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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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Hey, what is up, everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive today. I'm Mike Bro,

and honored that you would spend a few minutes with us. We are simply trying

to draw closer to God through what we do here together, and it doesn't matter if you're just

starting this pursuit of knowing God, or you've been doing it a long time. We're all on this

journey together, and I just think that's a very cool thing. Recently, we've been looking at five

easy ways to wreck your life. There's this journal that's tucked in the Old Testament section of the Bible,

written by a wealthy, powerful king named Solomon.

It's called Ecclesiastes, and it is the unvarnished, regret-filled account of how he wrecked his life,

and now he wants to encourage all of us, don't do the same things that I did. We've already seen how

he said to us, if you want to wreck your life, let pleasure drive you. Just let your appetites and

desires not God lead your life. You do that and guaranteed a train wreck is getting ready to happen.

And then he said, and while you're out there riding the pleasure train, go ahead and let success consume you.

Let performance define you, spend every waking hour in the comparison trap, and you'll really screw things up.

Talk about an identity crisis.

And here's the deal.

If you live there long enough, you will eventually start doing whatever it takes to win. And most times whatever

means, whatever is at the sake of your character. If you have to cheat, if you have to lie,

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