Is there some kind of an underlying reason why we don't want to listen to people above us?
We have all seen evidence throughout our lifetime, whether it is in government,
whether it is in schools, whether it is in churches, we have all seen abuses of power.
Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of Truth Talk. I've really been struggling with
whether or not to even put another episode out today and just really, really felt burdened by
the Lord that I wasn't sure what He was telling me, if He was telling me, or what He was going
to do when I got to this place. So we decided to just see what the Lord had to say through
me in regards to what I see going on in the world that has been highlighted here
in the last several days. What is sticking out to me like a sore thumb is it seems to me
evident why I have trust issues. I don't think anybody on here who has seen any of my previous
episodes would ever wonder why I have trust issues, blame me for having trust issues.
I think that's just common sense. What I see unfolding before my eyes is I'm clearly not alone,
but it's not just one in three people or one in six people like seem to be the statistics
for those of us who have experienced childhood sexual abuse, but it literally seems to me that
nobody on this planet trusts anybody else on this planet. Let me tell you what I'm talking about.
There is so much going on. Even here in Texas, we have a governor who will issue an executive order
and then we have judges who just decide they don't like that order and they will just decide
to do whatever they want to regardless of what their authority tells them they can or cannot do.
And so what it does is it puts people like the school boards and other people directly affected
by those orders in the crosshairs of, okay, well, which one of these people am I supposed to
follow their instructions? And it just seems like every time there is any issue for anything
that is then put into an order or goes to court, you have this judge that rules this way,
and then they take it to the court above them, and then that judge overrules this judge.
It is just a struggle for power and a struggle for control. So I totally understand that because
for me, I do not like giving up control. I just don't. I had things taken from me at a young age
and I blindly followed a person who I should have been able to trust,
and it did not end well for me. And that person was my authority. Therefore, I do not just trust
easily. In fact, I usually don't trust at all. I think some people start with, okay, if I meet
somebody, I'm going to trust them until they give me a reason not to trust. It's the opposite with
me. I don't trust you until you prove yourself trustworthy. So it's just from different
perspectives. But what I'm seeing in the world we are living in today is that the authority
that we are under is being questioned on every level. And part of me as an authority to my
children or whatever God gives me authority over, that's bothersome. But as someone who was
abused by authority, I completely understand that. And so I'm just wondering how closely connected
these things are. So I'm just wondering how many people who are butting heads and defying authority,
where is the basis for that? Where is the pushback coming from? Really, where is it?
coming from? Not just because you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or whatever. Where is the
pushback coming from? Is there some kind of an underlying reason why we don't want to listen
to people above us? We have all seen evidence throughout our lifetime, whether it is in
government, whether it is in schools, whether it is in churches. We have all seen abuses of power.
I mean, things make headlines all the time. You know, Governor Cuomo just resigned because
he clearly abused his power. Wasn't fair. Don't know what happened. I'm assuming that, you know,
there was a really, really long investigation and a lot of pages and lots of witnesses that,
you know, that it's legit. You know, I'm not placing blame one way or the other, but it's
not surprising because the Bible warns us that power is in money. All of that can go to our heads
and that's why God warns us about those things. But the bottom line is, who can we trust nowadays?
Who can we truly trust in authority to not mislead us, to not guide us in the wrong direction,
manipulate us for their own gain, you know, whatever it is, all the ways that people
in power abuse their authority. And the bottom line is this, you can't. You cannot trust people,
period. You, you, you are foolish to trust people. The only thing you can do and the only
one you can trust is God. You put your trust in God and then he is the one who allows you
to have the discernment, the wisdom, and the wherewithal to know whether or not that authority
is trustworthy. You cannot know that by someone just by looking at them. First of all, we only
see what they allow us to see. Okay. God knows their heart. God looks on the heart. That's very
clear in the Bible. Man looks on the outward appearance. God looks on the heart. Let me just
tell you, I'm not trying to throw Cuomo under the bus here, but you know, he gets on his little,
you know, rebuttal from the investigation that said, yes, he was guilty of the sexual
harassment. And he wants to use the excuse that he's been in, in public office his entire adult
life and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And this is just not who he is. And he says it so convincingly,
like I felt myself wanting to believe this man, but as I'm listening to him, those are the same
exact words that my dad would use. My dad was a Baptist preacher for years and years and years.
And that just would not have been in character for him. And so you want to believe the best
about someone. I think that's human nature. I think we want people to believe the best about us.
And so we want to believe the best about them. But the more you experience life and the more
you walk with the Lord and he reveals things to you, you realize there is no man that is
trustworthy. In fact, no one is even worthy of that without having the Holy Spirit in them.
And then even those of us who do, we still fail. So you can't even say, I'm going to trust
a person who walks with the Lord because we are still in the flesh some of the time.
