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That's innerbalance.com we're living in difficult times and there's one thing that you can call upon to help you fight the negative insurance urgency and that's courage. Today on the David Rutherford Show. Over the last few months, I have found myself entrenched in one particular concept. Whether I'm out on the road speaking to hundreds of people every week or I get behind this microphone and try and bring context to the craziness of the world around us, or even in our nonprofit that we run trying to help operators deal with operator syndrome, or raising four teenage daughters or having a healthy relationship with my spouse, this one concept always keeps coming back to the forefront of my focus. And that concept is the idea of courage and what it means for me as I face those multiple negative insurgencies, those doubts, those insecurities, that anxiety, that depression, really all the different ways that under pressure we have a propensity to collapse if, if it goes unchecked. Encourage is the thing, is the, the sword that we use to confront that, that insurgency. And so I want to start this show by painting a little, a few pictures for you in your mind. And I want you to think about that 19 year old Marine who's on board a ship over the Middle east right now and want you to think about him as he goes through different types of drills or sits in different types of briefs about what he might or might not be doing in the coming days or weeks in Iran, right? What it means to in the middle of the night jump on a helicopter with his kid on 150 pounds of gear, right? With his plates and his night vision and his weapon system, sitting next to his friends as the helo spins up on the flight deck. And that idea of when that bird takes off and starts moving across the straits of Hormuz or wherever he might be positioned, dropping him off in a foreign land that he's never been before. Maybe he doesn't know that much about, but what he does know is he understands his training and he understands his love for his teammates and he feels a deep sense of patriotism in his heart. And in the midst of all those things, he still in some either slight slivers of truth or maybe it's all consuming. He's thinking about whether or not he's going to live through the experience. Now I want you to think about that 21 year old 82nd Airborne kid who's stationed on some base maybe next Iran or near Iran or some other place. And they're talking about what his mission might be in the next coming days or weeks. Where he's going to jump on butt the back of a C130 with his full combat equipment loadout, 150, 160 pounds of gear, right, with his weapon system tied to his leg and a big huge rucksack with what he'll have to live out of for a week or two weeks before he might get resupplied. Where he's going to have to jump in behind enemy lines in an area unknown to him. But maybe the intelligence they're receiving is that this is a heavy, strong strang strong IRCG stronghold or a Quds Force stronghold. Maybe he's going in to secure an airfield that we'll have to use in order to make supply runs or to drop vehicles or artillery pieces in order to support the next phase of the invasion if it's coming. And think about the same things that I'd mentioned for the Marine going through his head as well too. Perhaps the 26 year old Navy SEAL who's already had a deployment overseas or two, who's more seasoned, who's more trained, who's more dialed in, maybe in a space where he's more determined, more pumped up if you will, in order to get into the fight against the Great Satan. Maybe his bravado or his focus, whether he believes this is a religious war, maybe he feels himself as to be a modern day crusader turning back the tides of radical Islam and the Shia radicals that have sponsored terrorism all over the world for years and years and years. But there's still a sliver in his mind that exists too. Lastly, maybe I want you to think about that pilot, the F15 pilot who's out there on E, trying to survive in a landscape of people that are hunting him down like a dog. And what he's thinking about, is he following his E plan? Is he thousands of miles from safety? Does he hear the rescue missions overhead flying above him? Does his radio even work? Does his sat phone work? Does he see the patrols of civilians out in the fields looking for him? Does he see the soldiers that are out there looking for him? Or the drones, the buzzing of the drones that are constantly in the air around him? What's going through his mind, what is he thinking about? Is he ever going to see his children again or his wife or loved ones? There's a lot of people right now that are serving in our military and our intelligence world or as contractors for something that are out and having these thoughts that they're processing day in and day out and there's an uncertainty of what's going to happen. And so that uncertainty always provokes fear. And so they're having to dig down deep and find those things that give them courage, right? Those moral ideas or their religious commitments or just their faith in their family and their children and wanting to see them again. Now I want to shift a little bit too away from the people that we have almost an expectation that has courage because it's been trained into them because of this unbelievable selfless decision to raise their right hand and put themselves forward into the fight. I want you to think about that 21 year or that 17 year old high school kid