Hey, good morning you guys. All right. I hope you can grab your coffee. Let's just make a promise right up front. If you stay with me to the end of this episode, I'm going to give you one simple sentence that you can say today. When your mind starts spinning, when you start replaying the past, when you start worrying about the future, one simple sentence that is going to help you find rest. Now, I'm not talking about the

kind of rest you get from a nice nap, not a vacation kind of rest. I mean, soul rest, like peace,

like shalom, peace, rest. So stay with me to the end of the episode. So today, I believe that you

are going to look for rest in one of two

places. You're either going to try to find rest by understanding your life, figuring out all of

the problems, knowing where you are, knowing where you came from, where you're going,

and making it all work. Or you'll find rest by simply trusting

in the one who already understands everything, including your life, where it's going, where

you've been, and how it's all going to work out today. If you think about it, all of us are

junior theologians. We're junior scientists. We want to be archaeologists

and philosophers because God made us to want to find the meaning in our lives. Think about it.

We don't just live life. We want to understand life. We want to analyze it. We we want to interpret it we want to pick through it

like we're doing a forensic investigation here's an example think of a little girl who asks

her mom an endless stream of why questions why why why have you had that happen why is the sky blue

mommy why do people die mommy why do I have to go to bed?

Mommy, why do I have to eat my vegetables? Now, the little girl isn't being annoying. She's just being a human.

We want to know why. We have an inner drive to understand. And then, of course, there's the teenager who hits a season when he seems a little lost.

And he's asking why?

Why me?

Why not somebody else?

Why isn't it this other way?

He's trying to figure out who he is.

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