Gospel Threads – Capsule Wardrobe

[00:00:01] Speaker A: So I recently got a new dresser and I was cleaning out my old dresser so I could fill the new one. And every time I go through my clothes, I come across this T shirt that I just cannot part with. [00:00:12] Speaker B: Is it your brat T shirt? [00:00:14] Speaker A: It is not the brat T shirt. That one is a long one. But it is a T shirt from my youth. It is from my first job, which was at Build a Bear workshop. [00:00:28] Speaker B: No. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Yes. I worked there when I was 16 and it was so much fun. And I have this red T shirt with like hearts on it and it says, love is the stuff inside. And I just, for whatever reason, cannot part with it. I get it out sometimes on Valentine's Day to wear it. I wore it this past year when I was. [00:00:46] Speaker B: You can fit into your T shirt when you were 16? I'm impressed. [00:00:50] Speaker C: Good for you, girl. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Thank you very much. Well, now my. I have an 11 year old daughter and it's super fun because now she can wear a lot of my old T shirts, so she wears it sometimes too. So it's like this old. It has a big hole in the back, but I don't even care. [00:01:05] Speaker B: You've got long hair. It can cover it. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:01:07] Speaker C: So exactly how many years old is it? I'm just kidding. [00:01:10] Speaker B: You have to answer that. [00:01:12] Speaker C: Come on. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Rude. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Not that old. [00:01:15] Speaker C: Okay, obviously. [00:01:17] Speaker A: What about you guys? Do you have any thing that you have just held on to for a long time? [00:01:22] Speaker B: All right, can I. Can I answer with two of them? [00:01:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:24] Speaker B: So I have a T shirt actually. It doesn't fit me at the point, but someday it will. Um, it's the T shirt that my husband proposed to me and that I was wearing. And so he had proposed and I was on the way home from a camping trip with my family and they had surprised me and so I was like in a T shirt and athletic shorts and as proposed to, I was wearing that. [00:01:43] Speaker A: Romantic. [00:01:43] Speaker B: I know. It actually is a cool story, but I won't tell it here today. So I have that. But okay. My husband's clothes. [00:01:52] Speaker A: I. [00:01:52] Speaker B: When we first got married, I thought, I'm going to help him and I'm going to go through all of his clothes because he was gone. Like, he has so many clothes that have holes in them. And so like any shirt that had like the fraying around, like the collar or like that had big holes in the armpits, I like, cut up into like rags because I was trying to be super thrifty. But he came home and I was so, like, happy to. I cleaned it out Like, I took care of all of the shirts that had holes in them, like, thinking he was going to be so happy. He was not happy. He was so frustrated. He's like, those meant something to me. I'm like, but they had, like, huge holes in the armpit. And he's like, it doesn't matter. When I'm working, it helps the breeze get up in. But so. So now there is a rule that if he has a shirt that has a hole in it, I have to ask before I throw it away, because I learned the hard way. [00:02:43] Speaker A: That's a tough lesson. [00:02:44] Speaker B: It was. I think it was a good thing we were newly married. [00:02:49] Speaker C: I should do the same thing and ask first, because my husband is thrifty, not because he's attached to things. So, you know, I'm folding laundry. I'm like, please, can I throw this out? And sometimes I just can't. So I. But I don't know if I have an attachment. I can't think of anything super old that I have an attachment to other than my clothes that don't fit me anymore. [00:03:12] Speaker A: Got some of those. Yep. [00:03:15] Speaker C: I think actually probably the thing, the clothing items that are old that I'm most attached to are my kids clothes. Like the outfits that they wore at the hospital or that we brought. Yeah. Or if I have, like, something and I. I don't. I would pick on my own mom for keeping these things, but. Oh, I do. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Some of them will fit baby dolls, like the newborn sizes and stuff. I do have that. My girls, they don't really play with dolls anymore, but they used to and they would have that. [00:03:42] Speaker C: Yeah. That's what I'm keeping them for. Absolutely. [00:03:46] Speaker B: For your grandkids someday. [00:03:47] Speaker A: It's okay. You don't have to have a reason. It's just too hard to part with that stuff. I've got a bin of that, too. [00:03:53] Speaker C: Yep. Yeah. Welcome to the Gospel Threads podcast, where we uncover gospel themes woven through all of scripture and explore what they mean for our lives today. Well, so in our last episode, we talked about Joseph. Are we ready to get into talking? Okay. Okay. We talked about Joseph in our last episode, and this episode now is all about the Israelites in the wilderness. So we're skipping ahead from Genesis all the way from Genesis to Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah, we're going through a lot of it. Deuteronomy. [00:04:40] Speaker C: Okay. