WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:02.399 A reading from Isaiah. 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:06.879 For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth. 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.880 The former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:21.440 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating, for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.600 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and delight in my people. 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:31.280 No more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:41.119 No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:50.399 For one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed. 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:57.840 They shall build houses and inhabit them, they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:03.759 They shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant and another eat. 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:12.319 For like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall enjoy the work of their hands. 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:23.280 They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord, and their descendants as well. 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.599 Before they call, I will answer, while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.919 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:12.639 We were not idle when we were with you. 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.319 We did not eat anyone's bread without paying for it. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:22.719 But with toil and labor we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you. 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:29.439 This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imitate. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.840 For even when we were with you, we gave you this command. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.360 Anyone unwilling to work should not eat. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:44.319 For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:52.960 Now, such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:57.360 Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right. 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.280 The word of the Lord. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.240 All will be thrown down. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.120 They asked him, Teacher, when will this be? 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.319 And what will be the sign that this is about to take place? 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:38.719 And Jesus said, Beware that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name and say, I am He, and the time is near. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.719 Do not go after them. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:49.360 When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:54.000 Then he said to them, Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. 00:03:54.159 --> 00:04:01.680 There will be great earthquakes and in various places famine and plagues, and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:11.840 But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you, they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.879 This will give you an opportunity to testify. 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:25.120 So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance, for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:32.079 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:38.079 You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair of your head will perish. 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.279 By your endurance you will gain your souls. 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.680 The Gospel of the Lord. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:06.879 It was not as tall, it was not as wide, it was not as deep. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:13.199 That temple, which was meant to be God's literal house, they thought God lived in it. 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.560 So God was like a giant but not too tall. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:22.959 That got torn down in 586, completely demolished to the ground. 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:34.000 And then it was rebuilt a little bit after the year 540, this is BC, smaller than David's son Solomon originally built it. 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.199 So the second temple was smaller than the first. 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:45.839 Herod, who named himself the Great, he named himself the Great, changed the scale of that temple. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:51.120 It used to be about two and a half basketball courts in area. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.759 He changed it to be the size of four football fields. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:03.279 Herod literally made the temple in Jerusalem the eighth wonder of the ancient world. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.319 What was so wonderful about the size? 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.600 Jerusalem is extremely hilly. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:18.800 And in order to make that temple mount be almost ten times what it was, Herod didn't just build a wall and fill it in. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.199 He built a bridge over a valley. 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:40.800 The temple platform, which is still there today, still there today, some of the stones in it, there's one in particular, it's more than 45 feet long and more than 57 tons in weight. 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:47.199 It's so big that archaeologists aren't sure how they moved it to this day. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.959 If you went with us to Israel two years ago, you saw it. 00:06:51.519 --> 00:07:00.480 It's not even rectangular, it's shaped like a race car or something, and it's so big that they built around that. 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:14.959 The followers of Jesus come to the eighth wonder of the world, which is all the more meaningful when they came from a village that's like High Texas, population 17. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.000 Anybody been to High Texas? 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.560 There's a nice distillery there. 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:21.839 That's about it. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:28.000 They went from High Texas population 17 to New York City. 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.680 They saw the bird's Khalifa. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.399 And they said, Jesus, look how big this building is. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:46.079 And he said, typical buzzkill, Jesus said, not one of these stones would be left on another. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:47.600 Of course he was right. 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:53.839 In the year 70, the Romans invaded Jerusalem, burned the whole temple down. 00:07:54.079 --> 00:08:01.199 If you've seen Jewish, um, usually you see Jewish men doing this, praying at the wailing wall of the Western Wall. 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.439 That's a retaining wall. 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:05.519 That was not part of the temple. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:10.480 That was what Herod built up to make the Jerusalem Acropolis. 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:12.319 The city above the city. 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.399 That was the Temple Mount. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:15.920 It's enormous. 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:17.920 The Western Wall is huge. 