who's getting ready to graduate who hasn't been accepted to any college because they don't have the money to go. And now that AI is going to wreak havoc on many jobs out there. Not sure what they even want to do or where they want to go or even if they believe the system is, is, is there for them at all in any way, shape or form. Maybe they've been pulled into a particular type of radicalized ideology that capitalism in America is the Great Satan and they're believing the things they're reading on the Antifa4chan websites or other websites that are perpetually talking about the scourge of Western ideologies. Maybe they've consumed so much false socialism that they actually believe that there is some way a utopic society could deliver them, delivered to them if they would only become the insurgency themselves. How about that 21 year old kid who's about ready to graduate from college with a degree in marketing, who's looking at the other places and around where you used to be able to go, whether it was Los Angeles or Miami or New York and, and earn a relatively decent living. But now it sees that marketing firms are no longer mass massive groups of people. It's an AI coordinated. It's somebody that knows how to teach or tell or prompt, right? The person that can produce 60,000 stories in under a second, right? What is that young person? How are they going to afford to leave their town and get out and explore the adventure of a lifetime? How about the 24 year old kid who's in law school who's just realized that in the future all legal decisions will most likely be made by an AI type of judge. So there's no subjective interpretations of what the law says. And so all this dedication, this desire because maybe their father was a lawyer or mother was a lawyer, that they could move into this noble profession to uphold the very thing that really makes the American system function and work, which is a legal system which they've seen for the majority or heard from their young lives that has broken in many different facets. But they were going to come in and they were going to change that. They were going to bring a nobility, a courageous nobility back to the law, only to discover perhaps they might be obsolete in the next three to five years. Or how about the 32 year old person that's had an amazing job in technology in the tech sector for the last six or seven years, working out in Silicon Valley or maybe in Austin, Texas or some other hotspot where technology has rooted itself as a cornerstone of the economy. And they're seeing other companies that are, have led the charge in the past in technology layoff 15, 20, 40,000 employees because their jobs are no longer relevant, because AI can do the work for them. Does that 32 year old with two children who's just about at that place where they've amassed enough money in order to put down a down payment on a new home, small home out in the suburbs, 40 minutes away from where they work. But it would be the very first thing that they actually owned. A piece of the American dream, a piece of that liberty and that freedom, so to speak. But now that dreams in jeopardy, where do they find courage to face that? After processing all these different ideas over the last few months and seeing where we're at, in particular, the catalyst of spending time with Joe Kent and Sean Ryan about a week ago and listening to him and what he was, the courage he had in order to face what inevitably has become a perpetual onslaught against himself, his character, his legacy, his children, his new wife, and even his gold star wife who died fighting for what this country says it believes in. How does Joe wake up every day and have the courage? What is courage for you and how do you think about it? Is it something that crosses your mind regularly? Is it something that you think about as you're in a fit of despair or you're so frustrated you can't see straight? Does it pop into the forefront of your mind and say, stop it, Rut. Be courageous in this moment and fight through and what are the things that you determine that you rest upon? What are the tools? What are the swords, the armor, the shields that you present forth in order to beat back that negative insurgency that's flooding into every recess of your mind, that sits there in the shadows, waiting for your weakness, waiting for your fear to overwhelm you in a space so profound that it seems like all is lost. Courage is the mental and moral strength to confront danger, difficulty, pain, fear, uncertainty, or intimidation while preserving toward a worthy goal. It is a derivative of the Latin word core, meaning heart, originally evoking the idea that the heart as the seed of all feelings, the spirit and the thing that gives you resolve. Now, one of the things that you have to recognize is that courageous encompasses both our own physical courage, that what we stand and fight against or we run away from, right? It's the moral courage. It's the things that we stand up for, these belief systems that we hold as the framework for how we perceive, right, the world around us. As one scholar used to say, it involves, quote, deliberate choice in the face of painful or fearful circumstances for the sake of a worthy goal. So what's your worthy goal? As you sit in this moment where you're not quite sure what to be courageous about? That's where you have to constitute what your worthy goal might be. What is the reason why you're going to rise above the ashes of your own defeat and step forward onto the breach once more? There's