The Road Traveled
A Christian based podcast geared to men to be able to take the bible and make it applicable to each man's life on the road he travels.
The Road Traveled
Ep 11: An Inside Job
We trace how treasures in heaven reframe our days, why serving others is the mark of true greatness, and how surrender to God turns time into love. Practical stories, scripture, and mindset shifts show a simple path from intention to action.
• Matthew 6 and storing treasures in heaven
• Perspective shaping attitude, behavior, and service
• Time as the most valuable gift we can give
• Jesus washing feet as a model of greatness
• Showing up for family over hustle and status
• Letting others serve us with humility
• Living with eternity in mind through daily surrender
• Practical ways to redirect calendars toward people
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Welcome to The Road Travel, a Christian podcast for men, where real faith meets real life. Through honest conversations and personal stories, we help you apply God's word to your everyday journey by sharing the road we've traveled. Whether you're walking through challenge, change, or calling, this is your road. And you don't have to travel it alone. Now, let's take the next step with your hosts, Aaron Degler and Alan Hugator.
SPEAKER_04:Welcome back to the Road Travel. Thanks for taking a little time to join us today. I'm your host, Aaron Degler. And along with your host, Alan Hugator, we hope that we are finding you on whatever road you may be traveling on. And as we do, each time we share a new episode, is we just share a little conversation between the two of us, some of the challenges we've had, some of how we take the scripture and we apply it to our life. And we try to kind of, as we, as we were talking before we started, sometimes it can get overcomplicated. So our goal is just to kind of make it a little simpler and share with you how we apply it. I mean, not too complicated ways, because we're not too complicated fellas. So we'll keep it pretty simple. So we're just going to share a little bit about my experience today. We're going to talk a little bit about what's inside of us and that inside job and how that inside job comes flowing out. So Malin's going to start a little bit, uh, start us with a scripture.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we start every one of these podcasts or episode with scripture. So we're going to flip over here to Matthew 6, 12, excuse me, Matthew 6, 19, and 21. And Jesus is saying here to his disciples, do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where mauls and vermin destroy, but where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourself treasures in heaven where mauls and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Whatever you hold the highest, whatever you're trying to accomplish in this life, if you want to be the greatest coach and ever lived, and you're struggling to be there, if you want to be the whatever you put out there in front of you, that's where your heart is. That's what you're going to gravitate toward, and that's what all your work's going to be toward. And he warns us about doing that for these earthly treasures. Our eyes should be upon the Lord, and that should be what we should be striving for. The things on earth mean nothing. And yet we do enjoy a lot of things that we acquire. That's one reason we work. We do have to work to survive in in this world. Or most of us do. That's a topic for sometimes about treasures of heaven.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. But the treasures we're storing up for heaven, nobody can take from us.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:They can't come into our life. They can't take our faith. They can't take our belief. They can't now people can try to sway it with their words, but they can't come in and physically open up your heart, your mind, and and pop it out. There's nothing they can steal physically that they can take with them. When I think about inside job, I mean I think about those treasures that we store up for heaven. You know, what are those treasures? John Maxwell, he is a leadership expert. He's written over a hundred books on leadership, but he you he he was a preacher and he used those leadership principles from the Bible to write those books. And it was his, you know, he kind of people kind of scoffed at him, like, how can you be a preacher and then go into the secular world and start doing something different? He said, but all the principles I teach in leadership are from the Bible. They're leadership principles. And so when people, and so it has opened up a whole new demographic for him that I don't know if demographic is the right word, but a whole different type of people that he can now share the word with because he's teaching them leadership, and these are leaders that want to be leaders. Go, where do you learn these principles? And he said, I learned them from the Bible. And he writes about, and and John Maxwell says, he talks about our perspective. And we think about inside job, we think of perspective. My perspective determines my attitude towards you. If I see you as weak, I will help you. If I see you as broken, I will fix you. If I see you as valuable, I will serve you. And that's one of the things I think about when we build up those treasures in heaven. Who are we serving? And are we finding we truly will serve people that we find valuable? Think about the people, and I think of that as servanthood. When we do that, it's we're not looking for anything in return. It's not transactional. When we serve somebody, we value them. We're doing them because we value them and we ask for nothing in return. You know, I used to work with this gentleman, oh, it's probably been almost 20 years ago. Maybe not that long, but pretty, pretty close to that. And he said, you know, I prayed that I wanted to be a servant to God and and and help people. And he said, he said, when I did that, I didn't realize the challenge that was going to be. Because he said it was a lot. It was a lot to serve, I mean, there's a lot of people that need things. He said it was very, it was a lot to say that and then do it with the heart that he was doing. It's to serve others. He said, I value them, I want to help them, but at the same time, it can also be, it can require a lot of you. Because what do we get pretty uh stingy with sometimes? Our time. And when we value somebody, we serve them, in what ways do we probably serve them the greatest? And that really sometimes is our time. It's sitting, you know, why do we do this podcast? It's because we're making millions of dollars off of it. It is not that reason whatsoever. It it really is because why do we spend our time to have conversations, to do, to prepare a show? Why do we do that? It's because we want to serve people because we value them and we want them, we know that it does get complicated on the road we travel, and the Bible can get super complicated. And we value them and want to make it simpler so you don't go, forget that. It's too much. I'm out.
