1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,500 (Auto-generated)I've had a great many people show me that clearly one of the most misleading and misunderstood 2 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:11,860 hidden concepts that blocks them from having a better understanding and feeling closer 3 00:00:11,860 --> 00:00:18,060 to God and his history with mankind and creation of our universe, people have often shown me 4 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:24,900 that one of the roots of their feelings of disconnect from God is in fact time, or rather 5 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,700 the way that we think about time. 6 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:32,760 We're born into this world and progress through it all the way to our deaths. 7 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:37,720 It's one of our absolutes when we make the natural calculations before decisions are 8 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,760 made. 9 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,260 Time will progress forward. 10 00:00:41,260 --> 00:00:43,100 We will always be older. 11 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:45,060 Time stops for no man. 12 00:00:45,060 --> 00:00:47,100 You're not getting any younger. 13 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:50,060 It goes without saying. 14 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:52,620 So we rarely think about time. 15 00:00:52,620 --> 00:00:53,860 Not objectively. 16 00:00:53,860 --> 00:00:58,260 It's becoming grained in us and we're completely submerged in it. 17 00:00:58,260 --> 00:01:04,520 It's something that human race has dealt with since the dawn of, well, you know. 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,460 But God would exist outside of time. 19 00:01:07,460 --> 00:01:09,740 He's the beginning, middle and the end. 20 00:01:09,740 --> 00:01:11,940 He's not ruled by time. 21 00:01:11,940 --> 00:01:16,700 Is a computer programmer ruled and governed in his everyday life by the rules that he 22 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:19,500 writes in his own code? 23 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:20,500 But that makes sense. 24 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:25,340 And when you ask him for help, how often is it that things that you had ultimately no 25 00:01:25,340 --> 00:01:32,100 idea would lead to your help were already in motion before you asked for help? 26 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:36,400 God is infinitely clever in the ways that he guides help to us. 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,580 Like trick shots, but with a near infinite amount of variations to consider. 28 00:01:42,580 --> 00:01:47,200 I don't know how many of you have gone through this, but I sometimes am able to catch the 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:57,700 back trail on how help arrived and several times it's been one of those things where 30 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:04,220 help began the journey to me before I even asked for it. 31 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:09,980 And I don't think that was so much an idea of God saying, yeah, he's going to want help 32 00:02:09,980 --> 00:02:13,380 with this, but it might be, who knows? 33 00:02:13,380 --> 00:02:18,780 But in certain situations, I think it may have been, I asked for help, just kind of 34 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:24,380 reached back, made an adjustment, help arrived. 35 00:02:24,380 --> 00:02:30,660 I guess the point I'm getting at is that he would exist differently than us in time and 36 00:02:30,660 --> 00:02:38,460 would have significantly more control in where he or rather when he made interventions or 37 00:02:38,460 --> 00:02:40,720 acted. 38 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:47,460 God is infinitely clever and we constantly do him a disservice by trying to fit him into 39 00:02:47,460 --> 00:02:52,780 this box that we made for him that, well, God couldn't do that. 40 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:57,020 We don't have an inkling of what God could do. 41 00:02:57,020 --> 00:03:03,660 Imagine God making small changes to the world and its events, not as we do as they happen, 42 00:03:03,660 --> 00:03:08,540 but as an artist changing different parts of a sculpture, which represents the whole 43 00:03:08,540 --> 00:03:11,660 of our existence throughout time. 44 00:03:11,660 --> 00:03:17,420 God knows every atom in your body because even as science and physics teach us, every 45 00:03:17,420 --> 00:03:23,200 single atom in this universe was part of a singularity, a single point in space. 46 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,920 And we had the entirety of our existence spring from that one point. 47 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:30,380 God said, let there be light. 48 00:03:30,380 --> 00:03:35,660 And there was the brightest light that could ever exist. 49 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:37,580 The big bang. 50 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:42,220 God knows every possible path you can pick and watches your future change with every 51 00:03:42,220 --> 00:03:43,220 decision. 52 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:47,620 Suffice it to say, God knows what you're going through. 53 00:03:47,620 --> 00:03:50,860 God knows that you have to face down demons. 54 00:03:50,860 --> 00:03:58,300 God knows that you aren't always going to be aware of your struggles with them, nor 55 00:03:58,300 --> 00:04:01,340 will there always be a struggle. 56 00:04:01,340 --> 00:04:08,260 We can be pretty complacent when we sin, especially at a time when survival has seemingly been 57 00:04:08,260 --> 00:04:11,180 conquered and our focus seems to be entertainment. 58 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:14,500 Wow, let's go hand in hand. 59 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:20,100 For me, when I think sinful, mainly I think of the things that disconnect us from one 60 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:21,100 another. 