319: Aaron Mckee - Exhortation: Pessimism is Not Our Calling

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   This week’s class is an exhortation by brother Aaron McKee. The title is Pessimism is the Opposite of Our Calling. He gave this exhortation on September 22nd of this year. So just a couple weeks ago. This was a suggestion and thank you to the person that sent that in. So enjoyed this excitation. I think the message of kind of, I don’t know, we’ve run a few talks on this, just having that confidence and faith and trust in our in our Lord Jesus and, and in God’s plan and in our hope. He talks about that kind of the end having having trust in our hope and uses lots of really great examples of biblical believers who had that same kind of trust and faith in our hope. Should that should translate into, in general, a positive attitude, not a pessimistic attitude, which he talks about. This is really excellent, really well studied. I thought I actually noticed a bunch of times how many references.

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   It’s really well referenced. There’s a lot of referrals to passages that he makes without even pulling them up, which is something that makes it for very easy listening. And I would say, and I’ve talked with this before as well, so I’m, I’m repeating some of my favorite themes, but Aaron has a great voice. I think this is just a fantastic present presentation for a podcast format specifically.

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   I think he’s very easy to listen to. He changes volume quite a lot. You can tell he he has a passion for, I mean, working at the actual craft of the presentation. So thank you, Aaron for for that focus and I’m really excited to share this class. If you enjoyed this one. This is Aaron’s second time on the show. He is also on episode 219 with kind of a similar kind of a similar theme, but an equally excellent excitation. I went back and listened to it to confirm. And it was me that introduced that one as well back in episode 219 two years ago.

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   So here is Pessimism is not Our Calling by brother Aaron McKee. Well, good morning, my dear brothers and sisters and the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s a really robust sound coming up at me, and it’s good to see so many visitors and to share this time around the table of our Lord with you.

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   You know, I’ve been thinking recently on a simple truth about life and the way we think. Something captured in a saying something. I’m certain at some point or another we’ve all encountered and heard in this life. And that’s something that life is, is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to what’s occurred.

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   And again, I’m quite certain that’s a phrase at some point or another you’ve been exposed to brothers, sisters. And if you’re like me, that that’s a statement that rings true in life because it touches on a a universal, obvious yet yet very powerful observation on the way the human brain works. Which is simply that the mind you apply to the events of this life, the daily struggles you face, the obstacles in front of you, that is of enormous consequence to the subsequent actions and results taken, aren’t they?

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   In other words, mindset has enormous consequence on if we stand firm in the face of trial or walk away. If I endure to the end or stumble and give up, if I give myself over to my fears, the worries, the darkness of my anxieties, let myself be consumed by that or hold to an anchor of hope through the storm.

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    And it’s a reflection of this power of where our thoughts so easily lead us that I’ve recently been forced to reconcile something about myself, brother and sisters, the the person I am, the character. I have something I’ll I’ll share with you now. And that’s that I can be a pessimist. I’m not always the happy go lucky person you might see here on a Sunday morning.

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    In fact, I could be quite a negative person. You know, Rose often refers to me lovingly as as her wet blanket. And I, I think it’s lovingly what we can check with her afterwards. But she says that because admittedly, I caveat most experiences in this life through a lens of negativity, Something good happens. I’m I’m waiting for the other, the other shoe to drop. New opportunity presents itself.

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    I’m going to weed out a way of, of how this this could go wrong for me or my family. And and that’s an outlook for and sisters that for as long as I can remember, I’ve applied to this life, but it’s by no means unique to me because whether you are like me, a negative person or maybe you’re a glass half full person, you’re you’re prone to optimism.

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    We all experience periods of this life characterized by that thinking. Life has a way, Bren sisters, of honing that into us to expect the negative by observance of life experiences and human behavior. In fact, I’m going to suggest that many in our world today

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    struggle with that thinking. Many who see events on the news, things read on a phone, and they despair and stress on what it means for their lives, their families, their futures.

