Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

podcast. And today I am going to do a part two from last week. We talked about teams that

embrace rhythms and limits part one last week. But I realized there was so much in that topic.

This is such a critical theme for all of us going into the future that it deserved and

murdered a part two. And so last week we talked about Genesis 215 that at the heart of original

sin is a refusal to accept or embrace rhythms. And the whole story of Adam in the garden when God sets him up and Eve up. And

then he puts this tree right in the middle of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

and says, eat from any tree alike, but not this one. And the tree confronted them head on

with the authority of God that they would simply trust him and embrace their limits of not

eating from that tree. And so there was this theme, this rhythm set up of for them of accomplishing

and doing and filling the earth and taking dominion over it, then they were to trust and

surrender. They were to be active and passive doing and then work, Sabbath, this whole rhythm, that active,

contemplative, that we're all called by God to engage in. In fact, this rhythm is found in all

of life, we talked about from seasons to tides, to light and darkness, and that Jesus had a deeper

rhythm in his own life,

and where he would stop and go into a quiet place and pray,

and that this issue of rhythms and limits just theologically is at the heart of spiritual warfare.

And we see this in Matthew 4 when Jesus, our second Adam, actually embraces limits,

embraces rhythms, and where the devil tries to get him to turn stones into bread or jump off the top of the temple or quickly just bowed him for a second to accomplish all of salvation for the world, basically to grasp. But rather, Jesus embraced the rhythm and limits.

Said no and trusted the father's timing and the

father's plan, and walked down from the temple. And again, quoting scripture was able to

embrace limits. And it's a beautiful contrast of Genesis 2 and 3 and Matthew 4 or Luke 4.

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