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:41] Speaker C: So, Ali, do you want to, like, catch us up on what we've missed? [00:04:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I would love to. So, yeah, we leave off with Joseph and his family. All moving to Egypt, and they stay there, and they multiply, and they multiply, and they multiply, and there are a lot of them. And then we get a new pharaoh who doesn't want them there anymore. He feels threatened by having this big group of outsiders just outside the city, so he forces them to become slaves. So we have the Israelites in Egypt for 400 years in slavery, crying out to God for a rescuer, all the while multiplying and multiplying. There are a lot of them by now. And finally, God sends Moses to help free them from Egypt. And he does this partially through a series of 10 plagues. And these plagues put God's power on full display. Before he brings them out of Egypt, he tells them, be ready to leave. It's almost time to go. We're gonna do this Passover meal, which is probably a different conversation for a different day. And he. He tells them how they should be dressed for the meal. Do you have the verse for that, Stephanie? [00:05:52] Speaker B: I do, yeah. So it is Exodus 12, verse 11. It says, in this manner, you shall eat it, referring to Passover. With your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it with haste, for it is the Lord's Passover. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah, so he's. He's telling them, like, you're going to have this meal, but be ready to go. Because when I tell you it's time to go, we're going to go. [00:06:15] Speaker C: It's like fast food. [00:06:16] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly, fast food. [00:06:18] Speaker B: And so as fast as you can get back, then when you have to, like, roast the lamb from. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they don't even have time to put yeast in the bread. It's like the basics. And so it's kind of the sign of. Of their faith in God, too. Like, okay, we're gonna do what you say. We're gonna follow you out of this country. So then he leads them out, and the final, like, great act of them leaving this country is God partying the Red Sea so they can walk through this city sea on dry land, and they are out. One other thing that they do right before they leave is God tells them to ask the Egyptians for their clothing and their jewelry. So that comes from Exodus 12. I'm going to read it real quick. Verse 34 through 36. So the people took their dough before it was leavened without their yeast. Their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they asked the Egyptians for their Silver and gold jewelry and for their clothing. And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. [00:07:33] Speaker B: They're like, that's a bold ask. [00:07:34] Speaker A: I mean, can we have all your stuff? I know you don't have anything left. [00:07:37] Speaker B: I know we've been your slaves, but just, you know, give us all your stuff and then we'll just leave. [00:07:42] Speaker A: And they do. They give it to them. [00:07:43] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:07:44] Speaker C: This is a part of the story that I don't remember from, you know, Sunday school. Yeah, but that's so crazy. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Yeah. So they leave Egypt with all of their stuff, and God brings them to Mount Sinai, and they are there for about a year, and some. Some things happen. So first of all, God gives them the law and he teaches them, this is how I want you guys to live. Set apart from the other nations. We are going to be different than them. I don't want you doing the same things they are doing. So here's how you need to live. And then the second thing is, they build the tabernacle for God. He wants them to build him this place for his spirit to come and live in the midst of his people. And what do they use to build it? [00:08:26] Speaker C: Hmm? [00:08:27] Speaker A: What do they use? [00:08:29] Speaker B: Probably the stuff that they took from the Egyptians, right? [00:08:31] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. They used these fine linens and these jewels and this gold and silver, and they refashion it into a place for God to put his spirit to come live among them. So