It's not our goal, but it's just, we live in a fallen world and we are born with a sin nature.
So we're not perfect and we're not going to be until we get to heaven. So I have to always,
always just continue to go back to scripture myself. And I want to point you guys to a couple
of scriptures that I think is just, they're very comforting in knowing that no matter what is going
on, you have to just remember that we can't let it, like this first verse is John 14 one, where
it says, don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and trust also in me. This is Jesus talking
to his disciples. There will be something for us to be troubled about all the time.
It is very unnerving for me to send my son back to Dallas County where I believe this,
you know, tyrannical judge or whatever he is,
Jenkins, county judge, is completely defying his authorities, which is
Governor Abbott's executive order about masks and vaccines. I don't like sending
my son back into what I call the lion's den. I don't like it. My son is a
grown adult and so keeping him aware of the information, you know, he's at a
private school so hopefully they'll have more sense than to do, you know, than to
follow this guy's lead since he's not saying it is for private institutions,
it's only for public schools and things like that. But there is many, many people
that are affected by this and when a governor says you can't do this and a
judge says well I'm gonna do it anyway, it really can trouble us. But what we
have to do is we have to continue to say that God knew these things, all
things that trouble us, not just this one, but in this case that God knew that we
were going to be troubled and Jesus is telling his own disciples and these are
the same disciples that saw him walk on the water, that saw him raise people from
the dead. So I'm thinking if I've been hanging out with Jesus that whole time, I
probably wouldn't be troubled about anything, you know, I'm thinking okay this
guy just fed 5,000 plus people with a couple of fish and some bread, so what in
the world do I have to be troubled about? No, our walk today in 2021 is totally by
faith. Like I don't know any living human being that can say I was there and I
witnessed this. No, none of us do, okay, because people don't live that long
anymore. So we have to trust and have faith that the Bible that was written,
you know, 2,000 years ago is and has been translated and translated and
translated and translated and finally put into the message version so that I
can understand it, and I love that version, I call it the blonde version of
the Bible, and that that is still God's Word and the thing is, and this is
another thing I just want to point out, there's a lot of controversy about that
too, so I just want to say there is nothing that God cannot reveal to us
when we're seeking Him. Bible says if you seek Him, you will find Him, right? Okay,
so let's just say someone got it wrong, you know, like in the translation
somebody messed something up. If I'm seeking the Lord, He is not going to
allow me to to have the wrong meaning for something. He's going to reveal
Himself to me, even if some man went in and used the wrong word because that
Greek word or that Hebrew word or whatever it was was wrong. You know, He,
God knows our hearts. He knows our heart's desire, and if our heart's desire is to seek Him,
He's going to let us find Him, and He's not going to distort who He is just
because He's trying to match up with some verse that some guy might have
misinterpreted. So let's just get that clear, but I just want to make sure that
we all know that in these times of craziness, I'm talking insanity, craziness
that we are dealing with in our country today, we have to remind ourselves to go
back to something that has never ever changed, and that's the Word of God, okay?
That is the Word of God. So what we have to do is we have to stop in the midst of
all this nuts stuff, and we have to pull out our Bibles, and we have to remind
ourselves, what does the Lord tell us? Do we need to get upset about this? Do we
need to be putting all of our time and effort into researching, okay, who should
I believe here? Or, you know, okay, what's on His agenda? It doesn't even matter. We
have to do what we believe the Lord's telling us to do, and if that requires us
to remove ourselves out from underneath someone's authority, then we need to make
that decision, okay? There are certain things that you can't remove yourself
from. That's why the Bible doesn't say, children, obey your parents in the Lord
for this is right. Oh, unless they tell you to do something, whatever, you know, it
doesn't say, there's no caveat there, and you know why? Because the parent is held
responsible, because the child is not in a position to remove themselves from
their authority underneath the parents, okay? But if Governor Abbott decided to
make this state a state that we're all gonna now, you know, worship the, I don't
know, the Buddha, the people, the Buddhists, or whatever, I have a choice, you know?
I mean, I've lived here a long time. I would not want to pack it up and move,
but I'm certainly not going to remain under a leader that is telling me to do
something that is against God's will.
word. Period. End of story. Now, let me also say, and I will tell you, I am not a
mask person. There's lots of reasons I don't want to wear a mask. One of the
main reasons is because I don't like my mouth covered. That is a trigger for me.
It creates all kinds of issues from what I've experienced in my past. I mean, you
guys have heard about the sexual abuse. You don't know about the rape. You don't
know about other things that are really... Those things are triggers for me.
