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Morning guys. Happy Sunday to you. Welcome back to another episode of Preaching to the Choir for the first time. These hats are available in the description down below. Be patient with us because my mom is shipping them. This is a family run organization, but we'll do our best to get them out the door for you and it's the best way you could support the channel if you'd like to do that. No pressure, no harm, no foul. Every episode prior to me sitting in this chair and talking to you guys, I do a lot of reflection on the week. Like an after action review. It's something that I recommend you guys do. Yeah, it's very military minded of me, but it's something that will greatly improve your life. When you look objectively at sustaining the things that are right, the feelings that made you happy, and separating it from being critical of the things that you did wrong, the improves. And having that conversation with your spouse, with your family, with your children will greatly benefit you going into the next week, optimizing your life experience. The idea is the more time, the more weeks that go by, the more improved you'll be as a family unit. This week, for example, was very difficult and there were low lows, but there were high highs. And it's like this, but I need it to be like this, more balanced, right? When I think about the challenges I'm facing by proposing litigation and going through this process of holding the system and people accountable, it's taxing, it's time consuming, it's stressful. And the only real winners ultimately, after the institution has infiltrated and violated your family and your life, is the lawyers. They're the only ones that monetarily gain and they make more profits to advance this perpetuating self licking ice cream cone and it's super toxic. Setting that aside, I had an amazing couple experiences with my children camping in the basement. The fire is still stoked and going because it was pretty nasty outside here in Heber City. But able to camp out, do the s', mores, do all the things and laugh and love. I missed that feeling and I want more of that. I also went to the zoo. I've taken my children to the zoo a hundred times. Every time is like the first time. And it's an amazing experience. More getting outside and experiencing life with my children and being present. I look at the world around me and I go into social media occasionally and I see what's going on and it disturbs me because a lot of people are gravitating to living, commenting vicariously through other People's drama. And I see it and I go, do I even want to be part of this drama? Do I want my brain to allocate a segment of my attention to think about this? And the answer is no. So definitely a improve is get away from it. Focus on what really matters. And that's mostly right in front of you. When I think about my life experience in the military, in special operations and being a sniper, there's a lot of correlation. Things that translate coming from a profession as a soldier, you would think there would be no correlation to a civilian life. We're talking about scripture. But for sure there is. In sniper marksmanship, we have this idea of how the round moves through space in time. And the more variables that we have an understanding that we can control, the more likelihood that round is going to land on its intended target exactly where you want it to be. One of those factors are spin drift. It's a reality you can't escape. No matter how perfect your fundamentals are. The round will drift. Spin drift is built into the system. The bull is rotating, the earth is rotating, and gravity is always at work. And if you pretend drift does not exist, you miss. Period. Good shooters do not complain about spin drift. They do not argue with physics. They acknowledge it, they account for it. And then you have to compensate for it. That is how they get first round hits on target. And that's the expectation. We're snipers because we're expected to have first round hits. It's the idea that I took from being a tomb guard. Where line six of the sentinels creed was my standard. Will remain perfection. Am I perfect? Far from it. But if I strive for perfection, then I'm closer in my accuracy. We tend to drift not because we are weak. We drift instead because we are human and the world is rotating around us. Pressure, temptation, distraction, ego, fear, fatigue, pride. All have applied forces similar to the environmental factors at work on the round. If you do nothing in your life, drift is guaranteed. And then you do not wake up one day from God by accident. You drift there slowly. And one uncompensated decision at a time, you miss every single target you intend to hit. Every single one. Scripture warns us of this reality. Hebrews 2:1 says we must pay the most careful attention therefore, to what we have heard so that we do not drift away. Yep, I pulled the scripture that correlated to Spindrift as a sniper. Hebrews 2:1 says we must pay the most careful attention therefore, to what we have heard so that we do not drift away and drift is not rebellion. Drift is inattention. We often don't pay attention to what's happening in front of us. Back to my after action review. I want to pay more attention. That's an improve every single week. And shooting, in marksmanship and being a sniper, awareness is everything you have to know. Your rifle, your optic, your mil radian holds, your environment, your wind, your rotation, all these factors at once. You have to understand. And spiritually it is the same. If you're not aware of the forces acting on you, you'll be moved by them. You will be moved by them. The world tends to be loud. Culture is loud. Social media is loud. Fear in your head, in your heart is loud. But God, he's steady. In Romans 12:2, it tells us, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That renewal is your correction. Because in Spindrift, you have to calculate the correction Coriolis effect with the rotation of the world with the spin drift that you know is going to happen. You have to make the correct. You have to make the correction. And scripture is your data. Prayer is your win call. And obedient is that slow, steady trigger press. Coriolis is interesting because it's invisible. It's something that isn't so apparent in our lives. You cannot see it, but it absolutely affects the outcome. Just like sin, our pride, our bitterness, our resentfulness and compromise work the same way. There are subtleties that lie in us. We blow them off, but they tend to culminate. They culminate for sure. I felt that this week, this culmination of all this resentment that was working itself up through my neck into my head. And they could be deadly to precision. If ignored, they cloud your vision. Psalms 119, 105 says, Your word is, a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Not a floodlight, a lamp. Just enough light to make a correction. A disciplined shooter does not overcorrect. He makes small, very intentional adjustments. Just a sidebar. That's why I like mil radians over minutes of angle. And if you're a ballistics mill radian guy coming from moas, you would understand that. But a disciplined man of faith does the same. Daily scripture, daily humility. We need humility in our lives daily. I need it every single moment of the day, I feel. But it's not perfection. It's consistency. You see, when a sniper lays flat on his belly and he makes that shot, sure, anybody can make that shot. We call it luck sometimes. But it's a sniper who's focused on all the variables, who's attentive, who's conscious and cognitive, that makes that shot again and again and again as variables continually change. That wind call from right to left changes every single time. You have to read it, register it, and hold an account for that variable. And it happens in real time because we are committed to what's taking place in front of us. And attentive James 1:8 warns us a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways because we're distracted. Instability is drift without correction. Think about that. Instability is drift without correction. What happens if you don't compensate? If you're not paying attention? It drifts again and again and again. And we know the definition of insanity where we continue to pull that trigger and expect a different result without changing the inputs. According to the variables, the goal was impact on target, impact in your family, impact in your work, impact in your walk with God. That only happens when you understand that drift is real. But guidance is available. It's readily available. This is just the pamphlet on what's available. God does not remove the rotation of the world around you. He gives you the wisdom to navigate it through scripture. So stay into scripture and stay aware. Make those corrections, press the trigger with intention, and then aar it again and again and again. I appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for supporting this channel, for preaching the choir, and I hope you have a blessed day. Love you guys. Bye.