61 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:27,100 I think of the things that harm your neighbor, that teach humanity to distrust, that further 62 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:30,060 separate us from each other. 63 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:34,860 And we can be so much better than that. 64 00:04:34,860 --> 00:04:36,340 And God knows it. 65 00:04:36,340 --> 00:04:42,380 And God understands things about us inside and out better than we ever will. 66 00:04:42,380 --> 00:04:50,060 But we will never be fully aware of God nor his intentions or his methods, nor much more 67 00:04:50,060 --> 00:04:56,140 than an iota of his majesty when we are confined in these bodies. 68 00:04:56,140 --> 00:05:02,780 Something cannot happen while we are still in this world of that which has form. 69 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:09,900 The human mind is just too limited to comprehend it, and our physical senses are just too constrained 70 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:12,380 to provide context. 71 00:05:12,380 --> 00:05:18,100 Our senses have only ever experienced the world of that which has form. 72 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:25,060 It isn't until we leave this form and spread out a bit after the death of our bodies that 73 00:05:25,060 --> 00:05:28,420 we are going to be able to understand more of it. 74 00:05:28,420 --> 00:05:33,860 Though even the concept of understanding is a physical concept. 75 00:05:33,860 --> 00:05:38,900 While we are here in these bodies, we will never be able to understand God or how everything 76 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:39,900 works. 77 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:47,860 True, I lay down a pretty solid logical roadmap in my book and on the podcast, but you will 78 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:51,380 never have everything you need to know for certain. 79 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:58,420 It's never going to be 100%, and so we come to the three most important aspects of our 80 00:05:58,420 --> 00:06:00,820 relationship with God. 81 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:06,660 He doesn't ask us for our understanding or for us to know for certain, because he knows 82 00:06:06,660 --> 00:06:10,180 that those are impossible tasks. 83 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:16,660 He instead asks the first of the most important aspects, that we believe in him without that 84 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:18,620 absolute proof. 85 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:23,620 He doesn't ask us to know the outcome of every possible decision and to choose that which 86 00:06:23,620 --> 00:06:29,060 will have the least negative effects in the long run for everybody, because he knows we 87 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:31,260 can't see that far ahead. 88 00:06:31,260 --> 00:06:34,700 We can only guess and predict. 89 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,940 Instead he asks the other two most important aspects. 90 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:43,900 He asks that we are kind to each other, that we do for each other, that we act from love 91 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:51,340 and that we bond and connect, because regardless of what lies ahead in the hidden future that 92 00:06:51,340 --> 00:07:01,180 hides one second away from the noses on our face, acting from these motivations resonates 93 00:07:01,180 --> 00:07:06,860 through us and it amplifies. 94 00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:13,860 And it's something that without ever having to apply objective thought to it, we inherently 95 00:07:13,860 --> 00:07:16,020 know how to be good. 96 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:19,060 We understand it at our cores. 97 00:07:19,060 --> 00:07:24,540 And the third of the most important aspects of our relationship with God is that we trust 98 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:26,960 him. 99 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:33,940 As I said before, you can't understand him, and motivations are a human concept that is 100 00:07:33,940 --> 00:07:40,940 far below God's complexities, so we can't know his motivations or where he will lead 101 00:07:40,940 --> 00:07:44,900 you if you elect to follow his lead. 102 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:52,180 So he asks faith of us, for us to trust that he will care for you, that he won't reject 103 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:55,020 or betray or harm you. 104 00:07:55,020 --> 00:08:01,300 I believe that the way that we exist in time acts as a pretty solid disruptor of these 105 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:10,020 things, so please try to remain aware that all that has happened is there right now. 106 00:08:10,020 --> 00:08:16,500 It's just as real as this moment, or this moment, or this one. 107 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:21,140 It's just as forgive the pun, present. 108 00:08:21,140 --> 00:08:26,820 And all those possible paths that we might yet still choose, they are there already, 109 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:33,140 moving and shifting and changing as each decision is taken and each action is made. 110 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:39,660 And God is the only one that knows all that came before, and where all the paths ahead 111 00:08:39,660 --> 00:08:42,340 of us individually lead. 112 00:08:42,340 --> 00:08:46,100 Let go of the thought that we know what best to choose. 113 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:51,580 Make your decisions and acts out of a place of love and generosity and patience and understand 114 00:08:51,580 --> 00:08:58,100 that we can't understand and just believe in God, and by way of that, put your trust 115 00:08:58,100 --> 00:08:59,100 in him. 116 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:22,940 It's the only way to live that makes sense.