then after about a year, God says, okay, it's time to go into the land that I have set apart for you. I want you to go check it out. Send some spies, see what you think. So the spies go, they check out the land, they come back and they tell the Israelites that this place is amazing. You should see the land. It's so good for farming. Check out these huge grapes we found. Oh, but the people there are humongous, and they're mighty and they're strong, and there's no way we can defeat them, so we shouldn't go. [00:09:18] Speaker B: Wah, wah. [00:09:19] Speaker A: Oh, my word. Can you imagine? And so Israel is in an uproar. They are so mad. They are devastated. They think, oh, no, why did we leave Egypt? We're just going to die. Our kids are going to die. Just no faith in God. And think about all that he's done for them so far. He sent those plagues. He parted the Red Sea. He's been feeding them with manna like cloudy With a chance of meatball situation bread raining down every day. And now they think that God won't be there to help them go into this new place. And they're like, we don't want to go. We want to go back to Egypt. So. So they start making plans to go back to Egypt. And that's when God steps in and says, okay, you get what you ask for. You're not going to go into this land. You're going to wait in the wilderness for 40 years until this generation of people die. And your kids, when they grow up, they will get to go into the promised land. So they got what they asked for. 40 years in the wilderness. Okay. Did I miss anything? [00:10:29] Speaker C: I think you covered that. [00:10:30] Speaker B: That was impressive. Yeah. [00:10:32] Speaker C: Okay. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Okay. So then we have the clothing piece of this, Right? There's this big thing happening. Where does clothing come in? [00:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Share. So I'm. I'm thinking in my head there's potential for clothing to pop up in a lot of places of the story that you just did. But where are you seeing clothing specifically come up in the story of what you just shared? [00:10:55] Speaker A: Well, what I am finding is it's very subtle and it's like, hard to notice. It's actually later on in Deuteronomy when Moses is kind of at the end of his life and Joshua's about to take over, and he's reminding the people everything that God has done for them. And he says this one interesting little thing. He says in chapter eight, your clothing did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell these 40 years. [00:11:28] Speaker C: Wow. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Isn't that picked up on that? That's like just the one verse just tucked in there. [00:11:31] Speaker A: There's one little verse he says. There's another verse at the end of Deuteronomy where he kind of says the same thing again. He says, I've led you 40 years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you. Your sandals have not worn off your feet. And that's it. This one little verse I think about. [00:11:49] Speaker C: Like, my clothes and how easily we get holes and they get worn down and everything. [00:11:57] Speaker B: We've got cars that we drive in. They're like walking everywhere. [00:12:00] Speaker C: You're not walking everywhere. Miles or, I don't know, enduring harsh circumstances or being at just being in the desert. Yeah, 40, 40 years. [00:12:10] Speaker A: I mean. [00:12:10] Speaker C: I mean, you didn't even want to confess how old your T shirt was? No, we're talking 40. 40 years. Yeah. [00:12:16] Speaker A: Have you guys ever been camping with your kids? [00:12:19] Speaker B: Sure. [00:12:19] Speaker A: For like a weekend. [00:12:20] Speaker C: Yeah, Last weekend. [00:12:21] Speaker B: They're pretty muddy and holes in them and. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, my kids, they're at camp right now and I'm gonna go pick them up after this actually. And we've done this before and so I know that when they get home from camp and I open those duffel bags, they're gonna smell so bad. The first thing that we will do is get a load of laundry going. And that was just five days and they had multiple changes of clothing and kids are doing what they do. They're rolling around in the dirt, they're climbing on things, they' falling down. [00:12:49] Speaker B: I'm thinking even babies, they didn't have cloth or they would have had cloth diapers back then. They didn't have like the disposable, like Pampers and stuff. That is impressive. [00:13:00] Speaker A: Wow. [00:13:00] Speaker B: All those cloth diapers. [00:13:02] Speaker A: The more I think about it, the more my mind is just boggled at this miracle, honestly. [00:13:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:09] Speaker B: And it's so interesting. It is a miracle. And it's one, it's one verse that