Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion. It's a podcast that explores Christian faith and

practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor

of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm Julian Fowler, executive pastor at Redeemer Fellowship.

I have come to the conclusion that the, that the cities of Chicago, right? Chicago, the suburbs,

that, that the public works department, whoever's run in the traffic signals. I have, I've come to

understand, and I'm convinced of this, that I am not the problem, that they are intentionally

provoking me. So you're telling me, yeah, there is this conspiracy, there is a conspiracy,

100% against you, not just against me, but against people. Here's what I've noticed. If I'm

in a traffic light, and I'm stopped, no big deal, that's life. I'm gonna stop at the traffic light.

So I stopped, turns green, I go, but there are long traffic lights, unreasonably long traffic

lights. And I know for, I'm just, I know that they have timed them to the human breaking point.

Because every time I hit the long one, like January in the car, every, this would happen.

Well, you also lack patience. Okay, I do, but here's the thing. I always like patience,

but I never, I never complained about the traffic light. You never complained. Unless it's

unreasonably long. And here's how I, here's what's so subjective. Here's what I'm, I'll prove it.

I'm gonna prove it. How long is unreasonably long? I haven't timed it, but I'll tell you how it

works. Mm-hmm. We'll be at the light. We'll be at the light. I'll notice that it's a long light.

I won't say anything. I won't complain. When it finally gets to the point where it's ridiculous,

and I go, what the heck is going on? Turns green. Every time I say something, every time I

complain, if I don't complain, so Google is in charge of those lights. It hears your phone

hears you complain. No, no, I don't think it's that. I don't think it's, I think it knows the

breaking point of the human spirit. And it waits until we break, and then it gets, I think it's,

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