Where's Your Emotional Home? | The Writings | Psalm 61

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Where does your mind go during quiet moments in your day? What regularly distracts you? In today's episode, Jensen discusses Psalm 61 and the idea that where your mind goes matters. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 61

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair. In the quiet moments of your day, where does your mind go?
0:17.7	When you're feeling unwanted emotions, where do you turn to distract yourself? To find comfort?
0:24.0	See, chances are when your mind has moments of silence or when you're trying to push away
0:29.7	unwanted emotions, your mind will default somewhere.
0:34.4	Maybe a to-do list.
0:35.8	Maybe it's dreaming about a future you envision for yourself, your social media scroll, strategies
0:40.6	for your business, parenting advice, your next purchase, your
0:44.3	next vacation, your exercise and diet regimen. In his most recent book,
0:49.2	John Mark Comer calls this place your emotional home. He says, it's where our minds wander to, to find
0:56.5	soulless and joy, where you go in your quiet moments. Now if I'm honest my emotional home is dwelling on the next thing that I have to look forward to.
1:09.0	Whether it's a vacation, a new home, a kid who is finally potty trained, sleeping through the night again.
1:16.8	When I'm stressed and need a mental break, when I have a quiet moment, I comfort myself
1:22.1	and fill the silence with dreams of the next thing.
1:26.5	My husband has often said that in his silent moments his mind returns to medicine, diagnoses, and how he would explain difficult medical news to one of his patients.
1:37.9	See, we all have an emotional home. The thing is, our emotional home shapes us.
1:45.0	Comer says, our emotional home matters because whatever we abide in,
1:50.0	whatever our emotional home is, will determine the fruit of our lives for good or for ill.
1:58.5	See when my emotional home is the next thing, I'm never satisfied. I'm discontent. I'm frustrated when life doesn't go as I'd hoped,
2:09.3	when the next thing doesn't come or it comes and it isn't as great as my imaginings. Our emotional home shapes us.
2:18.1	Comer's main point is that the hope of every Christian is to find their emotional home in God, to return to God's
2:26.5	presence in our daily lives again and again, and that if we do so, we will slowly see our lives shaped by this instead.
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