Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair. For the past six years my husband has been

working towards becoming a physician. We spent four years in medical school and now

we're going into our third year of his residency and we're finally

getting closer to him becoming a full-fledged doctor.

And once the training wheels come off, we also know that our lives could drastically change. We've

sacrificed a lot of things over the last six years and we often find ourselves

dreaming of what's going to change one day.

See, our hope to have a house with a second toilet

is usually at the top of our list.

You see, when things have felt hard or tight,

we often find ourselves saying just wait things will get better life

will be easier, we'll be happier when you aren't a resident anymore. But recently

through wise counsel and the sermons at our church, we've been realizing

that instead of living a content life where God has placed us, we've actually just put a lot of hope

in this good life that we've envisioned for ourselves

when residency is finally over. See, we've fallen into a trap that so many of us often do.

We think that we are in control and we think that when we work hard enough

to get the next thing, then we'll be satisfied. But who knows what's going to happen in the next year.

I mean, people die. Jobs are lost.

Economies crash. Housing markets go crazy.

And even if none of that happens, I should know by now from my own experience

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