SPEAKER_02:Well, it's the most important thing we can give our children our time. A lot of people have grown up without the time of their parents. Because we're in such a hustle-bustle. We're after things on this earth, as it says. The things that will perish that have truly no value for eternity. Been guilty of all this myself. Work day and night, as you say. Be gone. Don't need to come in, I'm tired, I ain't got time for you. You go to your room and play by yourself. Go get on a computer, go get on your phone. Go do that. I ain't got time, I'm busy. And what are we doing to them children? We're teaching them that that's what they'll teach the next generation. I had to not spend enough personal time with my kids. I could have it could just been down there fishing. It could have been just reading a book with them and things. It's not always about the big trip I took y'all and that I went out and made this money and I'm taking y'all. Pat me on the back for dinner. Those little things I think fits right in here with what we're talking about. But time with the children. You know, what can you give your children at last?
SPEAKER_04:I mean, and and a great example of that is we've talked about the man in the box, and at the end day, when you are in that box, what are you taking with you? There's not one thing from this earth that you get to take with you. You don't have a clutch in your arm that you get to take with you.
SPEAKER_02:No armor card falling at hearse down there.
SPEAKER_04:There's none.
SPEAKER_02:You know, all the money you make is go bury it out there with you, but you can't take it with you the next stop.
SPEAKER_04:It's not going. And you know, I was the same as as as you when my kids were younger. I didn't spend enough time with them. I'll have time later. I gotta work, I gotta make this money, I gotta provide for you, I gotta do these things. And as a as a young father, I thought that was my fatherly duty.
SPEAKER_02:Sure.
SPEAKER_04:And as I get older, and now I have grandkids. It's one of those things that, you know, my kids, you know, I worked, you know, 15, 16 hours a day when they're younger. So they might have a ball game. And I and I said, I can't leave for 30 minutes. It was across town. A few, about a month ago, my grandson, he's four. He had a little T-ball game. You know, they I mean, that's I mean, just T-ball, you know. And so they live about a little over four hours away. So we got that morning. He had a T-ball game at one. We get there about 12:45 to see him play, drove four hours. He gets there about one o'clock, that's what time the game starts. He cries for the first 15 minutes, and then his parents say, Well, uh, he's not gonna play. So they go home. 15 minutes. Right. And so we drive four hours to get to see him for 15 minutes and then drive back for four hours. And to me, I didn't think that was a waste of time at all. I didn't think that was a waste of day at all. Because now, me 20 years ago, I cannot believe I wasted my Sunday like that. But now it's like, you know, I I drove four hours, but I got to see him for 15 minutes, and he knew that I was there for 15 minutes because I have learned, just as you said, that our time is our most valuable thing. And I valued him, and how could I serve him? And I the best I could do is serve him with our time. Because sometimes we don't have the resources financially or materially to serve. You know, so sometimes the best way we can do in the church is help be a part with others in our community, um, with our own family members. You know, I've been guilty that a lot of years, not giving of my time. I mean, as I get older and and I try to be better.
SPEAKER_02:It's redirecting your time. You're not giving it up.
SPEAKER_04:Right. Redirecting.
