1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, and thank you for listening to your 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each 3 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: day to learn more about God and his will for us. 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Carol McCracken, and after a short word 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: from our sponsor, we'll dive into today's Bible Verse. So 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: I'm thirty seven five. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by 7 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: a situation that, in hindsight didn't deserve quite that level 8 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: of panic, today's versus for you. Recently, I misplaced my passport. 9 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: Not one of those people who is very careful with 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: important documents. There's a system, there are folders, there are 11 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: safe places. So when I could find out, my stress 12 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: level didn't rise gradually, it spiked immediately. My mind didn't 13 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: go to it's probably nearby. It went straight to this 14 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: can't be happening. I was going on a mission trip. 15 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: This can't be happening when I'm trying to do the 16 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: Lord's work. I retraced my steps. I checked every logical 17 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: place and then every illogical one, and as the hours passed, 18 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: the anxiety grew far larger than the actual problem in 19 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: front of me. Eventually I prayed, and I'll be honest 20 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: about how I prayed. I said, God, if this passport 21 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: is really lost and I need to apply for a 22 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: new one, please let me know today. Yeah, I put 23 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: a timeline on God. I didn't find it that day. 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: So I began the process of applying for replacement. And 25 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: as I gathered paperwork there was misfiled safe found. All 26 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: that stress, all that mental spiraling were something that was 27 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: never truly lost. And it made me realize how often 28 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: we do this, not just with passports, but with peace. 29 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: Today's Bible verses Psalm thirty seven five Commit your way 30 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: to the Lord, trust him and he will act. No. 31 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: Psalm thirty seven was written by David In this detail matters. 32 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: David wasn't writing from a place of theoretical faith or 33 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: protected comfort. By the time he wrote many of the 34 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: psalms like this one, David had lived a long, complicated life. 35 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: He had been annoyed king as a teenager, and then 36 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: spent years running for his life before ever wearing a crown. 37 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: He knew what it was like to wait on God 38 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: while everything felt delayed. He experienced betrayal, family conflict, public 39 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: failure in seasons where God's promises seemed painfully slow to unfold. 40 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: So when David writes Psalm thirty seven, he isn't speaking 41 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: as an impatient young man. He's speaking as someone who 42 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: has lived long enough to reflect. In fact, earlier in 43 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 1: the Psalm he says, I have been young, and now 44 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm old. This is wisdom earned through waiting. The larger 45 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: theme of Psalm thirty seven is about trusting God when 46 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,839 Speaker 1: mine feels unfair, unresolved, or out of control, especially when 47 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: anxiety tempts us to take matters fully into our own hands. 48 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: The words translated commit in verse five comes from the 49 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: Hebrew verb galaal. It literally means to roll something away. 50 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: The image isn't of carefully setting your burden down, it's 51 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: of deliberately transferring its weight. David is saying, manager, stress better. 52 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: He's saying, take the thing that's consuming you and roll 53 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: it onto the Lord. Then comes the word trust. In scripture, 54 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: trust is never possive. Trust involves surrender, obedience, and all, 55 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: but waiting without having all the answers. It means resisting 56 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: the urge to constantly replace a worst case scenarios in 57 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: your mind. And then David adds this promise, he will act, 58 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: not you will fix everything not you will control the outcome. 59 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: God will act. But here's the part we struggle with. 60 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: God acts in his time, not ours. That's where my 61 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: passport story connects. So clearly I wanted immediate certainty. God 62 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: gave provision, but not on my preferred schedule, And in 63 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: the space between my prayer and the resolution, anxiety filled 64 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: the gap where trust was supposed to be. That space 65 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: is familiar to some of us, isn't it. You're waiting 66 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: on a decision, you're waiting on clarity, You're waiting for 67 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: something to be resolved, restored, or explained, and the waiting 68 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: itself becomes the most stressful part. Psalm thirty seventy five 69 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: reminds us that our piece isn't found in quick outcomes. 70 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: It's found in who is caring the wait. David had 71 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: learned through decades of living that God is never rushed, 72 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: never careless, and never absent, even when the answer doesn't 73 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: come when we demand it. What I'd learned from losing 74 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: and then finding my passport is this The stress wasn't 75 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: really about the document. It was about my fear of 76 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: what might happen if things don't work out, and that's 77 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: where many of us live mentally projecting into futures that 78 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 1: God hasn't even written yet. David's invitation is simple, but 79 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: it's not easy. Roll your way onto the Lord, trust 80 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: him with what you can't control, Let him act, not 81 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: because you trust yourself to get it right, but because 82 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: you trust God to be faithful. Nothing committed to Him 83 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: is ever truly lost, not your future, not your calling, 84 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: not your peace. And even when we misfile things literally 85 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: or spiritually, God knows exactly where they are. May God's 86 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: word remind you today that you don't have to carry 87 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: what He's already offered to carry for you. Will you 88 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: pray with me? Dear Lord and Heaven. Thank you for 89 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: who you are and for your understanding of us. That 90 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: anxiety that I had just really wasn't fun, but you 91 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: were using it to teach me. And Lord, I hope 92 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: I learned the lesson, but I know I'm going to 93 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: do it again. And I thank you for being a reminder, 94 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: so gently, reminding me that you are in control and 95 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: that I need to release outcomes. I love you Lord 96 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: for caring enough about me to care about the small details. 97 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: That's not the issue. You care about every detail of 98 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: my life. But Lord, you are teaching, You are faithful, 99 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: and everything in your own timing is because you have 100 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: a plan, and you have a plan for each and 101 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: every listener out there, however they're feeling. And Lord, thank 102 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: you for the sweet hind reminder. In your precious name, 103 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: we pray Amen.