a physical construct of fear or of courage. And I wanted to try and break this down into a way that might make sense, a different way to think about it, right across these different planes, philosophically, metaphysically, behaviorally, theologically. And so, you know, when I thought about Philip, the philosophical construction, you know, Western philosophy itself has long treated courage as one of its core virtues, right? One of the things that really you built. You build your entire philosophical worldview around, right? This immovable thing in your consciousness that gives you the ability to endure. And when you think about Plato in terms of laches of and republic, right, he defines courage as a form of knowledge, specifically, quote, wisdom about what is and is not to be feared, end quote. Now, it's not raw fearlessness, but the trained judgment that correctly values what truly matters, right? But this doesn't happen easily in our lives, unfortunately. How do we generate the thing that gives us the correct values? And how do we judge the world around us? Certainly if you're a young person and you're judging the world around us right now, you'd be like, well, what the fuck? Everything's crazy. Pedophiles go unarrested and prosecuted. We have unlimited corruption. And so I'm gonna work my whole life paying taxes so corrupt politicians at every level can steal and manipulate and become rich with as I grind. And they give my, my, my call, my, my, my time, my energy and they just hand it away to their friends and themselves. Or how about the fact that I see the moral interpretation is div. Is, is being decimated by this postmodernistic belief and that the attack on Christianity or the attack on faith itself is unlimited in its capability. Unlimited in, in the, the war that comes against me as a Christian. Now for Plato also, courage is the preservation of the opinion formed by education. Now what is your education that's going out and living your life, Finding out the truth of your existence in your day to day routine. Not sitting in bed, smoking a bowl, playing video games and escaping from the realities of your existence. That's not courageous. Or allowing your belief systems to be manipulated by some algorithm that only wants to consume your time, which is your greatest asset. To go out and develop courage to consume your time in order to, to sell your, your, your electronic behaviors to the highest bidder, not even anybody willing to pay for your data. Now one of the things that's critical to understand is that courage is not just simply valor on the battlefield, right? It's not just your actions in themselves, but it's a habitual disposition that contributes to human flourishing. And so when you think about the negative insurgency, its mission is to force you to not flourish, to keep you in a prison of fear. That's what's taking place day in and day out. And when you fail, and you fail repeatedly and sometimes in epic proportion, that insurgency feels like it's winning. And so as you start to analyze philosophical antiquity or modern philosophy, if you will, right? This idea of courage is perpetual in its reality, right? Aristotle noted that true courage requires self mastery. One faces danger without being consumed by it, recognizing that peace, not war, is the higher good. So what does self mastery look like? Hey, Self mastery looks like you being able to understand courage across the many different planes that it exists. Obviously, physical courage comes with what? Eating healthy, sleeping, right? Working out, pushing yourself, getting out there, as Eric Schwalm says, and run your marathon or joining a jiu jitsu gym and getting tested on the mats day in and day out. Or, or just simply eating, right? Being healthy, right? Don't consume over consume too much THC or destroy your body with alcohol or other drugs, right? The courage is to rebuild every day after the beat down, you've taken through the stress of, of the unknown, right? Because if your body's not able to manage the need, the necessity that drives courage physically into the physical world, man that's in and of itself going to be. Feel like a massive defeat. So physical courage, right? Metaphysical courage, what does that look like? Medical. Metaphysical courage concerns the fundamental nature of reality itself, existence and being. Existential philosophers located at the heart of human freedom amid absurdity and anxiety. What does that mean? The reality is you were born, you're gonna live and you're gonna die. That's your reality. That's, that's an inescapable existential reality. What you choose to do over the course of that timeline, in many cases, after you've gone through whatever growth period or developmental period, you know, and, and we're always developing in some capacity. But that real point where you become an individual, which means you can stand on your own two feet independently of your parents, maybe a sibling, maybe a benefactor of some kind, where you're, you're almost isolated in the direction that you choose to go. And not isolated in a bad way. Isolated in a freedom way, in a liberty way. Choosing any path or direction you want to go in life. Let's say you want to go drive a motorcycle across the Mongolian flats, or you want to go get a physics doctorate from mit, or you want to go to welding school and start your own business, or, or you want to join the military and go to war. The courage for the adventure, that's. That's the essence of it, right? I just really want to talk about how blessed we are to be sponsored by Black Rifle Coffee. I've been a Black Rifle fan and supporter since the beginning, since Evan came up with the idea years and years and years ago. We drink it at home today. I just want to tell you about their new cold brew Just Black that came out. This is really an amazing. It's, it's, it's for those who really love a bold flavor without compromise, right? And it's made from premium coffee beans and steeped cold for a smoother, naturally rich taste. This is ready to drink can that delivers a crisp, refreshing finish with every single sip. 