SPEAKER_02:How many times just redirect it back home? Well, I went seeing my cousin the other day in Oklahoma, and he's got cancer. I was up at feed lots in the feed at Hereford, and I said, I'm gonna drive on up there and see him. And oh man, that takes another two hours, and this, and he'll come real close, talk himself out of it. But when I got done, finished the conversation, I told Kim on the way home, or after I got home, I said, it was probably the shortest trip of six hours driving home by myself I'd ever had because I felt good for what I've done. I felt really good about just like you on the way home. Hey, I feel good. So it's not wasting our time. It even gives you self-just, you know, it makes you feel good on the inside on where it's coming back. But it just makes you feel good. Hey, I went and I spent time with my cousin. I went and spent time with my grandchild. You know, tomorrow my grandson's in a football game. He's nine years old. Ten years old. And I've got an opportunity to go to another deal, but I'm gonna take out and go to my grandson's game. I want him to see that I was there. And when it's all over, my deal really is not important at all. But being with him and being with my daughter and the other grandkids and everything that we do, that's what's important. Society has trained us, if you will, through the years to we put mere materialistic things. We hold them up. That's all the education, that's what I was taught with the people we hung around. What are you gonna make of yourself? What you're gonna do, how you're gonna go make some big money, you know, how you gonna get out here and you're gonna go to school, and then you're gonna go work hard, and then when you're 65, you're gonna retire, and then you die. And yeah, that's but that's not living. We don't put enough emphasis on slowing down. I still struggle with this because I've I'm 66 years old and I've been rolling at it, and it's hard for me to slow down and take more time for my family and my friends. And I went to another cousin's funeral here a while back, and everybody was talking about such a great guy, and and his great father, and great grandfather, and man, everybody you know, and I seen all that and I said, Man, I said I didn't even take notice of that while he was alive. But now look at what do people think of him? I mean, there's a lot of people there that was friends and would talk about what a good guy he was and how he always had time to visit with him and talk to him and and all of this kind of stuff. But he didn't have a lot of m materialistic things. So but the rich man over here, or the man over here that spent time with people when it's all over. Can't take that to heaven. I'm sure my cousin has some crowns in heaven, or he has some jewels in heaven, some treasures in heaven, for the time he took with his family and tried to teach them about Jesus and the time he took with them and taught them right and wrong here on earth and how to treat other people and how to love other people. He showed how to love other people. So there's his treasures that he takes further on together.
SPEAKER_04:And and the hope is that then those pass those pass on to his family and friends and those that he came in contact with that they go, made a difference in my life, so let me let me make a difference somebody else's. And in John 13, 12 through 13, Jesus says, When he had washed their feet, speaking of Jesus, and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, the disciples, Do you understand what I've done to you? You call me teacher and lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. I was asked to speak a number of years ago at this church, and it was I was it was it was probably fifteen, sixteen years ago I was asked to speak at this church. I said, okay, yeah, I'll do it. And they wanted me to share a little bit about my journey and had the gym then at the time and explain a little bit about that. And so I did, and I really hadn't had any experience with this church before. I was just a gentleman that had come into the gym and got to know him. And so we got done. He said, now, he said, we're gonna we're gonna wash feet. He said, if you'd like to stay around, you can, or if you want to leave, you can. I said, well, if you don't mind, I'll leave. And then my Kim and I, we got out there, and I like, I don't want to wash anybody's stinky feet. We got out of there as fast as we could. Because I mean, you think about feet. I mean, think about this day and time too, when Jesus and the disciples is, I mean, you're walking around in sandals, and I mean, they're pretty gnarly. But when you think about, and again, I have a different perspective now, a number of years later than I did that day, it probably would have been burdened on me to stay to show value just to another person. But it was get out of there as quick as I can. But that when we serve someone in that way, we value them, and and to have clean feet was a a big thing. And to value somebody, to serve them in that manner, I'm really touch uh, you know, their feet, which at the time was kind of really disgusting, but not many people, you know, prance around their feet, you know, because it can get kind of rough. But to serve somebody in that manner and value them that much, Jesus is that example of just as you said to your cousin with the time, that so what I've done for you, you ought to do for others. Because again, can that person take their clean feet to heaven with them? Are they going to take those massaging, you know, their feet? They can't take any of that. But the way it makes them feel, what they take with them and what the person that did it gives is something that can't be replaced. And I and I like what you said. It's not about giving up your time, it's not about wasting your time, it's about redirecting your time. Because you're exactly right, because we all have the same amount of time in a day. We can't create, nor can we subtract time, but we can direct our time. You know, I I heard a gentleman say, it's kind of like, you know, back in the day when we had checkbooks, you know, there if you if you open registry, you could easily see where somebody finds what you could easily see what's important to them. You know, if you open up somebody's calendar, the same thing is true with your time as a currency. You can see where does their what is important to them. And time is is a very important thing. And and when we talk about attitude, my attitude towards you, when we think of attitude, attitude, did you ever tell your kids change your attitude?
