Welcome back as we conclude with part two of Tyler's story began in the last mini episode.

And if you haven't listened to that, make sure to listen to that first.

And we pick up midway through as Tyler gets into what happened to him

that no one else on his family trip had happened to them as a result of the things that he

said and did towards God. And God was about to teach Tyler a very valuable but temporarily painful lesson.

Yeah, she just caught me lying in.

And I said to support my claim, I was like, you know what?

It doesn't even matter that you caught me lying.

I don't even believe in God anyways. Like, what has he ever done for me? Like, I just feel like I'm always

getting tested by him and just suffering and what's to come of it if I just decide not to believe him.

You look at all these atheists out there living these wonderful lives, disrespecting God all the time. And one time I try to like lie or do something to try to

avoid an argument is yeah. So I just didn't think it was that big of a deal. And boy, was I wrong.

And I found some some Bible verses later that I'll tie back in that might have showed me the way

if I would have just picked up my Bible and read it. I might have seen it in that time that, hey,

maybe this wouldn't be the right thing to do and maybe he's just testing me right now.

The four years of just dread and almost anxiety of just not graduating, It was just really draining to me. And that's

why I always felt like I was pursuing God in the wrong ways because pursuing God, it shouldn't be

draining. I shouldn't be so scared of him that I'm losing sleep. I'm thinking he's not going to be

there for me. I'm thinking he's just going to take away my exam scores and my diploma and my

jobs. And I just think when I graduated, it was almost like a weight off my shoulders. Like,

okay, now I can live the life that I want to live. And nothing can be taken away for me. That

diploma is going to get me throughout life and I'll be able to do whatever I want with it. I'll get the

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