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Howdy. Howdy.

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I was glad to see everybody today. You know, I was reading in

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Hebrews and it says that you should not grow

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weary. You know what? That sounds like a good idea.

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I think we should do that. Sound good? Yep, yep, yep. Alright,

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sounds pretty easy. Alright, let's go ahead and do that. You know how there's always that one

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person that manages to say something that's just

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a little bit obvious but maybe not quite so easy.

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It's sort of like, oh hey, yeah man, I'm really hungry. Oh, you probably

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should have eaten something. Yeah, I guess so. Man,

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I'm really tired. Oh, you should definitely go to bed on time. I salute you

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Captain Obvious. Thank you. I really appreciate that. And so here we are

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hearing this part in the book of Hebrews saying, do not be

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weary. And it's like, keep going. Really?

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That's what you're going to do. How do you just

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will yourself to not be weary? You know what? I have two choices.

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I could either be weary or not be weary. Oh boy, that's a really

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tough decision. You know, I think I'm going to go with not being weary. How do you just

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do that? And that's something that really just strikes

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me about this is that it's telling you something that you're wondering

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how am I supposed to push through when you're just telling me

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stop being so tired. But whenever I think about

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being weary, my mind always goes to metaphors of backpacking

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because I feel like that's whenever I've been the most physically exhausted

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in my life. Whenever you have a pack with 50 to 60 pounds on your back

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and you're trying to keep going about 10 miles in a day

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and you're wondering, are we there yet? Are we there yet?

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Are we there yet? See, in the

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book of Hebrews, we end up seeing that Jesus is above

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all. Above the laws, he is greater than all the laws of

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Moses. He is greater than all the spiritual messengers of the past.

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He's also greater than the role models and all of the leaders that they

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had before. But so what?

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Why is that so important to point out that Jesus is

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greater than all these and to then be able to say, now

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I'm so weary. But what is it ultimately about?

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And the reason why backpacking stands in my mind

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as I think about this is because with backpacking is that it's not just

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about trying to get to where you're going. It's about struggling

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through the journey that it takes to get there.

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Because that's what we end up seeing in our passage from

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Hebrews today. How do we figure out

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where to go and what comes next?

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It is not easy because staying strong in what

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God has called us to do is not easy.

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The thing is is that we end up having a list of all these people

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in chapter 11 that describes how they had to walk by faith

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and it was not easy for any of them.

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One of them that I was pointing to was Abel.

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Abel was over there having to do the right thing because it was right

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even though the consequences took his own life.

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Abel and Cain were over there

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expected to be worshiping God and this was after the fall

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so to worship God required the death of an animal.

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But instead of taking it seriously Cain

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decided that he would rather just offer up some vegetables

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instead. There was Abel

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taking the life of one of his animals and putting that there

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and letting that be a sacrifice to God and what does his brother Cain do?

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Here's some corn maybe some wheat

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why don't you burn that instead? It almost feels as if

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he doesn't even care. It almost feels as if he doesn't even

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think that there's any point to it whatsoever.

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And we oftentimes find that same

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feeling ourselves. It's how often is it that we

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put in the least amount of effort into our spiritual

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lives. Make sure we just get the minimum in.

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And then anything beyond that is just too much of a nuisance.

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You know what maybe I'll participate

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in the life of the church. Maybe I'll participate in my spiritual

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life but you need to market it really well. You have to make

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sure that it really speaks to my innermost desires.

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And I really need you to coordinate around my schedule.

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I need you to make sure that it fit because I've got some stuff going on

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and I really got to catch up on Cobra Kai this week. And you know what

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I really need to make sure that you can customize it. That it's something I'm really looking

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for. I really need you to work this out for me but don't make me work too hard.

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How often is it that we

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end up putting the least amount of effort into our spiritual lives

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and then oftentimes we find others frustrated

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and wondering what the point of it was.

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The thing is is that whenever we were out there on these trails

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and we're backpacking along and we're trying to go just a little bit extra

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and just push a little bit harder. And the thing is is that you could always tell

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the ones who hadn't quite realized

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the need to keep pushing harder and to strive more

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from the ones who were still, you know what, I'm not quite ready

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and the ones who were ready to push and to go beyond.

