There was something I was thinking about many times what we call trouble, God calls training.

Swing it already.

Many times what we call a disappointment or adversity is actually God making sure we're not wasting time. I remember speaking about this on our Christmas Eve service last year.

There was this article I read entitled,

Is There a Catfish in Your Life?

And it was so interesting, I was trying to share with the church that now one of the most popular fishes

in restaurant is salmon.

Back in the early 1990s, if you didn't grow up in the 90s,

you missed it

But in the 90s one of the most popular fish was cod and so I was articulating how they were trying to transport cod all the way from Florida to California.

But the chefs were like, okay, this fish is fishy.

Y'all ever taste fish to taste fishy?

Like I know it's a fish, but it ain't supposed to taste fishy.

It's not fresh and they decided, okay, instead of freezing the fish and shipping it from Florida to California,

we're going to put the fish in this fish tank.

And they put the fish and the fish tank, and then when they got to California, the chefs cooked

it and were like, you know, it still tastes fishy. So what they decided to do was put a

catfish in the same tank with the cod because one of the predators for cod is catfish and so then

when the chefs cook the fish in California like now this is fresh it doesn't

taste fishy what did y'all do? They put adversity in the tank with the cod.

So the whole way to California, that fish is swimming. That fish is running.

And what if God loves you so much that sometimes we have gotten spiritually dull,

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