isn't expounded on that's so interesting. [00:13:18] Speaker A: And some people like to, to explain this away. Right? That's what we like to do. So some people will say like, their clothes actually grew with them. Their clothes got bigger. And some will say, well, no, it was just, you know, they do like the hand me down situation. But like, it doesn't matter how it worked. Like it's a miracle either way. No matter how you look at it. [00:13:37] Speaker C: When you, I mean, when you think of everything that Israel went through just to be delivered from Egypt, why do we sometimes need to like, try to explain, Explain the miraculous away? [00:13:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bigger things have happened, but this is still just such an incredible provision on God's part that. [00:13:54] Speaker C: So I hear you talking then about provision and it, I mean, I think that obviously that's one of the things that we take away from this story is God's provision. Is there anything else that you feel like this clothing is teaching us about God through this passage? [00:14:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I just love how it shows how attentive to our needs he is. Big and small. There's a lot of big things happening around this story, right? Like God is establishing a nation and a priest system and there are laws and all of that. And so it's such a small detail. And yet, like, I know that inadequate clothing has the potential to like ruin an experience. Right. Like if their clothes had worn out, like, have you ever been on, I don't know, vacation with your kids and maybe you forgot to pack? We've been on vacation once where my daughter forgot to pack a bathing suit, and we were going to a cottage. Oh, no. Like, she needs a bathing suit. So we did everything we could to get her a bathing suit. Or we've also been on trips where, like, my kids. Shoe breaks and we're walking a lot. [00:15:04] Speaker B: And that's always one of my fears. I always pack two pairs of shoes specifically because one of them is usually flip flops. [00:15:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:11] Speaker A: And so when you're not, like. And when you're not adequately dressed, like, that's all you can think about. You've got to get that fixed so that you can focus on whatever it is that's going on. And God just took care of that need for them. He knows that even though, like, clothing is a smaller detail than what's really going on, it's actually quite a big. It's a big deal. It's a big detail, and he took care of that for them. When I think about, like, inadequate clothing, for me, I have. It's called Raynaud Syndrome. Do you guys know what that is? [00:15:42] Speaker C: Is that where you're. Like, the blood in your fingers doesn't go, and you get white fingers? [00:15:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it's somewhat common, but, like, it's really uncomfortable. So when. It's obviously worse in the winter, but when I get a little bit cold, my fingers and my feet, my toes and my heels, they go. That's really gross. [00:15:59] Speaker C: Your heels? [00:16:00] Speaker A: Yeah, my heels. [00:16:00] Speaker C: I've never heard that before. [00:16:01] Speaker A: They go, like, completely white, and the blood flow stops, like, going to those places, and it, like, they get really stiff and numb. It also can be really painful. So there's been times where we're out doing something fun, like in the winter, maybe a hike or sledding or walking through, like, a village. Like Greenfield Village, if you guys have heard of. [00:16:24] Speaker C: Oh, okay. I was like a village. [00:16:26] Speaker A: Yeah. I realized that sounded weird when I said it. So it's this, like, fun place in Detroit. [00:16:31] Speaker C: I know what you're talking about now, but it just sounded. [00:16:33] Speaker A: That's one memory that comes to mind. So we were there with, like, our family, and it was Christmas time, and, you know, we have, like, hot chocolate, and it's just, like, this cute thing. But my feet were so cold, and I even had, like, good winter boots on, and it just wasn't enough. And the whole time. What do you think? I was thinking about how cold your toes were? Yeah, I was thinking about my feet and wanting to go inside, and I was having a really hard time enjoying being with our family and my Nieces and nephews and with my kids and the lights and all the fun things that that place had to offer. I was so distracted by my feet being cold. Thankfully for Christmas this past year, my son got. And my husband got me, like, heated shoe pads for my boots. So that's made a huge difference. So now, like, when I wear those out in the winter, it's a completely different experience. I can enjoy being where I'm at and what I'm doing. And so I just think about how, like, going back to the Israelites, if