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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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Devotional. Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive podcast. My name is Mike Bro and grateful to hang with you for a few

minutes today. Man, I hope you've been having a great summer.

It's been an awesome for our family, and I've been praying for all you students

who may be heading back to school in a few days, or maybe it's already started for you.

Man, I'm so grateful for the way so many of you are alight with your friends, your classmates,

your teammates, and thankful for the way a whole

bunch of you students hang here on the podcast every day. And we just finished a little section

in a New Testament called the Beatitudes. It's the intro to the greatest sermon ever preached.

It's a message where Jesus talks about the pathway to true happiness and deep fulfillment.

And we taught it out like rungs on a ladder,

with each rung building upon the one before it,

so if you miss any of it, you can go back and you can check it out.

And I thought that before we launch into what we're going to be doing for the next several weeks,

we would just hang today on another ladder.

It's commonly known as the social ladder.

Every culture has one,

and we all tend to look at it to see where we might stack up. When Jesus started talking about his kingdom, his closest followers began to jockey for position. They began to wonder how they were

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