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    Many who, in looking to the state of our world, since we’re on a precipice, careful balance before suddenly things plunge to the worst. We read articles postulating impending world wars. We read articles on geopolitical issues more unsolvable than ever. They’re new technologies that threaten jobs, the fate of humanity. There’s worries over financial stability. There’s there’s civil strife that is at a fever pitch. And in many ways, Brun sisters, all these things have produced. They’ve culminated together to to result in a generation of pessimists.

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    Statistics show that of those 18 to 32 years old who haven’t had children, 30% question whether they want to have kids for fear of what our world’s going to look like in the next 20 years.

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    In fact, this is a phenomena many world governments are are puzzled by. They call it the crisis of negative thinking because even if they feel they’ve they’ve performed on a mandate, voters aren’t turning out.

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    Wall Street economists are puzzled by it because even if an economy is rallying, it’s not showing in the sentiments and the confidence of of the stock markets. And it’s easy, brothers and sisters, to as we see these things be consumed in that, to gradually have our minds come to expect that same thing from life, that thinking, thinking we’re in perceiving negativity around us.

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    We apply that fear to the events of our daily lives, to how we respond in the face of trial. But you see Bron and sisters,

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    that stands in sharp contrast to another mindset we see encouraged all throughout our Bibles. Come with me to second Timothy chapter 1. You see Paul speaks directly to this contrasting mind as he exhorts Timothy on on the thinking in which a servant of Christ is to Orient themselves in the face of challenges.

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    We see it in second Timothy one verse seven. He says God gave us not a spirit of fear. Timothy not disposed to that negative thinking discussed before, but if power and love and self-control. That’s especially poignant brothers, sisters, because Paul he writes this months, perhaps days before his execution. He says look beyond that. Don’t live life dictated Timothy by by the negativity of what’s in front of you.

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    Again, he he touches on this in his letter to the Romans in Romans 815. You did not receive a spirit of bondage to fear, but you receive the spirit of adoption, of assurance and peace and love that you are cared for as a parent loves their child. You are children of God, says Paul and justice. Paul is a student of that mind all throughout his life who could look beyond the bleak events in front of him and exhorts the believers to do the same. So too are we exhorted, brothers and sisters. So too do we see that call all throughout our Bibles. We see it in the words of David of Psalm 118. This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it have Joyce’s David. Let that be the disposition of your heart day in and day out. We see it in Proverbs 13, the words of Solomon. Hope deferred makes your heart sick when it comes. It’s a tree of life.

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    It can transform you. A joyful heart is good medicine. A broken spirit drives the bones we see in the Philippians. 4 Finally, brothers, whatever is true and honourable and just and pure and lovely and commendable, whatever is excellent and worthy of praise, think on that, says Paul.

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    Let that be where your heart dwells, says God. And all this to say, Bron, sisters, that in contrast to a world that would so easily pull your minds to pessimism, to assume the worst, to dwell in the darkness of negativity, Scripture calls you to something entirely different, a different standard of your thinking, one that resembles optimism over pessimism, a heart more oriented around joy than fear when diametrically opposed to the mind discussed before.

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    And it’s these two ways of thinking, brothers and sisters, the implication of these two ways of thinking on how you behave as a servant of Christ that we’re going to spend just a brief moment considering this morning.

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    Come with me to Numbers chapter 13. Because you see here in this chapter we’re presented with a case study on these two ways of thinking, aren’t we? 2 responses by two groups of people, two decidedly different reactions to the same challenge. And of course, in this chapter, I think there’s things nothing new to us, brothers, sisters.

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    In it we have the children of Israel arriving in Canaan from the deliverance of Egypt. In this chapter, they commissioned the spies to go out, verse 2112, go out to see the land. Verse 24, they see it as God described as full of grapes and fruits and pomegranates. It’s good. And ultimately in verse 27, they come back to get the first reaction of the things they saw.

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    And what do they say? They say the land, it’s truly as God made it, flowing with milk and honey. Nevertheless, those people are undeniably strong. The descendants of Amalek are are undeniably many. And in verse 28, we cannot go against that.