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And you see that level of being able to say that it's more than just putting in the minimum

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effort but to be able to care about what you're doing.

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to do what is right just because it's right.

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But even more than that is that sometimes when we do

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we have to end up going on that journey alone.

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that path with us. Is that as much as we want to make sure

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that we are pursuing God with everything that we say and we do,

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not everybody else sees that. And sometimes we have

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to do it alone. Like Abraham.

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See Abraham, he knew that God was saying that he needed to go to this

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land, a place that he had never been to. This was before times

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where you could check up on TripAdvisor to see, oh, you know,

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10 tips on visiting the promised land or, oh hey, let me go to Google Maps

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and make sure I know which is the easiest path to get there. Ooh, that looks like

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a lot of traffic, way too much sheep. You know, we didn't have

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all these things back then. Rather is that it's a place that he didn't

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even know what was waiting for him. Or even whether it was really

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what he expected. But Abraham knew that God wanted

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him to leave the land where he was at. A place that was full of all of those

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that were worshiping all these other gods and to go someplace where he could be true to who God was

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and what he desired of them. But you see,

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his family, his dad, all the other siblings,

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they didn't go with him. He had to take his own family and make the way

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himself. And that's the thing about this is that oftentimes when

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we are pursuing God is that it takes a long time.

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And we keep wondering, did I hear him right?

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Am I sure that this is really what it is that he wants of me?

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Because we see other people not going along with us.

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We wonder why it is that we have to go that path alone. Why it is

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that it feels like others don't understand.

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And that's the thing that we oftentimes have to do though.

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Is that as weary and tiresome as it is, is that we still have to keep going

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even if nobody else understands. I remember at one point

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I had a bunch of people backpacking with me and they kept seeing all around

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us all these flat level places. Really nice.

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There was some grass, the trees, the shade, everything was great. Could we go ahead

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and just stay here for the night? Wouldn't this be great?

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But I knew the place we were supposed to go was another two miles away.

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And I knew that if we stopped here instead of there, we wouldn't be anywhere

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close to water. And we wouldn't be able to make it to the

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next stop the next day. And as much as everyone

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was upset, is to still keep saying, this is the way we have to go.

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And it is long and it is tiring

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but we still have to go.

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And that's the thing that we end up hearing about this is that as much

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as we don't know what may be waiting for us

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is that when God says to follow him

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we go. But the thing about this

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spiritual life though, is that sometimes we also don't get a choice.

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Sometimes when we're supposed to follow after God, it's not

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because we said, oh, well will I follow after God or won't I follow after God?

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Sometimes the situation he puts us in is something we can't even

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choose. Which is why it's so amazing that in

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Hebrews they pointed out Sarah.

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Because Sarah being the wife of Abraham, at that

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time to be a mother was seen as how you were

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giving to your family. And that was when you felt blessed by God.

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The thing is that Sarah didn't have a say in that part of it.

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Sarah wasn't deciding that this was the situation

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she wanted to be in. But rather is to realize that that path

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was one that she had to follow because that's just what God had for her.

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But let's be honest, as much as Hebrews kind of glosses over

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Sarah's story, Sarah did not always stay

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on that path the way she was meant to. Is that she was

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so discouraged and felt that whatever they were doing

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was missing God's path. That she ends up going

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and taking one of her servants and telling her husband to have children

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by her. Did that sound like what God had

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promised? Did that sound like what it was that God wanted

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for their future? But she was discouraged.

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and in the same vein? Is that we know this is the path we're

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trying to go. But we're so frustrated and discouraged that we're willing

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to do anything that would just take away that

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weariness and would just change something. Just feel like

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something is moving forward. Even though we know that that was

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not what God was calling us to do. The times whenever we

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stop paying attention to whether something at work was ethical or moral

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or the times whenever we just want to say something to get a point across

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without asking whether that's genuinely what God wants us to speak at that

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moment. Or the times whenever we think we can force something or

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push it to get what it is that we want.

