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possible. We are in Isaiah Chapter 35. We have been hearing about some ransom people. There is a promise being made

that God is going to strengthen some weak hands. He's going to make some feeble knees firm. He's going to

get all that stuff up. He's going to take your anxious heart and say, hey, don't worry about it.

I got it. Literally, behold your God, which is the same as saying,

watch this. And what are you going to watch? You're going to watch him come save you.

That's what we ended with. And this is what, yeah, I don't know by the time this releases,

of course, this would be not true. But the lectionary text, if you have, if you're a church that follows the lectionary, this week,

you had one of the statements by Jesus that I think people sometimes struggle with.

And he just says, hey, don't be anxious about anything, which is, of course, is like the least

helpful thing. I don't know if you've ever had someone worrying about something, and then

you tell them, hey, you tried not worrying about it? And that's not, like, helpful at all. And so,

you know, when Jesus says, hey, here I got a recommendation for you, don't worry about anything at any time, any day. You're like, gee, thanks a lot. The reason, though, that it is comforting is because of who is saying it. And so what Jesus is saying is what is happening here, which is, hey, you have an anxious heart, watch this. It makes all the differences to who says it.

You know, if you're a little child and you're scared and your dad that you look up to says,

it's fine, don't worry.

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