What's up guys? I'm Jared Lopes and you're listening to the Dad Tired Podcast, where I'm helping

everyday families learn how to follow Jesus and everyday life.

One thing that's really popular in Christian culture is to kind of ask people what their story is

or what their testimony is for, you know, if you want to use kind of churchy terms, what's your

testimony, what's your story?

We hear that kind of terminology and phrase all the time in the church.

And every time I've told my story to somebody like in the church

or when somebody asked me, what's your testimony? There's even been formal times when somebody

said, hey, will you share your testimony at church? And I have. Every time I do that, it's different.

And sometimes I struggle with that because I'm like, man, why is my story always changing? Why is it always so different? And I'm not like making stuff up in my

store, but it's just, it's constantly evolving. I often refer to my own life, like the Israelites.

If you are familiar with the story in the scripture of Moses leading God's people through the

desert for 40 years. Through that journey,

the Israelites, it depends on what page you turn or what chapter you turn to in the Bible.

Sometimes in their journey, they're like on fire for God. They're trusting God. They're believing

in God. They're worshiping God. They're delighting in God. They're have faith in God.

They're remembering God's faithfulness to them. And then literally like the next page or the next chapter,

these same people have made a golden calf and they're worshipping a God that doesn't exist

and they're mad at God and they're rebelling against God and they're mad at their leaders

and they're mad at everyone. and they're mad at everyone.

And they're just like all over the place in their spiritual journey.

And I often can relate to that because my story, whether if you asked me to share my testimony or my story today, it probably would sound different than it did even six months ago or a year

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