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Today we are going to live, live? Oh I like that. I usually say we're going to take, but no, today

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we are going to live in a posture of peace by being astonished.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Jeremiah 32 verse 17, and I'm going to read it just as it is written because there are a lot

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of exclamation marks in this scripture, okay? Get ready for it. Ah, Lord God, you have made the

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heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arms. Nothing is too hard for

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you. Here's what I love. Here's what I love about this scripture. I love Jeremiah's absolute

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astonishment when he realizes who God is. I want to live here. I want to live in astonishment of

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who my God is. I want to live so constantly aware of his presence in my life that I am constantly

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overwhelmed by his goodness, no matter what is happening around me. Here's what I've discovered.

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I've been practicing this, by the way, living in this delight, in this awe, in this astonishment,

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and here's what I've discovered in practicing living in astonishment. When you are overwhelmed

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by who God is, you cannot be overwhelmed by anything else. When you are overwhelmed by who

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God is, there is no room to be overwhelmed by anything else. And now I know there is so much

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happening in the world right now. There has always been a lot happening in the world. It's a

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big world with a long history that doesn't negate what's happening presently in our world,

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but with the power of technology and the constant communication and connection to each other,

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we are exposed to so much that is happening in the world all the time, anytime, and it can be

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overwhelming. And if we are not aware, if all of our awe and astonishment and reverence gets spent

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and poured out at the feet of this world's brokenness, we will have no worship left for the

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feet of King Jesus. He is worthy of our astonishment and praise. He is worthy of our awe

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and attention. He is worthy of our focus and our attitude and our thoughts and our emotions.

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When our worship, when our astonishment, when our overwhelm is secure in him,

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we operate differently. We live differently. We show up in this world differently.

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In 2 Corinthians 13 5, Paul asks the Corinthians, do you not realize about yourselves that Jesus

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Christ is in you? Galatians 2 20, Colossians 1 27, there are so many scriptures that confirm this

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truth. God lives in victory and God lives in us and we live in God. So we live in victory

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in every circumstance, in every trial, at every point in history. God's sons and daughters live

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in victory. We don't live average lives. We don't live powerless lives. We don't live

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susceptible lives. We don't live defeated lives. We live victorious lives. Now you might be thinking,

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Lindsay, are you saying that I'm just supposed to ignore all the pain that is suffering

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and the pain and the suffering that is happening to me or that is happening around me right now

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that seems very insensitive? No, I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that you face

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that pain and suffering. You get in the middle of it. You enter into it with an awareness that

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you have victory over it because victorious Jesus is living in you. If it's happening to you,

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it is happening to him. That's how close, that's how one you are with him. Let that astonish you

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today. Be overwhelmed by his absolute goodness. You're not alone. We're not alone. We haven't

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been left alone here. If it's happening to us, it's happening to him. He is aware,

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so we can remain aware of who he is. Nothing is too hard for him, so nothing is too hard for you.

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Let that sink in. Let that truth dictate your next move, whether it be in conflict, in grief,

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in pain, in suffering. Know who he is and know who you are becoming in him.

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I want to read an astonishing scripture from Romans 8, okay? Romans 8 chapter,

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I'm sorry, Romans chapter 8, let's see, it is verse

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18, and I'm going to read through 21, okay?

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Just let this sink in.

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It says, I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that

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will be revealed in us.

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For the creation waits in eager expectation, some translation says, with eager longing

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for the revealing of the children of God.

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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the one who

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subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage of decay

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and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

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Do you want to change the world?

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I know I do.

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I don't want the world to stay where it is.

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The world needs to be changed, but the world, according to Romans 8, is not longing for

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different results.

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It's longing for a revealing.

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Creation is waiting with eager expectation for the glory in us to be revealed.

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When we, you and I, the children of God, become aware of who is living in us, we live astonished,

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amazed, overwhelmed with Him, and the life in us will be revealed to the world around us.