SPEAKER_02:Sure.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:My wife told me that a few times.
SPEAKER_04:But has she ever told you how to do that? She expects you to go in the other room and come back happy, or come back nice, or come back sweet. But and our kids, we expect them to just switch it. But nobody ever shares with us how do we change our attitude? And we're all guilty of this. But an attitude is made up of three things. It's made up of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. So if if I think, if, if when my attitude toward you, if I think of you as valuable, my emotion to you is I care for you. And if I think of you as valuable and I care for you, my behavior and actions toward you will be completely different. My attitude, then, so now we have a systematic, actionable way. To change an attitude. Because we have a thought, we have an emotion tied to that thought, and then we have a behavior that comes from that. And so when we change our thoughts, we therein lies our attitude. And then it goes from because the attitude of do I view you as weak is an attitude, I'll help, I'll help you. If I see you as broken, I'll fix you. But if I see you as valuable thought, emotion, uh, my action will be, I'll serve you. I don't need to fix you, I don't need to help you. I will serve you. And that's exactly what Jesus did. He served in an unconditional manner, just as he loves in an unconditional manner.
SPEAKER_02:Have you ever went by someone that you're in church with or in town or whatever, and just, hey, how you doing? Just kept a hook in them. Maybe a couple of times. And then the third time you see them somewhere and you go over and you try to shake your hands, hey, how you doing? Good to see you. And you feel this cold feeling back from them. You didn't have time for me the last two or three times, but today you've got time for me. Well, I was busy those days. Well, I wasn't important enough for you to shake my hand that day. I've been guilty of this, you know, being a hurry, be doing this, and I, you know, hey, hey, hey, well, after a few times of that, I ain't gonna speak to that guy. He ain't got time for me. But then at some event are off on vacation, somewhere and I say, hey, hey, how you doing? You know, oh, you got time for me here. You know me here, but you didn't know me back at home. I know it may not be exactly, but again, it's whatever you put out what you receive back at times, also, right?
SPEAKER_04:But but but I mean, you didn't have time for me, so you don't see me valuable. So is every human valuable?
SPEAKER_01:Amen.
SPEAKER_04:Every human's valuable. God doesn't see anybody as not valuable. It doesn't matter the littlest baby, the oldest person, the worst criminal, the best Christian, they're all valuable. And he sees them as valuable. And again, shouldn't we do the same if we're walking past that person?
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_04:Shake their hand, say, Hey, how you do? How's it how good does it make to connect with somebody when somebody does that with each of us? Man, I'm man, I feel good. I they stopped and talked to me.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it must be he must like me a little bit. He stopped and took my hand and spoke to me. Yeah, every time I see him, man.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he's such a nice guy. It takes time. It's all he's done. Just take time.
SPEAKER_04:That's it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Because again, the thought is I see you as valuable. And the emotion is I care for you. And so my behavior is gonna be a result of that. And so our behaviors truly are a result of our thoughts. And that is where that is an inside job, is it starts with our thoughts. And part of our thoughts and part of that transformation is how do we get in the word? How do we see the examples that Jesus has set for us? We talked about the, you know, we talked earlier about different parables. You know, those are examples, and those start to change how we think. And then we go, well, if that's a parable, I learned from that. And why do we tell stories? Why do we tell stories to as people listen? Because it's an example. Let us share, you know, so maybe your thinking goes, ah, maybe I should. Let me think about that. Maybe I should think about that. And then we think about that, that changed our emotion towards it, which then changes our outer behavior, which our behavior is our actions. Because we begin to see the value in others. Every human, regardless of that human, what they've done or haven't done, have value. God showed it to us over and over again, how he valued people. But yet I think we in this time, and I think in all times, we don't value people the way we should. I mean, it literally really just takes the time to connect with them. No, Matthew 20, 28 says, even as the Son of Man came not to serve, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. He came to serve. Even on the cross, he was serving the the thief next to him. He still at the end moments, again, an example, he still valued that person's life so much that that minutes before his life was to end, he wanted to save someone else's life. He still had the time.
