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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, thank you for listening to you our

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Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each

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Speaker 1: day to learn more about God and his will for us.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Carol McCracken, and after a short work

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Speaker 1: from our sponsor, we'll dive into today's Bible Verse. I'm

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Speaker 1: thirty one to fifteen Today's Bible verses song thirty one fifteen.

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Speaker 1: My times are in your hands. If you've ever felt

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Speaker 1: like your life is ruled by your schedule, Today's verses

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Speaker 1: for you. I live a very scheduled life as a

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Speaker 1: wedding planner, a pastor, and a podcaster. My days don't

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Speaker 1: just fill up, they overflow. If it's not on the calendar,

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Speaker 1: it usually does happen. Even things like rest, exercise or margin.

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Speaker 1: I have to schedule those two otherwise they get pushed

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Speaker 1: asigned by what feels urgent. And there are seasons, honestly

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Speaker 1: more than i'd like, where I realize I have no

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Speaker 1: margin at all. I can feel it in my body

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Speaker 1: and my thoughts and even in my reactions. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: the only way I can stop working is to physically leave.

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Speaker 1: I have to get out of my office or my house,

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Speaker 1: or I'll just keep going. Maybe you've felt that too,

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Speaker 1: like if you don't hold it all together, everything might

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Speaker 1: fall apart. And yet, sitting in my home, or two

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Speaker 1: clocks that don't work. What is a grandfather clock that

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Speaker 1: belong to my dad? It doesn't tick anymore, it doesn't shine,

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Speaker 1: It just stands there, still, quiet and unmoving. And then

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Speaker 1: there's a clock in my kitchen that's been wrong for

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Speaker 1: a long time. It doesn't rush me, it doesn't remind

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Speaker 1: me of what's next. It just exists. And every once

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Speaker 1: in a while I look at those clocks and think,

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Speaker 1: what would it feel like to not be ruled by

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Speaker 1: time like this? That question brings us to Psalm thirty

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Speaker 1: one and to David. David is one of the most

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Speaker 1: well known figures in the Bible. He's actually my favorite

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Speaker 1: person in the Bible. He was a shepherd boy who

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Speaker 1: became a warrior, a fugitive who became a king, and

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Speaker 1: a man described as someone after God's own heart. He

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Speaker 1: wrote many of the songs, and what makes his writing

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Speaker 1: so powerful is how honest it is. David doesn't clean

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Speaker 1: up his emotions for God, he brings them fully, and

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Speaker 1: so thirty one is one of those raw, honest prayers.

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Speaker 1: This isn't David sitting in a palace with everything under control.

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Speaker 1: This is David in distress. He's surrounded by enemies, facing betrayal,

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Speaker 1: and unsure of what's coming next. His life feels unstable, uncertain,

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Speaker 1: and pressured. And in the middle of that, he says,

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Speaker 1: my times are in your hands. The word times is

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Speaker 1: so important in the Hebrew. It carries the idea of

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Speaker 1: appointed times, seasons, and moments. It's not just about minutes

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Speaker 1: and hours. It's about the unfolding of a life, the

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Speaker 1: timing of events, the rise and all of circumstances. The

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Speaker 1: moments that feel too early, too late, are completely out

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Speaker 1: of control. David is saying, God, you hold all of it,

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Speaker 1: the timing of my life, the outcomes I can't control,

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Speaker 1: the moments I don't understand. And what makes that so

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Speaker 1: powerful is when he says it. He doesn't say it

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Speaker 1: after everything works out. He says it in the middle

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty. This is not a statement of control. It's

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Speaker 1: a statement of surrender. And for those of us who

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Speaker 1: live by a schedule, that can be hard, because we

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Speaker 1: often feel like everything depends on timing. If I don't

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Speaker 1: get this done today, if this doesn't happen soon if

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Speaker 1: I fall behind. I'm experiencing some of that right now,

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Speaker 1: trying to get my deadlines met before I leave the

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Speaker 1: country of our mission trip. Don't you feel like sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's almost too much effort preparing to leave and to

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Speaker 1: just stay put it. I generally say yes until I

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Speaker 1: get to my destination, but we carry this quiet pressure

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Speaker 1: that says it's all on you to keep things moving.

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Speaker 1: And David reminds us of something deeper. Your life is

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Speaker 1: not ultimately held together by your calendar. It's held together

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Speaker 1: by God. And that doesn't mean your schedule doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: I know some of us hear this and just throw

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Speaker 1: our hands up in the air. For many of us,

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Speaker 1: planning as part of stewardship, it's how we show up,

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Speaker 1: how we care for what's been entrusted to us, and

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Speaker 1: how we love people well. But there's a difference between

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Speaker 1: using a schedule and being ruled by it, because, let's

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Speaker 1: be honest, scheduling gives us a sense of control, and

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Speaker 1: I create control. It's my illusion of safety. It tells

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Speaker 1: us world track, and it tells us we're not behind,

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Speaker 1: and it tells us where man our lives well. But

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Speaker 1: what happens when your schedule's full and your soul's empty.

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Speaker 1: What happens when you're doing everything right and still feel overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: What happens when there's no margin left and the only

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Speaker 1: way to stop is to walk away from the very

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Speaker 1: place where all your responsibilities lived. That's where this verse

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Speaker 1: meets us. My times are in your hands, not my planner,

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Speaker 1: not my deadlines, not my ability to keep everything moving.

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Speaker 1: God's hands. Those broken clocks in my house, they don't

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Speaker 1: control anything. They're not dictating my pace. They're not telling

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Speaker 1: me what's next, And in a strange way, they've become

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Speaker 1: a reminder. Time is not my master. God is. And

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Speaker 1: maybe for you today, the imitation isn't to do less,

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Speaker 1: but to trust more, to build margin, not just because

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Speaker 1: it's healthy, but because it's faithful. To recognize that even

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Speaker 1: when your days feel packed and nothing that truly matters

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Speaker 1: is slipping through God's hands, you're not behinding God's tiny

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Speaker 1: You're not too late for what he has for you.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to force what He's already or ordained

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Speaker 1: in that company. So today, if you feel rushed, if

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Speaker 1: you feel like there's no margin, if you feel like

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Speaker 1: everything depends on you holding it all together. Take a breath.

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Speaker 1: You're not being held together by your schedule. You're being

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Speaker 1: held by God. My times are in your hands. Will

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Speaker 1: you pray with me, dear Lord in heaven. The illusion

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Speaker 1: of control. I love it, and I crave it. I

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Speaker 1: often look in the wrong places for it. I do

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Speaker 1: want to be a good stewardship with my time. You've

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Speaker 1: given me little time and the whole scheme of your plan.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is it is part of your plan.

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Speaker 1: Help me to use the time that you gave me

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Speaker 1: well until I get to the place to be with

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Speaker 1: you where there is no time and I never have

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Speaker 1: to worry about it again. Lord, I wish that for

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Speaker 1: any listener in the same place I am right now.

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Speaker 1: We're not ruled by time, We're not ruled by productivity

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Speaker 1: and effort. Lord, You've got everything in your hands, and

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Speaker 1: everything is going to happen just the way that you

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Speaker 1: want it. To help us, not to struggle against it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe I was talking to me a little bit in

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Speaker 1: your prices name, we pray Ahmed