Un-Triggered
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
5.0 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Something that I didn't know I really struggled with until I had kids was how easily frustrated I am when I have to stop what I'm doing to go do something pertaining to something else. |
| 0:13.8 | Like I'll be in the middle of writing a video, writing a sermon, writing a podcast, and a kid will fall off the counter or fall off their bed, which both of those |
| 0:22.8 | things happen in the last two days. And all of a sudden, I have to get up out of my chair and run |
| 0:27.3 | over to see what just happened. There's a story of Matthew 14, 13, and 14 where Jesus has a similar |
| 0:34.8 | but way more astronomically important event happened to him. |
| 0:40.3 | And when he's trying to get alone time to process that event, |
| 0:44.3 | a huge crowd of people come and demand his attention and they become a distraction for him. |
| 0:49.3 | But what does he do? Does he get frustrated? Does he get triggered, irritable? |
| 0:53.3 | No, he gets up and he has |
| 0:55.1 | compassion on them. N.T. Right, a New Testament scholar brought this to my attention. And as I saw it, |
| 1:00.4 | I thought to myself, wow, Lord, I really want to be like you in every way. But in this way, |
| 1:07.0 | I really need. I need help. I don't want to let my situation or my circumstances |
| 1:12.2 | dictate how I feel. I want to have my feelings in check because they are connected to something |
| 1:18.5 | greater so that whatever happens, I'll be okay. And I know that you want the same. So let's talk |
| 1:24.6 | about how we need to not be triggered, the problem with being triggered, |
| 1:29.3 | and the solution to living untriggered. The Bible says in Matthew 14, 13 and 14, now when Jesus |
| 1:35.6 | heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard |
| 1:42.3 | it, they followed him on foot from the crowds. When he went ashore, |
| 1:46.6 | he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. I really dislike |
| 1:51.6 | assembling things from like IKEA or Amazon because I always end up losing a screw or a tool |
| 1:57.6 | because the kids want to help. And so they're running around, picking up stuff. |
| 2:01.6 | And all of a sudden, I'm like, where's that bolt that I needed? And so that's just a little |
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