Hello, welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, we are in Section 58 and 59. The Saints get to Missouri. The Lord says something to them that I want to read to you.

I want to tell you a story about how I learned this lesson that's in this verse. It's

section 58, verse 3. The Lord is saying, I know that you think this is going to work out perfectly,

but hold on. You cannot behold with your natural eyes, your human eyes, the design of your God

concerning what's coming up, and the glory which shall follow after much tribulation.

The Lord basically is saying, look, you can't see what I see.

I've got the big picture.

When things get hard, it's okay.

I learned this lesson, John, with a new technology.

You might remember it.

It was called TiVo. Do you remember TiVo?

Yeah, it was like a VCR, but it was digital. You could record live television and you could

rewind it right there. Before you could put a cassette tape in and you could record a show and then later

go watch it. But this was, it's recording

as it's happening and then right in the middle of the show. Sure, I can pause the show. Pick it up later.

This was huge, John. I don't think the young people out there understand the trials we went through

before. Yeah, we went through the VHS years. We suffered through commercials. Do you remember commercials?

Oh, kids see those now on YouTube and they're like, Dad, what happened? The TV broke, you know? That's called a commercial.

Commercials, if you remember, John, they always came at the wrong moment in the show. The part where it's just a cliffhanger, the guy's got

the knife, he's coming after the other guy. And we all knew you had two and a half minutes to go

make popcorn, go to the bathroom. We all knew it. John, did you ever call it when you were watching

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