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    And in that first reaction run sisters in a mind that cannot help but focus to the to the negative perceived reality of what’s in front of them. Is that mindset of negativity discussed this morning. And, you know, I described myself earlier as a bit of a pessimist and I could say when Rose would accuse me of that thinking, what I would do is, is what I do when I’m often accused by things and that’s deny and I would deny and I’d say, no, I’m, I’m not a pessimist, Rose.

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    I’m a realist. And that’s true of all pessimists, brothers, sisters, we self characterize as realist because when we’re in that state of thinking, we’re walking through a looking glass of circumstance, aren’t we? You see reality in front of us and that dictates our reactions. And that’s exactly what these 10 minute dumb run sisters were in seeing the the obstacles before them.

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    They look past the goodness of the land. They look past the promises God made them. They look past the evidence of the power plant and purpose demonstrated in the wilderness behind them.

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    And all they could see was the negative. Only the giants and the fortresses that obstructed their view. And that might be able to be easy to criticize in Storybrand Sisters.

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    In reality, we struggle in that, don’t we? We struggle in being so fixated on the immediacy of issues that that we lose the forest for the trees. We we struggle and losing sight of the bigger picture and plan God has of our lives and maybe forget God and how we respond to those trials. And I say because it’s most true of me brothers, sisters, but that mind to negative thinking that is far reaching effects on a servant of Christ.

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    Pessimism is a door that will lead to far deeper and far more serious issues in life. Pessimism leads to partiality to the thinking of the disciples who in John 4, when they find Christ speaking to the woman at the well, marveled in their hearts why Christ would bother talking to her Because surely God couldn’t use her. They couldn’t see any potential in her. And so, so maybe we do the same, brothers, sisters, we don’t see in our in our negative view of life the potential God could have with somebody.

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    It makes us unwilling intercessors for people. So unlike Abraham, who pleaded with God down to the last individuals of Sodom because he hoped and believed that God could use them, maybe we don’t believe God can save the people of Sodom in our lives. So we don’t try. We’re not ambassadors of Christ as as we should be.

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    You know, maybe we’re just Jonah, whose vision is so obstructed by the political reality of of what Nineveh was, he emitted the grace of God to people. Pessimism dictates how we see each other, brothers and sisters, how we see this community, where rather than commonality, maybe all you can see is conflict, past wrongs done to you by someone or a group of people so that all you can do when you think of them is see negativity making us more judging, less forgiving, less willing to show the character of Christ to them. Pessimism can affect our friendships, where rather than build up, all you seem to focus on as a group is, is negativity pushing each other lower and lower. Pessimism effects our preaching,

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    It can affect our families, it can affect our relationships, it affects our spirituality. Brunt, sisters, Pessimism makes us the man in Mark nine who, when coming to Christ with his son to be healed, says if you can do this.

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    Because somewhere along the line, in face of life’s harsh realities, we lost some genuine belief in the power of God to work miracles in our lives. Pessimism, brothers and sisters,

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    breathes doubt it will rob you of your visions of God, blind you to the opportunities He’s put before you in your life. Maybe I won’t try IT service because I I don’t think I can do it properly. I can’t. I can’t preach to that person because I know they wouldn’t like to hear what I have to say. In short, this can rule your behavior as a servant of Christ. But of course, but and sisters,

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    that’s not the only mind on display in the records of Numbers 13, is it? Because in the midst of that, that panicked reaction, in the midst of the chaos whipped up by by by the desperation this thinking produces, another voice speaks up. And we see it in verse 30. We’re having quieted the people, Caleb says, as a lone voice.

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    Let’s go out and occupy the land for we are able to overcome and continuing in chapter 14, Joshua, he’s encouraged by this. He adds to this perspective. He says yes, the land is good. If the Lord delights in US, he’ll deliver it. Verse 9 only do not fear. Again in verse 10, the Lord is with us. Do not fear.