SPEAKER_02:The time. That just keeps popping back up, right? So let me share this a little bit with you here. Living with eternity in mind is the wisest way to live. So every day, if you're living and you're thinking about making it to eternity, what does it take to be to get to eternity? Being nice to people, serving people, all these things that we talked about. The time for other people, for time to study more about how to live the way God wants us to live. Living with eternity of mind is it's a, I don't want to say it's a constant struggle, but it's something you got to keep on your mind to live it that way is the wisest way to live, no matter what you're doing. Because we can go back to the old deal here of you only live once, let's get after it, boys. You know. Sure, let's go party and let's give it up, man. We only live once.
SPEAKER_04:And we use that usually in a in a let's have fun and do all the things we shouldn't do.
SPEAKER_02:Exactly. You know, a complete opposite of what I was getting at.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. Yeah, it's but it should be, hey, we're gonna live once, let's value everybody we can and serve everybody we can.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:You know, because that's the end in mind.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because only living once is very selfish. Right? Jesus was not selfish, he just talked about it. If you're truly living for eternity, while you're here on earth, you're living for the designation of eternity. You're not living selfishly. You're living to serve, you're living to continue to be more and more like Christ and what he was, and serving is it, but but and a little bit off Christ, but I found this, I found this quote and I found it very interesting.
SPEAKER_04:You know, what's the difference between I like you and I love you? Buddha answered the question in the following way. When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. I didn't know Buddhas were that smart. I know, right? It's funny we're here talking about Jesus and you bring up Buddha, but that the quotation is the quotation is really an example of serving.
SPEAKER_04:Yes.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:We we we nurture it. Yes, we love it, and we take care of it. Again, it goes back to what Jesus said to serve.
SPEAKER_02:That's what Jesus done to everyone he came in contact with that would allow it.
SPEAKER_04:Some of them didn't they walked off. And that's a good challenge. We we talk about serving others, but the challenge sometimes can be when someone values us enough that they want to serve us. And sometimes that's very challenging to allow people to do that. Sometimes it's, you know, have you ever wanted to bless somebody? Maybe it's financially. I mean, you give them a gift, you want to bless them financially, and you give it to them, you feel really good. But then there's times when that it's turned around and you want to be blessed, and and you are the one being blessed, maybe that with financial with that financial thing. And it's really hard to accept. I mean, Kim and I have talked about it numerous times, and and we always say it's really hard to do, but we don't want to take their blessing. Just as it makes us feel, sometimes it's really hard to challenge and to take that blessing when when God gives it to us. But we have to take that because it is a blessing to somebody else to be able to give that blessing to serve. So sometimes, you know, if somebody's there washing our feet right now, we're going, I I hate that you're down there. Oh, watch that toe, you know, that's kind of, ooh, that callus, watch that, you know, that's kind of, ooh, I got something growing down there, be careful. You know, we get kind of, I don't know about that. I don't know if I want you to see my feet. But sometimes, just as much as we need to serve, there are times and we need to allow others to serve us because they do value us and they do love us and they do want to nurture and water us daily. And we have to allow them to have that because of them valuing us. The noun's in deep thought.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I was thinking about some mindsets are I'm not gonna lower myself to that. But you're really not, you're really raising yourself. Now some people wouldn't understand it. Again, it's a thought. It's all in the thought, but I'm not gonna lower myself and get on my knees and wash someone's feet.
SPEAKER_04:And I and I was telling you that, I was thinking looking down at my feet, and I was thinking, I want somebody. I mean, I feel like then they're subservient to me.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, honestly, that's what I'm Yeah, you know, or I'm not gonna go and bring him something to drink or bring him something or nothing. My gosh, you know, I ain't just servant. Feels back to surrendering to God every day. We're supposed to surrender our life to him every day and serve his purpose every day. That's serving him, is by surrendering, which means, okay, it ain't like us Americans thinking we're surrendering, throwing up the white flag, but it's putting him first. That's what we surrender to and base our day, as I read there a while ago, you know, about living with eternity in mind, is that we have to surrender. If we got matern eternity in mind, we're surrendering to God. If we keep eternity in our head, we're surrendering him every day and putting him first. That's what what it's about. And truly, uh, it took me a while to get past the word surrender because we all well, we're marking, we don't surrender, you know. I don't know, you know, we don't but it's not that kind of surrender. Just look at him first in your life, and you will reap so much from that it's nothing like surrendering and you become a prisoner. Look what you're gaining.