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.040 And it's a retaining wall, not the temple. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:29.439 And Jesus has this sense that this grand eighth wonder of the world is not going to last. 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:40.879 Now, we could hear this story as many of our Christian brothers and sisters have for the last 2,000 years. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.200 When and how will this happen? 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:53.519 Such that we hold the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and look for who is the Antichrist? 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.240 Is it the Ayatollah Kumani? 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:59.440 Probably not. 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.039 Is it Kim Jong-il? 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:05.360 Probably not. 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.679 For 2,000 years we've wondered, eventually somebody will probably be right. 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:11.360 The world will end. 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.159 The best selling fiction series ever. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:15.360 Does anybody know? 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.679 It is not Harry Potter. 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:23.200 It is Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:30.159 That's because we're so interested in the when and how. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.360 And I want to tell you, I've read the scripture differently today. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.000 If you want that, I can't give it to you. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:37.200 And nor can anybody. 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.039 Like I said, eventually somebody will get it right. 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.600 I used to belong to a church in 1988. 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.799 There was a really influential book called 88 Reasons the World's Gonna End in 1988. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.360 And we had a prayer meeting and we were there ready for the world to end. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:52.000 And you know what? 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:52.399 It didn't. 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:53.840 It's a little embarrassing. 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:59.600 There was a sequel to that book called 89 Reasons the World is Going to End in 1989. 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:01.519 And can I tell you a reason 89? 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.679 It didn't end in 1988. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:04.559 That was it. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.720 Eventually somebody's gonna get this right, but I do think that's what Jesus is about today. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:28.399 I want to tell you, I think Jesus is suggesting, frankly, we tend to focus on these 57-ton stones in our faith life, but those things are gonna fall without the regular ordinary shims and mortaring that it takes to sustain those things. 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.399 And I'm gonna tell you that by way of a story. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:34.240 Once upon a time I had a daughter. 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:48.720 I still have her, but when she was first born, she had this really interesting idiosyncrasy, which was that the best way to put her to sleep was not by swaddling her up or singing to her or bouncing to her, it was to put her in a baby bjorn. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.000 I don't know if you know what that is. 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.480 It's sort of like a little shoulder harness, and you put the baby in a pouch. 00:10:55.279 --> 00:11:00.879 Some people are really successful using the baby bjorn where the baby looks at your chest. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.480 That induced like almost vomiting from my child. 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.720 So we had to turn her around. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:13.759 So when baby was tired, we put her in the bjorn and I walked the dogs or something. 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.480 If I stopped moving, she woke right up. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:22.480 So if I was folding the laundry in the bjorn, I was picking up the towel and sort of dancing around. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.000 You know how this is, right? 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:25.120 Every kid's different. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.159 Well, she would fall asleep. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:29.840 It looked like her neck had broken. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:36.720 And there she was on the baby bjorn with her little broken neck drilling out of the side while I walked my dogs for two or three miles. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:41.759 It was fine when she was six pounds, six ounces. 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.039 Two years later, she was north of 30 pounds. 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:49.679 And of course, what happened to my posture was not good. 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.399 I found my shoulders really coming forward and my neck like this as well. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:12:04.000 So I bought a backpack, a hiking backpack where you can put baby in the backpack, thinking this would correct my posture. 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.320 She didn't like it as much, uh, and it did not correct my posture. 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:12.080 It just actually made things hurt a whole lot worse, sadly. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:18.080 So I was looking for the dramatic fix, and first I did like a life event unique to me. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:19.759 I went to a chiropractor. 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.559 Oh my god, it's so scary. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.000 All those snaps and pops and twisting your neck. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.120 I thought, surely, that's gonna do it. 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.919 No, no, no, it did not do it. 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:45.600 I went back to the chiropractor, not for the not for the neck break thing, but you know, they took like a butter knife that was smooth, it wasn't serrated, and they put some like petroleum jelly on my muscles. 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.480 This is called grastin, if you've ever heard of it. 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:53.200 And they just put all of their weight on it and rubbed up and down like that. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:57.919 And I could feel all of these little knots underneath my skin. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:00.159 Hurt. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:05.759 I had all kinds of bruises, and I still stood like this all of the time. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.279 So I thought, you know, I am just gonna fix this myself. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.720 I'm just gonna think about my posture all of the time. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:18.399 You know that thing where you imagine there's a string on your head pulling straight up? 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.480 It works great until your cell phone rings. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:25.840 And then when you look at it, guess what happens? 