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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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today's devotional. What is up, everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive, where we spend

a few minutes Monday through Friday, just trying to get the know God better.

And it doesn't matter if this is all brand new to you, if you've been walking with God for a long

time. We are in this pursuit together. And God honors anybody who will humbly seek after him.

My name is Bro, by the way, and last week we unpacked a story about three young

Jewish guys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedigo, who were exiles living in the empire called Babylon.

It's an inspiring story about courage, conviction, and trust, and how whenever the heat gets

turned up in our lives, God will be there to help us through it.

If you missed it, I'd encourage you go back and give it a listen, such a phenomenal story.

And I hate to move on without mentioning their more famous friend, a young guy named Daniel.

You might have heard of him.

You know, one of the more attractive traits in people is authenticity, isn't it?

I mean, in a world of image management and fake profiles, it's refreshing to come across someone who is, you know, what you see is what you get.

I mean, I mean, so many leaders, politicians, athletes, celebrities that we follow only leave us longing for some consistency in our role models.

Teachers, coaches, pastors, parents that we admire all too often show just how human, all of us

can be. And it leaves us hungry for something, someone that's real. Now I'm not talking about

perfection that's totally unattainable and not healthy. I'm talking about just being

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