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    And in that reaction by the sisters in contrast to that mind of fear display before formed in responsiveness to the hardships of life. We see the mind that God is asking you assume in the face of your trials. And there are many things we can remark on in these verses, brothers, sisters in the response of Caleb and Joshua.

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    But if there’s one thing, if there’s one simple thing, we’d reduce it to of what they’re doing here is they had the remarkable ability to contextualize their trial behind the things they hoped in Paul, in his letter to the Romans, commends this very thinking. He says glory in your trials because tribulation produces perseverance, perseverance, character. Character produces hope.

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    In other words, glory in trial, says Paul, because God is working something in you. Have the foresight to see that beyond whatever is currently in front of you. 2nd Corinthians 418 speaks further that says look not to the things that are seen. Don’t be blinded by what’s in front of you. Those things are passing the things that are unseen or what’s eternal.

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    Don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t mean, brothers and sisters, that Caleb and Joshua didn’t suffer or have the same pit of fear in their stomach as they thought about those giants and what awaited them or panic at times that might have overwhelmed. But they had the ability to make these feelings secondary to what they hoped in to despite what’s in front of them.

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    Live by faith and not by sight. Come with me to 2nd Kings Chapter 6 because you see there are many places. We could go in the record of God’s Word by the sisters to see this principle in action, living by faith and not by sight. But I’m going to suggest there are a few accounts as clear, as powerful, as contrasting as the events of this chapter.

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    Here in this chapter, Israel is facing desperate odds. They’re at war with the Syrian empire, the nation that would eventually come down and destroy here in this chapter. They’ve come to pursue the last prophet of God in Israel who is rallying the elect in this nation. And they’re going to get them. They send their armies, their Chariots. They surround the city of Dothem in the morning. And at Daybreak the trap is set.

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    The servant of Elijah gets up and he says, master, what are we going to do? That’s very much our reaction at times, brothers and sisters, where we cannot help but in the face of seemingly terrible situations in life, respond with nothing but loss and fear and despair, because that’s all we can see. But what does Elijah say?

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    He says fear not understand, something bigger is happening here and those who are with us are more than those against us. And praying. His eyes are open. The dark curtain that Shields our vision is pulled away. The man sees the reality of God’s hand in this world. And the mountains of God are full of horsemen and Chariots of fire. And that’s what’s behind your trials, Brothers and sisters, in this story is a glimpse of the active hand of God at work in your life and the world around us. And again, this doesn’t mean

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    that when you come to think this way in life, brothers, sisters, that you’re always going to see the Chariots of fire, that you’re always going to understand with clarity the purpose that God has for you in this moment. What it does mean is that you are cognizant of God’s hand in all things, that through the eyes of faith you have a power

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    to see beyond what’s presented you. Now, brothers and sisters, we have talked briefly about what this mind calls us to do, to reject the thinking of fear, to hold to optimism, and to hope. But let’s reflect for a moment on what this doesn’t mean. And for the sake of time, I want to think on three things.

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    The 1st is that there’s a caricature of Christians in this world of being blind optimists with our head in the clouds. The luxury of pretending that problems in this life just simply don’t exist. Well, living by faith, brothers and sisters, doesn’t mean burying your head in the sand.

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    Where? Because we can see beyond the hardships of this life that we use our faith as a shield for an action or ignoring wrongs when we see them to say to ourselves when we encounter particularly troublesome trial. You know, I I’m just going to leave that one to the Kingdom or I’m not going to get involved in this messy issue because that looks like something that that that that Christ is going to take care of. In fact, in many ways, brain sisters, this mindset encourages the opposite.

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    Caleb and Joshua, they didn’t use it for for passivity in their lives. They used it to ready themselves for the hard work to come, to take up the sword and the spear and to lead people where it was hard to go. And the same is true of us. This mind gives you the strength for action to believe that with God all things are truly possible to arm you with courage to push through and to do greater things in his name to live the words of first Peter one verse 13 we’re setting having said our hope on the coming revelation of Christ. We prepare our minds for action.

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    The second thing it doesn’t mean is that once we have this mind that we can now look down on those who see life differently.

