow me to express love to her. It was a, it was a very, very hard night for grace and I. It ended up being a very long night for grace and I, and Did I do everything perfect, of course not. But moment by moment, as the night progressed, the consistent thought that I was having in my head was how can I best show Grace Love right now? And something else would happen and I'd get frustrated or annoyed and I'd stop. And I'd pause and I'd think, how can I best show Grace Love right now?
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