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:33.200 Works great until you have to like get the keys out of your pocket or you think about breathing. 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:40.159 It works great until you think about anything else, you know, which is pretty much all the time, which I want you to know it means it doesn't work great. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:45.200 So, my sister-in-law, who's a chiropractor, said, Hey, I've got mixed news for you. 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.159 You will not fix your posture by thinking about it. 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:53.600 Because the minute you stop thinking about it, which is all the time, it's just gonna go back down. 00:13:53.759 --> 00:14:00.240 The only way you can fix your posture is by doing these exercises. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.279 Now I don't mind exercising. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:09.200 I don't mind, but I like exercise to be a significant event. 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:28.799 I like it to be something that has like metals attached to it, or like times that I can beat my time, or some external evidence that I can readily verify, like yes, you exercise, like soreness, or something. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.480 That was not what she gave me to do. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:41.440 What she gave me to do were these little things that I had to do like every single day for 15 minutes or more. 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:45.600 And I didn't feel sore after them. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:47.519 I didn't feel tired. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:53.360 I did him for several days, and I just thought, I know this is working. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.600 Silly looking things, mind you. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:57.279 I'll show you one of them. 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:07.679 I had to put my thumbs up like this and get down on my fists and lean forward and then just pick my arms up like this from one to the other. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.759 Now I did this outside of my home because I was exercising in the morning. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.120 I didn't want to pick my kids up. 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:20.080 And people who are jogging by or walking by are looking at this guy out here raising the stumps. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:26.000 I had to do sets of like 50 of those, like three sets of 50. 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:27.679 There's no resistance. 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:43.279 Of course, you know, what's funny is that doing those things faithfully, those boring things, took the load off my scapula and pulled my scapula back. 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:49.279 And once my scapula were back, you know, having my neck like this was no longer comfortable. 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.960 It it strangely, it becomes more comfortable if you slouch everything. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:57.200 But when your shoulders are back and your neck is forward, it really hurts. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.799 So my body picked this up on its own and pulled my neck back. 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:25.759 I want to suggest to you that Jesus might just be reminding us that our faith life is not in these mega blocks, it's in these little seemingly insignificant, almost non-measurable physical therapy exercises. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:31.519 The truth is you cannot fix your posture by thinking about it. 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:33.360 You cannot. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:40.480 You have to re-engineer your posture through what we call the daily grind. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.799 The daily grind is not about coffee. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.399 At the time of Jesus, women made bread. 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.080 90% of your diet was bread. 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.639 90% good luck being keto at the time of Jesus. 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:01.120 It took women five and a half hours to produce a two-pound loaf of bread. 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.679 That was the daily grind. 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:09.039 Now I have to tell you, I do the cooking and shopping in my home. 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:19.200 And uh those sorts of repetitive tasks are not where I like to put my emotional and spiritual energy because the thing is I have to do them again tomorrow. 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:33.119 Cooking is one thing because I'm gonna make something different, but emptying the dishwasher or watching a towel get used one time and then put in the wash, I'm gonna have to fold it again. 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:35.119 Wash it again. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:41.279 Those are the things that can be so tiring. 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:49.920 Because I like to go from something exciting to something equally or more exciting. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:54.720 And folding towels is just not really exciting. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:00.799 You can watch YouTube's different folds for Thanksgiving. 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.839 There are turkey folds you can do to your towels. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:05.759 I don't find that exciting. 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:11.759 It's even more depressing because my turkey does not look like the sample turkey. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:18.960 I want to suggest to you though, that life is not made up of boulders, life is made up of days. 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:24.559 And you can talk to anybody who does AA or NA or OA. 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:30.240 If you have to think about a life of sobriety, it is crushing. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.480 About a day is all you can do. 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:36.319 A day at a time. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:43.440 Thinking about how many times I'm going to unload the dishwasher this year, I'm going to tell you it takes me to a really sad place. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:46.640 Do not think about that. 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:55.519 Think instead about how you can be present, I think, in ordinary moments. 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.440 Ordinary moments of faith. 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:15.920 And I want to suggest to you that part of what we do tacitly, implicitly, we our habits already tell us where our value is, and they already program quite frankly where we're going to find ourselves. 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:18.799 So I'm just going to give you one of my examples. 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:21.920 I really like being efficient and productive. 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:30.640 And when I have time, like let's pretend I'm in a line at the supermarket and I can tell it's going to be a while to use the time. 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.839 Well, I just pull out my mobile device. 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.039 I don't clog up the line. 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:38.319 I'm not slow. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:40.559 I've got my payment ready. 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.960 You know, you've been to the store and people are surprised they have to pay, but it's not me. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:47.359 I'm ready. 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.200 But so that I don't waste my time, I've got my fun. 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:59.680 Sometimes the first thing I do when I get up is just have a look at what's happening in the world. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:05.279 Sometimes, right before I go to bed, I just have a look. 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:20.000 And of course, what I'm wiring my brain to do is always look for value and excitement and energy somewhere other than where I am. 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.799 I don't want to tell you that's wrong. 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:29.680 I just want to tell you we don't normally think that that's what we're doing to ourselves. 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:37.359 And boy, if that's where we put our value, our faith life is going to be really hard. 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.920 Because in my faith life, I've got four or five of those blocks. 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:43.920 I don't have a thousand of them. 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:48.880 Four or five of those 57-ton blocks. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.480 One of them was when I got ordained to the priesthood. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.160 When I got ordained to the diaconate, that was one of my blocks. 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:57.839 Interestingly enough. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.319 And most of y'all out there aren't ordained. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:02.640 So I've got one you don't have. 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.319 One! Not a thousand. 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:13.680 The question, I think, is that we often look at these big moments where we just get it. 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:19.279 And instead, maybe what we ought to be looking at is that the mortar that holds those moments up. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.799 The mortar without which those big blocks they turn over. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:27.359 The way that those blocks are carried treated. 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:37.359 The difference, I think, between extreme faith and being extremely faithful. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:44.640 Extreme faith is about acts, about encouraging the headlines. 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.240 Extreme faith is about the daily grind. 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:56.720 It's about showing up over and over and over again why the people that you care about. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:07.039 The truth is, and we talked about this with All saints, the She Ros and Heroes in my faith life are not the ones who showed up one time. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:09.119 I think those people are neat. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:16.559 The people who showed up over and over and over again, especially when I made it hard for them. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:24.079 Those other blocks, I'm worried, they just don't last. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.519 Because the truth is life goes on after that block happens. 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:35.440 Now I had a good friend who told me once upon a time, most of us sit in the same seat. 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:36.880 You know, I'll let you know. 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:38.319 I'm kind of the worst at it. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:41.119 I pretty much sit in the same seat every Sunday. 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:47.519 And he said, you know, sometimes we like to berate people because we're creatures of habit, and that's just where we go. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:23:03.839 But he said, you know, and I think he's quite right about this, we often sit in the same seat because once upon a time, one time, maybe it was the lighting or the way the music came or somebody at the piece went out of their way and we felt really friendly to us. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.559 There was something that happened to us in that seat. 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.759 Something in that seat that made life a little brighter that morning. 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:13.200 So we come back. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.039 We're faithful to that block. 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:29.920 We put ourselves in the same posture to go back there again and again instead of saying that we're done with it. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:42.559 And I wonder if Jesus isn't saying, listen, instead of worrying there won't be tomorrow, what are you gonna do with your last day on the planet? 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.759 Let's pretend there's not gonna be tomorrow. 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:49.680 And how are you gonna be faithful with your last day on the planet? 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:57.440 Instead of how you're gonna be wild and crazy and spend all this and stuff, how are you gonna live today faithfully? 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:01.839 The way that you're not most excited about, the way you're most proud of. 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:05.680 Spend your time on that mortar. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:15.359 And if your mortar's different, then hey, instead of looking at the phone, first thing when you wake up, think, man, I don't know if I got enough sleep or not. 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.640 How am I going to be grateful for what I have today? 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:24.559 At the end of the day, maybe after you look at the Facebook feed and see how everybody's doing. 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:32.720 Build in some time to say, can I stretch to think how God showed up in my life just once today? 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:42.799 Where our treasure is, is our heart, but you know what we don't usually remember is where our habit is, frankly, is where our heart is. 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:52.079 I think that's why Paul says, people who are idle don't eat. 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:56.079 I don't think he's talking about it as explicitly as it sounds. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:04.400 I think what he's saying is people who don't do the work of living into this kind of holiness are not nourished by what they're doing. 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:10.480 And I want to suggest to you ultimately that's the real criterion for our faith practices. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.640 Are they nourishing us? 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:15.680 Are they feeding a hungry world? 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:16.240 Are they? 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.119 Or are they just taking us away from it all? 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.079 I am sure God wants us here. 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:32.000 I am sure God wants us to do the work of being nourished. 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:40.640 And more sure of that than anything, I am sure God wants our faith practices to nourish other people in the world. 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:44.160 Tough order for the week. 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:52.000 Join me in spending some time thinking about where it is we put our praise in the temples that we're living into.