SPEAKER_04:It's surrendering as it's saying, I'm all yours, God. Do with me what you will.
SPEAKER_02:And allowing that each and every day. Not just asking for it one time. Well, I ain't heard nothing. He ain't got me doing nothing over here. Well, you're not surrendering and listening. It took me a while to get that. Hey, chill out. Surrender. Just every day. God ain't gonna surrender today to you. I'm gonna try to do nothing against you. I'm gonna try not to do anything that would disappoint you today. I don't want to get to lunch and I've already done something. But the point is, I try to surrender. It's God, I'm gonna surrender to you today, and I try to think about that throughout the day at times. And if I do step out of line, hey, straighten up. You surrendered to him today. He's first. Kingdom of heaven is first. I didn't mean to get deep into surrender, but but serving him.
SPEAKER_04:You're saying, I value you so much, God. I want to, how can I serve you today? That surrender, how can I serve you? I'm I'm all yours. What can I I value you so much? I surrender and want to serve you.
SPEAKER_02:And that's a perspective that we should have on life. And the other things would come secondary or down the list. You know.
SPEAKER_04:But it again, it all starts inside of us.
SPEAKER_02:What is it they say it's supposed to be God and family and country, or they get that. But God is supposed to be first on that list, right? And he is not in a lot. You see it in our society. God is not, it ain't God and country and family, or however that goes. He is not first on that list.
SPEAKER_04:We we treat him kind of like our to-do list sometimes. Oh, I didn't get to you today. God, I'll go ahead and put you on the next day.
SPEAKER_02:You know what's on the top of that list?
SPEAKER_04:Didn't get to you.
SPEAKER_02:Ourselves. Self. Self-wants and self-desires. Then it falls down to maybe your family, and then it falls down to maybe kind. And God is not up there. But he is the number one on that list when we talk. I've heard it's in movies and different things, you know, God and country and family and no. Our country don't even serve him that way. I have not lots of days because I'm on top of that list. I mean, I try to admit to my sins on this and say I can't do all of them, I'd be in trouble. But we'll keep moving. And get up every day and say, He's the top of my list. Serving you, surrendering your to your will today, it's where my heart's gonna be all day long.
SPEAKER_04:With that, guys. With with with the eternity in mind.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Without surrendering to him, even though Jesus is done for us, if you're not, do you really know God and do you really know Jesus if you're not willing to surrender to him? I question whether you truly know him or not.
SPEAKER_04:And it and it is every day. God, you're at the top of the list. I surrender, I value, I serve you with eternity in mind.
SPEAKER_02:And all of this other we talked about how to serve others and treat others and be kind and all that. That's what he wants us to do. So that's serving him. That's putting him first and then doing these actions that we've been talking about for 30 minutes. That's what it boils down to.
SPEAKER_04:Just from our thoughts to our emotions. I love you. I'm gonna put those into action. Starts with inside of us.
SPEAKER_02:Anyway, another topic for another time.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. You wanna lead us in prayer?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'd be glad to, be glad to, if everyone will join me. Lord, uh, we pause at this time just holding you up high, Lord, and serving you and worshiping you as for what all you've given us and what the light that you shine upon us and showing us the way to eternity is through you and your son Jesus Christ. Lord, it is thank you so much for that. And Lord, I ask your blessings down upon everyone that's listened to this podcast. And as I spoke about the country, Lord, I ask that you help us in this country, Lord, and that you help the leaders to try to do what your will would be. Lord, we come to you again at this time in the name of your son, our Savior Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen.
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SPEAKER_00:You've been listening to The Road Travel, where real faith meets real life. Remember, every step matters, even the hard ones. So keep walking your road with courage, conviction, and Christ leading the way. Until next time, your hosts, Aaron and Allen, say we'll see you down the road.