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    It doesn’t manifest and knowledge that puffs up or judgements that tear down or derision or exclusionary thinking or chastising people as foolish because they they can’t see things the the way do that the way we do. Mankind, brothers and sisters, all creation, longs for a breaking of this depressing cycle of thinking, whether they can articulate it or not, or whether they turn to the right source of strength when they’re in desperation or not, they long

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    in front of them that they face in the world. All creation groan, says Paul, for their coming revelation of Christ. And in the same way, brothers and sisters, people around you are looking for answers.

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    So when you have this mind in the face of trial, people notice. You know, I’ll give you a very personal example. Around 4 years ago, a brother I knew, a man of remarkable faith, fell asleep and he had a tremendous ability in life, even in palliative care, to see past what was seemingly in front of him.

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    And that had an enormous impact on the medical staff, the nurses that cared for him. It prompted many to inquire about the nature of his faith that that gave this man such such strength and, and such a trying time. And, and this is something I saw as well, brothers and sisters.

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    Two weeks before he passed, I I called him and while my mind was focused on what imminently awaited him, his mind was somewhere else entirely. In fact, it was worried about me encouraging me, saying things to me that he felt I needed to hear, sharing with me his visions of the Kingdom, things that inspired him in his life because he hoped maybe that would inspire me. That’s what having this mind does to us, brothers and sisters.

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    It should allow us to think outside of ourselves, even in our hardest moments, like Elisha did to the servants struggling. It compels us to share this perspective with those around us, to actively participate in restoring the hearts and minds of people around us to the knowledge of God.

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    Finally, brothers and sisters, it doesn’t mean it will be easy. What we’re talking about this morning flies in the face of what comes natural and and it doesn’t happen overnight in a big loud, one and done declaration. That’s the way I’m going to see my life. And you know, things are going to go smooth from here.

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    This is a choice made in the smallest of challenges every single day. It’s a choice made every single day to transform ourselves by the renewing of our minds, to condition our thoughts. And you know, I’ll be honest with you. Run, sisters. It’s all too often when I’m in the crossroads of this thinking, when I’m faced with these trials, I forget what I’m telling you. I lose the battle of my thinking, and I’m once more the children of Israel, not Caleb and Joshua. I’m once more the servant of Elijah, not Elijah himself. I’m like Elijah, lost in disparity. The Jezebels of my life that have blinded me to God’s purpose and plan for me makes me want to give up. But, but how did God help Elijah, brothers and sisters, when things were that bad?

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    When when life was so desperate? How does He save them? He brings his mind back to the beginning, didn’t he? Back to the mountain of God, a time when he spoke face to face with Moses, a story Elijah would have heard from childhood.

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    Or he made a promise that no, that no matter what happened in life, no matter how how often things appeared bad, he would never remove himself from those who desire to be with him. That they would be his treasured people.

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    He removed the noise and left him with the small voice. And isn’t that true of us, brother and sisters? We’re sometimes in our darkest moments, when we’re up against the most insurmountable odds. That’s all we can reach to as well. The simple things, thinking back to, to quiet moments, personal moments in each of our lives where where you felt and saw the hand of God with clarity.

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    Perhaps it’s a moment of baptism. We’re away from the crowds. You had a moment of quiet reflection and solitude and you talked with God and you knew you could feel he listened. If that’s all you can reach to in a moment of trial, brothers and sisters, know that that’s OK. Know that sometimes all you can be is Peter putting his hand above the water in the belief that Christ was there to grab his hand.

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    Know that sometimes all you can be are the words of lamentations. 3 We’re feeling the Wormwood, and the gall, and the bitterness of life overcomes, Yet this we call the mind. For this we hope, because the Lord’s great love we are not consumed.

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    Sometimes it is just the knowledge of the ever present love of God that’s enough to keep the fear from drowning. So, brothers and sisters, living with this mind, God desires of us. It doesn’t mean we are impervious to hardship and sorrow. It doesn’t mean that if you struggle and have hurt in your heart that you are somehow more unrighteous than others around you who on the exterior have endured it better. But it is knowing that our God is a faithful God, true to His word.

