Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
Toppling Trees and Shaky Faith.
Ever wonder why some people seem unshakable despite life's storms while others topple under the slightest pressure? The answer might surprise you, and it comes from an unexpected scientific experiment.
When life's difficulties blow against us—whether personal struggles, global uncertainty, or daily stresses—we face a choice that determines our growth.
Discover how to develop the kind of deep-rooted faith that withstands any challenge, and learn to appreciate the wind in your life for what it truly is—the force that helps you grow stronger.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right. I am Danny Mac and I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right Back in the early 1990s, a group of scientists and futurists built what they called the Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2. The Biosphere 2 was located in the deserts of New Mexico and was a group of closed, interconnected domes on the desert floor. Each dome was filled with the ecosystem of a different place on Earth and was meant to show that if the ecosystems were properly cared for and maintained, man would be able to survive in them a whole lot better than in the world around us. The project was plagued with problems from the start, and one of the things that they discovered before too long is that their trees began to fall over. Although into each ecosystem the scientists had placed the correct waters and temperatures, and vegetation and animals, even the right soil, they'd forgotten something important. They'd forgotten to put in wind, and they discovered that the trees, because there was no wind blowing against them, there was nothing to cause them to send their roots down deep to keep them solid. They would simply grow tall and then, once they got top-heavy, they would just fall over.
Speaker 1:As human beings, we don't like things coming against us. We do not like stress, we do not like conflict, we do not like situations that we are out of control of. We tend to get all upset and worried about a lot of the things that are happening around us, and it can really rock us sometimes. When we don't see the answers to our situations, we can start to doubt ourselves. We can start even to doubt God and who he is and what he wants to do and be. The reality is we are a lot like those trees in the biospheres. The trees fell because they had nothing to shake them. There was nothing to cause their roots to go deep.
Speaker 1:In the book of James, chapter 1, starting in verse 2, it says this Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. God says we're going to have problems, we're going to have trials. How we step into the trials and go through the challenges that we face really is a matter of our choice, because we are changed as we step and go through the problems. Our faith grows, what the scripture calls perseverance, our ability to stick with it, to be strong in what we believe and to know that God is with us through all of this. Our perseverance, our determination and our strength grows when we face the trials that come against us. And that's what we need to have so that our roots go stronger into our faith and to who God is and to who we are in Him. We believe Him more and more in what he has for us.
Speaker 1:And then that verse in James goes on to say that the perseverance, when it finishes its work, that's when we become mature and we're complete, and in fact says that we're not lacking anything. And in fact says that we're not lacking anything. Our maturity comes from being able to go through the problems and the trials and the storms and the winds and everything that's trying to blow us around and to blow us off track. That's where our maturity comes, because we learn to hang on with faith through each and every challenge that we face. And those challenges make our faith stronger and make us stronger.
Speaker 1:We don't want to get blown around by the winds of problems around us. Right now there's too many of those. We need our roots to be deep and if you're finding yourself today being battered around and tossed around by the winds and the waves of everything that's taking place, go back to the focus that is so important for our lives. Our faith is in God. It's not in man, it's not in politicians, it's not in movements, it's not in anything else. Our faith is in God as our source, our supply, our strength and our hope. Always have a great day, my friends. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac.
