Howdy friends. Welcome to the show. I wanted to take a moment today to answer a really good question that was sent in by a listener. The question is, how do you get your spark or your love for life back when you're in a rut? All right? That's a great question. At least that question resonates with me because I've found

myself, same thing you're talking about, man, I found myself in a rut, just everything's dull,

everything's mundane, I'm just going through the paces, and you really miss that, yeah, that spark

or that passion for anything in life. It doesn't feel good. The first thing that I

want to tell you, though, is you might be in that rut or kind of in that season for a specific

purpose, man. The Lord may have you there because he's trying to reveal something to you. Maybe you have idolized something for

too long and maybe he's taking you there just to take that thing away from you. Who knows what

the circumstance is? The Lord does indeed work in mysterious ways and he is sovereign. He's almighty.

He's all knowing and he loves us he's leading us going before us

and leading us in the paths of righteousness that he's chosen for us since the foundations of the world man

so don't always beat yourself up if you are in a rut because there might be a reason for you to be there.

It might have to do with you or it might have to do with somebody else.

All right.

So it's not always a bad thing.

But it never does feel good.

It's good to keep that in perspective.

And that's not always the case that you're there for a reason.

You might be in a rut because of your own decisions.

You might be in that rut because of, you know, just because you've gotten complacent in life,

because, you know, you have fallen into the trap of just going through the motions.

And that's on you to assess yourself and figure out, or at least attempt to figure out why you might be there.

And if you do come to the conclusion that, man, yeah, I've really screwed some stuff up, and that's why I'm in this rut.

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