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    It’s knowing our God is a caring God abounding in comfort. It’s knowing our God is one of Psalm 34, close to the broken hearted and saving those crushed in spirit. It’s knowing our God is the God of Psalm 94, who in the cares of our heart are many. His consolation cheers the soul.

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    If we can do that, if we can maintain that simple understanding. You can endure all the hardship that this life will ever throw at you.

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    If you can do that, brothers and sisters, you will join the ranks of many men and women in our Bibles who lived their days and spent their lives in the face of tremendous trials and endured by the power of this thinking. You’ll be like Noah, who in the years before the flood, feeling alone and spiritually isolated, not only held to that faith but grew his family because he believed God could save them too.

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    You’ll be like Abraham and Sarah, who left the comfort of all they’d ever known and they endured childless years and family strife and conflict and hardship and the hope of a promise to come. You’ll be like Joseph, who anyone else would have felt abandoned, knew all those years intimately that he was never truly alone.

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    You’ll be like the prophets of old, beaten and imprisoned and mocked, but they were able to do it because they saw something greater. You’ll be like David, brothers and sisters, a man who could endure trial and tribulation to the extremes, but could rightly say, and truly no, because I have sent the Lord at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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    Therefore, says David, my heart is glad, my glory rejoices, and my flesh rests in hope. That’s the promise of this thinking, brothers and sisters, rest in our hope in the face of what this life presents you. That’s why God so desires you see life this way. The words of Christ in John 16 read I have said these things to you, that in me you have peace in the world and everything else around you.

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    You will have tribulation. But know this, I have overcome the world. You know there is no greater example, brothers and sisters, of a man who lived the by the thinking we considered this morning, then our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ was a man who could have lived his whole life clouded by the fear of what awaited him at the end of his ministry, but never let pessimism and negative thinking stop him from doing the work unintended.

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    Christ was a man who never let pessimism blind him from seeing the potential in those around him. See, it was sinners and tax collectors, but even worked with the hardness of people’s heart for years, even up to the bitter end. Christ was a man who in his most desperate moments, never let the challenge before him steal his focus from the needs of others around him, from helping them even in his hour of need. Christ was a man who and many others despaired and his disciples fled, knew intimately that legions of angels stood with Him that night in the garden. And he was not alone.

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    And there is no greater example to the testament of our Lord’s thinking that even though driven to a point of crying out that the trial he faced might be passed, persevered through the darkest days because his vision was focused on something more.

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    We don’t know exactly what it would have been. Brothers and sisters, I like to imagine it was that moment in the garden, or having walked from the tomb and put his feet in the soil and smell the flowers and felt the warmth of sun on his face. He would have known that it was done. Our Lord was a man who never once deviated from the mind of hope that we’ve been discussing.

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    And ultimately, brothers and sisters, that’s what we’ve come to remember as well, isn’t it? That’s why we gather around these emblems week in and week out, to condition our minds to think as He thought. To perceive a time beyond today, when tomorrow we might take this company with Him and His Kingdom. To look past whatever trial is facing us in the week to come, whatever failure beset us in the days past, and to remember a man greater than these things.

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    To remember that the head of the serpent has crushed. To remember the light of Christ shines in the darkness. And there is nothing in this life that could ever separate you from the love of Christ if you desire it.

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    We’ll end, brothers and sisters, with the reflection that now we see through a mirror darkly. And how true is that? We see through a lens that colors our world and uncertainty, where the events of our lives are are not easy, where struggles are in abundance in our personal lives, in our ecclesias and the broader world around us.

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    But at a moment soon to come, we will know face to face what we have fully known in our hearts. The mirror will be broken, the light of Christ will shine through, and the Chariots and the horses of God will be made known in this world. Until that day we resolve ourselves with the words of John first, John 5 verse 4. For whosoever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory, says John, that overcomes all things. Your faith.

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    God bless and talk to you next week.