their clothing had worn out and their shoes had worn out, they would have been really distracted from all of the things happening around them, and they wouldn't have been able to. I mean, they did. They did fail here and there with, like, listening to God once in a while. But that's probably another thing that they would have complained about. And they didn't have to because God took care of that for them. [00:18:01] Speaker B: And I wonder if on a very, like, practical day today, it helped them live in community with one another rather than looking to somebody else and saying, well, they're closed. Don't have holes in mind. Do. And start getting into, like, that coveting a little bit or even, like, being tempted to, like, steal that clothing. Then, like, I wonder if God also provided for them to kind of shelter them and protect them from the desire to sin against their neighbor through either coveting or jealousy as well. [00:18:31] Speaker A: That's a really good point. They were already struggling with the desire to sin in a lot of other ways. And so that was just one temptation that. Yeah. That they didn't have in front of them. [00:18:41] Speaker C: It makes me think back to. I know we already talked about this passage, but the Matthew verse about, do not worry about what you will wear. See the. See the lilies and how I've clothed them. Are you not worth much more than the lilies? And so thinking. Thinking about that, too. [00:18:58] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:59] Speaker B: I think even, like, thinking of where clothing probably popped up in, like, your summary of what happened all before this aspect, like, thinking about, like, the plagues. Like, the plagues probably affected the clothing. Right. Like it said, there were frogs everywhere. Like, can you imagine, like, trying to do a load of laundry and, like, a frog jumps out of, like, your clothes or whatever. Like. Or the flies or the gnats or even, like, the. The. The river turning to blood. They probably washed some of their clothes in that. And so they had to find a new way to wash their clothes. I just think it's interesting to think even how the plagues would have affected the clothing. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And that's what they were starting out with right on this big journey. This also really ties back to some of the other things that we've talked about where even in our sin, God is still, he is still gracious to us. Even though the Israelites were being punished for not trusting him, for rebelling against Him. He is still kind in that and he is still living among them, feeding them and clothing them even through this punishment. Just like when Adam and Eve left the garden and God clothed them even though they had sinned against him. Even when Joseph's brothers betrayed him, he showed grace and favor to them and he clothed them. And so this is just another way yet again where we see that pattern of us being sinful and rebellious and God stepping in and saying, I still love you and you're still mine and I'm still going to care for you. [00:20:38] Speaker B: I love to see that provision too. Like what you were saying. I know with me, with my kids, like it brings me joy to, with my girls, especially because girls love clothes. Are you sometimes more attached to them than boys? But like, it just. Do you guys feel it too? Like when you take your kid clothes shopping and you're just excited to provide for them and see the excitement and the joy in their face when you're giving them the new clothes. I wonder if God felt that, that he was able to be excited and just look at your clothes are not wearing out. Like, look at what I'm doing for you. I just think that's such a way that God just shows love in a way that can really easily be overlooked. [00:21:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:12] Speaker A: And I think they did overlook it. [00:21:13] Speaker C: Like, well, they did because even in, in Nehemiah the people are experiencing revival and they're also like rehashing, re kind of replaying what had happened in Egypt. And so one of the things that the priests are saying is that says in Nehemiah, 9, 21, 40 years, you sustained them. So talking to God, you sustained them in the wilderness and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. And then they go on and they're talking about. And yet they were stiff necked people. And it just says that, that word stiff necked over and over again, that they still complain that they committed great blasphemies, they were disobedient and they rebelled against the Lord. And it's something that we just take so for granted is our clothing. And I think that even though as miraculous as those 40 years were, they maybe they were Tired of what they were wearing. [00:22:13] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:22:13] Speaker B: They didn't have any outfit changes, but. [00:22:16] Speaker C: They like, they took it for granted and they didn't see it as the main miracle that it was. And they just were complaining and stiff necked. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we really tend to notice when things are going wrong much more than when things are going well, don't we? We're the same way. [00:22:32] Speaker C: Yep, yep. [00:22:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:34] Speaker C: When things are missing than when, than when they're there. [00:22:38] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:22:40] Speaker B: I think it's so interesting that in the Passover, like, I don't know, I'm gonna ask you guys, were they celebrating the Passover already and when they were in the desert or was that something that was instituted later? I think it was right away, wasn't it? [00:22:52] Speaker C: I. I think so, yeah. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Regardless whether it was right away in the desert or if it was later, it's interesting that God included what they should wear. Right. Like it talked about them having their belt on, like, ready to go, clothed and ready to go. And so we see yet again this pattern of God clothing them, providing for them, but also pointing back to the clothing to show a greater reality. Pointing ultimately not just towards the clothes, but the actual provision of what God had given them, which was for them like escaping the slavery. But for us, really, it's us escaping the penalty of our sin, that we were a slave to sin where they were a slave to Egypt. And I think there's a really great parallel between what the Passover is trying to teach. Even through the clothes that they're wearing that we can learn from too. [00:23:37] Speaker A: It's kind of like those T shirts we talked about. They have like a special meaning to us. When we see them. We're reminded of that time in our lives and, and same with them. When they dress like this again in years to come to partake of the Passover meal, they're reminded of what God did for them when they left Egypt. So cool. So what can we learn from this story? [00:24:00] Speaker C: I can start. Well, okay. If God provides for even these little things like providing for clothes for clothing, then it's a reminder to me too of being grateful for what the Lord's given me and not comparing myself to what others are wearing and thinking, you know, oh, that's super cute on her. I wonder if that would look cute on me. Or needing to always be upgrading my wardrobe or asking like, hey, did you. [00:24:31] Speaker A: Get that on sale? [00:24:31] Speaker C: Where did you get that? You know, just, just being like, really thinking about being content and being grateful for what the Lord has given me. And not so focused on. That's a focus on my clothes, I guess. [00:24:43] Speaker B: I know for us I can share something that we kind of stumbled across for our family. So it came from two different aspects. Somebody at a previous church had this plaque in their bathroom and it said, what if you only had today what you thanked God for yesterday? Oh, that's very convicting. And I think about it every time, like a storm comes through and the power goes out. I'm like, oh, I didn't thank God for the power yesterday in the house. But also through my kids curriculum that I do with them for school. There was this story, and in the story, this character was ungrateful and he was told to go sit out in a field and come up with 50 things that he was thankful for. Well, I have four kids and in a minivan. It's cramped quarters. And the van is always an area where we're prone to fighting and yelling in the car. [00:25:25] Speaker A: You know what you mean? [00:25:26] Speaker B: And I thought, like, what if we try instead of fighting that when things start getting a little tense and headed that direction, we play a game where let's see if we can come up with 50 things that we're thankful for in five minutes. So then our rule is we all have to go around and say one thing we're thankful for and we can't repeat. And it has been so transformational for the car rides for us to just turn our hearts from kind of ourselves, right? Thinking like, I don't have enough room to sit in or I'm hot or I'm cold or whatever is going on in the van to all of a sudden take the focus off of that and bring it to let's be grateful. What can I thank the Lord for? And it has been so great for my heart and challenging too, of just feeling convicted of how come I can't think of things to be grateful for. Like, I have been given so much, and that's just been such a sweet blessing for me and the kids in the car. Seems silly and simple, but I love that. [00:26:19] Speaker A: I think we see that in the Bible a lot too. Like, we are forgetful. We are. [00:26:24] Speaker C: They are forgetfulness, stiffness. [00:26:25] Speaker A: In the Bible, would you say that's the word? But we're all like that. That's human nature. And so we need to remember the things that God has done for us. We need to recall the blessings that he's given to us over and over again. You see, all throughout the Bible, the writers will reference back to this time where. Where God took them out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea. And he re they are reminded over and over again what God did for them. And they need that so that they can stay focused on what is true and God's love for them. So I love that you do that with your kids. I think I'm gonna try that too. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Yeah. What a simple, like a simple exercise too to, to lead them through. You know, you don't have to go. [00:27:09] Speaker A: Out and buy a book. [00:27:10] Speaker C: You don't have to. I don't know, you're trapped in the car. [00:27:13] Speaker B: So you are trapped in the car. [00:27:14] Speaker C: You don't have to get their attention because they are wrapped audience. [00:27:18] Speaker A: They can't leave. Love it. [00:27:22] Speaker B: Well and I think too it's interesting, I forget what psalm it is but there is one of the psalms that specifically talks about passing down to the next generation all that God has done for you. And it just makes me think that that's pro that the Israelite children that were able to go into the promised land hopefully got from their parents of. You know, I would, I would hope that God would work through the parents heart to tell the kids this is the sin that we committed that we can't go in. But you can. And look at all that God has done for us. And I think in a really practical way we can do that for our kids too. [00:27:54] Speaker C: Through rhythms and routine. Yeah, yeah. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Rhythms, routines. Or even just sharing like through our own experiences of this is how God has provided for our family. You know, for us it's, you know, thanking my husband when he comes home, hey dad, thanks for working today so we can go get groceries. Or just trying to instill that heart of gratitude because I think in a really practical way it fights that entitlement that so often I know my heart is tempted to go towards but just to reorient that entitlement to gratitude has been huge. [00:28:21] Speaker A: Like it helps us to not focus so much on ourselves. We can be pretty self absorbed sometimes. So to put that focus back on God and what he's done for us or like you said that the people in your life and what they've done for you, it can be really powerful. I love that. I also like Cheyenne, what you said about noticing the things that God has done for you. And that's exactly what Moses tells the people too before like during this time when he's telling them here's everything God has done for you. Then he tells them how they need to respond. And so I'm going to read that verse in just a second but I think it can be so easy. Just like it's easy for us to miss that verse about the clothes not wearing out. It can be so easy for us to miss the ways that God is providing for us. So we've been talking about this, but just this has reminded me to really pay attention to the things in my life that God is doing for me and then to praise him for it. So I'm going to go ahead and read that verse. [00:29:25] Speaker B: Well, I think before you read that. Sounds like good homework for our listeners to be able to do, right? [00:29:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That's your homework for the week, guys. Pay attention to what God is doing in your life. Yeah. [00:29:37] Speaker C: And maybe verbalize it too, you know, with your husband, with your kids. With someone. With someone. Yeah, verbalize it. Sorry, I'm adding on to your. I'm adding. [00:29:47] Speaker A: Go for it. [00:29:47] Speaker C: Extra credit. [00:29:48] Speaker B: Yeah, extra credit from Cheyenne. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Who knows if they're even doing it? [00:29:52] Speaker C: I know. I. I actually was gonna bring that up. Is like, I really wanna know, like, is. Is anyone doing these assignments? And has anyone especially. I'm like, really curious, have people started noticing clothing in their scripture reading? [00:30:05] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:30:06] Speaker C: So we need to get feedback on that so that we can have that answer here soon. [00:30:12] Speaker A: All right, Are you guys ready for me? [00:30:13] Speaker B: Yeah. You can read your verse now. [00:30:14] Speaker C: Right? [00:30:15] Speaker A: This is from Deuteronomy 8, verse. It's right after Moses talks about the clothing. Then he says, when you go into this new land, you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.