In the busyness of our schedules and the pressing needs of everyday life,

it's easy for us to ignore the things that matter most, things that have eternal significance.

In this message, David Platte urges us from Genesis, chapter 1, verse 27, and other

scriptures, to resolve to live for what really matters now and forever.

We need to be able to answer questions like, who am I? What is wrong in the world?

How can it be made right? And how can I experience life to the full, both now and forever?

The start of a new year is a great time to reset by pursuing life to the full through praying,

fasting, and hearing and obeying God's word. This is the Radical with David Platte podcast.

Here is David with a message titled, resetting our lives around what really matters.

If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with,

I invite you to turn to me to the very first page, Genesis chapter 1.

And as you're turning there, I want to welcome those of you and our other locations across Metro

DC, as well as others who are not able to be with us in person today. It's good to be together

around God's word. And even as I say that, like together, I love what together looks like here.

Like I was just in the lobby here at Tyson's and I mean we have we're together from countries

like Iran and Afghanistan and India, brother who's visiting from India today. We have a delegation

here at Tyson's from the Bahamian consulate who is celebrating 50 years of independence like

who knew like so I don't even know where you guys are in the room but we're so glad you're here like

and that's just one location of few conversations. So it is good to be together from the nations

around the word of God. So let's dive in. Life is fragile.

Yes. Millions of people felt that in a surprising way this last Monday night. As they

watched a football player, Demar Hamlin collapsed suddenly on TV and a merely word spread through

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