Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. Have you ever tried fixing a problem in your life

only to find what you've been doing is the exact opposite of what was

needed. Sometimes we do the same thing in our walk with God. In this week's

episode, Francis Chan reminds us that it's not about fixing ourselves,

it's about fixing our eyes on him, the author and perfecter of our faith,

who invites us into a rest so profound it changes everything.

Two days ago I threw out my back and so I did you know I tend to have a lot of injuries at my back

and I did you know I tend to have a lot of injuries at my age and so I did everything I knew to do.

I thought okay I'm gonna just lay still and put ice on my back.

And so I laid like perfectly still,

like all day, all night, ice, everything,

and it just kept getting worse and worse to where I just I didn't even

want to move so then I text Pete my son-in-law, because he's a physical therapist, and I'm like,

hey, my back is really messed up.

I can't walk, I can't, it just keeps getting worse. he comes over brings his little physical therapist table

I'm laying on it he's diagnosing everything and I tell him I man, I feel like I'm doing everything right. I'm staying still, I'm putting ice on it.

And after he diagnoses me, he goes, well, what you need to do is move as much as you can and put heat on it.

Like, oh, that's why it keeps getting worse.

And so now I'm better.

But I was thinking about that,

how, gosh, I thought that this would lead to my healing and it was the exact opposite and how sometimes we do that in our spiritual life, how sometimes we think if I have a problem, then I need to focus on that problem until I fix that problem and then I will have peace.

But I won't have peace till I figure out this problem and so we get fixated on it and then we get less and less peace and more and more anxious.

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