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are ready. Because there are the times whenever

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we can't choose it. But we still have to go forward.

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I still remember at one point realizing

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we had to hike a camper out from the wilderness.

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And the problem is that they weren't able to keep going. We had to add

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an extra two miles each way just to get the person

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out. And then try to get back to where we were going.

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another 10 after that.

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We did not know when we would find the rest of the group. And the problem

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was that they had the food. They had the provisions. They had

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the stoves. They had the extra that we

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because if you stop

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then you don't know what it is that may be waiting for you.

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And you get to the end of it and all you can do is just cry. Because you don't

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know how it was that you pushed to that point.

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the struggle the pushing and the not knowing where it's meant to go

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is actually part of what God is using to

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discipline us. And it is part of what that journey is

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to change us. Because the discipline happens through the

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trials. You know how many times is it

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that we understand that a parent is going to discipline

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us. Is going to have hardships happen in our lives.

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struggling through are just an accident waiting to happen.

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People like Moses who ended up leaving his whole life behind

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coming back to Egypt to rescue the people.

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And then bringing them to the promised land and somehow thinks that God doesn't get it

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when he says to speak to a rock. And then God

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has to keep him from the promised land. Because otherwise

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the children of Israel wouldn't understand the point to be made.

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kept having to go back and save the children of Israel over

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and over. Because they keep going their own path and God keeps

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having to allow them to suffer under the surrounding

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nations. Or even the times when the kings themselves

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when they had their own purposes their own plans

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and they weren't willing to slow down and let God be in control.

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When you have a king who is seeing an impending army and instead of

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trusting that God has it in control and wait for his time in his plan

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rushes the sacrifice and then loses God's

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blessing. Because so much of what we

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end up going through is God intending to change us.

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He wants us to grow.

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He wants us to change.

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going to be in charge. So then why are we surprised

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that God could possibly be doing something through all of these

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struggles? And that's the thing about it though.

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Is that even when we're not sure what's going on is that we're still meant to obey

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even when it's difficult. Even when we don't get it

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even when we're not sure where it's going even when we're confused as to how

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it's supposed to play out. Yet God still says

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I need you to go.

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Because the times whenever we're following him are not always

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going to make sense to us. And if they were

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easy then when would we grow?

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how often do we let them make us bitter?

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That the weariness frustrates us, turns our hearts

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heartens us and makes us feel that there's nothing else

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to go for. And yet where is the joy

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meant to be found? Is that the joy is meant to be

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found that God is doing something in our lives.

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That God is working to transform us not

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once we can finally get through this journey but because of the journey.

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I know the times whenever it's I've been

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standing next to Mount Talach where I know that Lake Tahoe is just on the other

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side but you have to take another hour

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to go up to the top just to see it.

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But the problem is that if you're not willing to work hard to get

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to the point then was it really worth the journey in the first place?

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Wherever we've

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gone isn't it amazing when

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we look back and we discover what it was that God

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was doing all along. And yet we have such a hard

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time believing that for the future. But that's also

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why we're meant to stand with each other during

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the weariness. We're meant to be there with each other

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during the hard times. We're meant to be the ones

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that continue to encourage each other out of the bitterness

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through the struggle. Because

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with that is that as we are traveling through we're meant

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to remind each other of what God is doing and that

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this too plays a part.

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Whenever we finally would finish the hike and we would get

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to the end and we would sit down and we would make dinner.

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What was amazing was that it was the simplest of meals

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and yet after everything we pushed through

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it tasted so much better. And more than that

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when we were done with that hike

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with that trip how many of us knew

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how many other things we could tackle in life because of it.

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God

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is asking you to not grow weary

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but he's not saying to do it alone.

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But to know that he is the one doing his work

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through you. To know that he is with you and

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on top of it that we are meant to be on this journey together.

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So wherever you may be on this

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whatever may be weight making you weary and bitter and frustrated

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God ultimately uses things for his good

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and more than that he still knows exactly where

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you are and is still working in your life.

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So don't be weary

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because I promise you wherever you are on this journey

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you are not alone. Thanks be to God.