So, I have to be careful what I do because it creates a lot of issues for
me. So, I'm not gonna wear a mask unless like someone had a gun to one of my
children's head. I would probably deal with it then. Okay. So, I choose not to get
on an airplane. I choose not to go on a cruise. There's things that I
choose not to do. So, and I can do that as a grown adult because I don't have to
abide by those things. I just may miss out on, you know, going into a business
that requires that. And that's my choice just like it is their choice to decide
to do that for themselves. But I am NOT going to allow that to completely
overwhelm my mind, overtake my spirit, and take away the peace that God
promises me. That's not how he wants us to live. He just does not want us to live
that way. And there's many, many reassurances in his Word that help us to
remember that. You know, here's one right here that when I was just telling you
like 2nd Corinthians 5-7 says for we live by believing and not by seeing.
Okay. We have to believe that God left this letter for us for a reason. And
although it was written and inspired by the Holy Spirit 2,000 years ago, it is
the same yesterday, today, and forever because it is God's Word and God does
not change. So we have to trust that God knew when he wrote it that we were all
going to be here in 2021 and that we would need to have this to know how to
live in the peace that he says in his Word that he left us. And it's his peace,
not the world's peace, but he says I'll leave you my peace. Okay. So those are
those are things that we just we have to trust in and we have to absolutely put
our instead of our emphasis being on what's happening around us, we have to
have our emphasis and our focus on God's Word. Psalm 62 8, Oh my people, trust in
him at all times. Pour out your heart to him for God is our refuge. Okay. I feel
most days like I need a refuge. There are some days that I have said to my
husband, I think it's gonna go back to bed and just like pull the covers over
my head. It's not gonna let anybody know where I am. There's so much coming at us. I
feel sometimes like we are just bombarded. I mean we are in the
information age, but for the love, like how much information can a person ingest
in one day? It's like my brain hurts, you know, by three in the afternoon. My brain
is like on fire. And God is our refuge. There is no craziness in the Lord. God is
a God of peace. He's not a God of confusion. He's God of peace and he says
he is our refuge. But you know what? If there's a refuge over there and we see
it, we know it's there, but we refuse to enter in to that refuge, then that refuge
does us no good, right? So it's just like what I was talking about with the Holy Spirit, you
know? He is our power source, but if we don't plug in like we would a vacuum
cleaner to the power source, we do not have access to the power, okay? So you
have to make an adult decision, a grown-up conscious choice to put your
hope, your faith in the Lord and allow him to be your refuge. And that is a,
sometimes that is just changing some habits that we have, you know? And there's
a, there's a speaker I used to listen to and she would say, you know, when
something goes wrong, do you go to the throne or you go to the phone, you know?
Do you call your friends and you talk to them about it or do you go to the throne?
Do you hit your knees and you say, okay God, I'm sorry, what was that? And you
tell him, you know? So many people are afraid to talk to the Lord about some
things simply because they don't want to, you know, like talk to God about that.
Well, God already knows what we're thinking and God gave us our emotions, so
there's nothing we're gonna hide from him. So anything that stresses us out, he
wants us to take it to him, you know? Cast your cares, cast your burdens at on, on
the Lord, you know? And so I just feel like sometimes we just need to stop and
we need to remember that we can suck in all this information...
from all these different news sources,
back channels, mainstream, everywhere,
but sometimes you need to turn it off
and we need to pull out our Bible
and we need to say, okay God,
I've heard literally what everyone else
on the planet says today.
What are you telling me?
What do you say to me today?
And that is the takeaway.
It is, is your trust gonna be in the news media?
Is your trust gonna be in the county judge?
Is your trust gonna be in the governor,
the president, the military?
You know, where are you putting your trust?
And I, for one, know that I cannot
and will not trust anyone but the Lord.
And that is hard sometimes
because you feel like you're on an island,
but even if there was no one with you,
then Jesus is enough.
And that is, for me, it's just very reassuring.
And I want to encourage you
that if you do not have that relationship with him,
you can't even relate to what I'm talking about.
You have to have a relationship,
which requires reaching out
and inviting him into your life.
And so if you do not have that,
I'm gonna encourage you either to send an email,
which we will put the link in this,
in under the show notes,
or if you know somebody that is a Christian,
you know, we are all very excited
to share our Savior with other people
because right now that's the one thing
that is missing in this world is Jesus.
We tried to take him out of schools.
We tried, we have taken,
we've taken him out of churches,
which is just unbelievable for me to think about that.
But we have, and removing him has done nothing
but make it worse for all of us.
So I just want to encourage you to reach out to us
or somebody that you know that can help you
to find the Lord and to start your walk with him
because nothing else is going to satisfy
or is going to bring peace
that I know we all so desperately long for
in the craziness of this world.
So I just want to thank everyone for joining us today
and invite you to come back next week
on the next episode of Truth Talk.