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Now, one of the things that you have to think about it are the things that impede that metaphysical development, and that's depression, anxiety, fears. And so Kierkegaard saw anxiety as the dizziness of freedom, the awareness of infinite possibility and responsibility, right? Infinite possibility and responsibility. And that's profound for you to understand, right? As you allow the complexity or the anxiety you feel from the complexities of the world, the unknown that's in front of you, if that overwhelms you, that insurgency gets inside you and begins to disrupt your sense of courage or your sense of ambition or your sense of, of direction, right? Because we all need to be able to point to something and go after it. Whether that's your, your, your sense of relationships, whether your sense of, of ambition in terms of meaning and job, what you want to do, or even that high order, that religious, that spiritual state of, of. Of meeting the. What is it, the mission that Christ puts out for, for you, potentially. Heidegger built on, on many of these concept and being in time and described anxiety or angst as a mood that discloses the, the nothingness at the ground of being all right. It reveals the thrown ness into a world without inherent meaning and calls to us, calls to us authentic Dassin or being there. Right? Courage for Heidegger is the resoluteness facing death, finitude, and the, quote, call of conscience, end quote. Without fleeing into the, quote, idle talk or inauthenticity. That's something that I see young people facing at, At a, At a overwhelming level. The, the desire to adapt to what they think is what society wants them to become. The inauthenticity trying to mimic your favorite influencer instead of just taking a piece of what they have or, or, or pretending to be something you're not, manifesting a particular someone else's ego as your own in order to protect your uncertainness about who you are. Because you're afraid to go out and explore the beauty of, of. Of the unknown, the adventure of what courage can unlock for you. I remember when I was in college and I, I had the opportunity to read some existentialism, to study that, and I remember finding John Paul Sartre. And although I don't believe in everything he thinks about, he's very postmodernistic in certain things. But you know, there is some ideas behind this idea, and it's called the condemnation to be free. Your freedom allows your mind to be exposed to these types of things that are outside of your control, right? The uncertainty of your future. And I think a lot of times what, what these existentialists are saying is, listen, you've got one life, it's coming to an end. What are you going to do to give yourself meaning in the moment? What are you going to give yourself in this moment as you're listening to my voice, what are you going to give yourself in the moment to spark courage? Is it, is it somebody you believe in or believes in you? Is it a particular action that you're in? Embark on every day of your life or once a week or whatever it might be? Is it your faith, right, to be courage, be courageous In a world where faith seems to not be hold the same relevance it once did, but it always has, these things begin to affect what they affect your behavior. And so understanding the behavioral construct of courage is essential too. Now from a psychology and a positive psychology format, courage is measurable in observable. Now thank God for that, right? Thank God that things I can do, I can measure. Is this courageous or not? And somebody else can observe my courage, somebody that I care about in particular. For me, it's my children. If I exemplify the thing that I'm trying to teach them by being courageous and speaking my mind, standing up for what I believe in, and I can demonstrate that vividly in my deeds and in my words. Hopefully they can manifest their own behavior in a similar fashion or form. A behavioral approach, despite the experience of fear, is really what I'm talking about. Hey, we're all going to be afraid. There's no day you're going to wake up where you're not going to have something that triggers a modicum of fear. It's just built in. Whether that's getting sick or having a baby or, or failing at a job or getting fired or your loved one telling you they're done, right? Fear's there, it's present, right? Regardless of what you want to believe or don't believe. Suffering and pain are imbued into this existence. Life being born, living and dying, it's just there. Now there are certain research like Peter Norton who define it almost operationally and they think about it like this. It's a persistence in high risk situations despite fear and distinct from mere fearlessness or recklessness, right? Courage is the thing that forces you to act in a way that result in a net interpreted positive reaction, right? Even if it's pain and induces pain or whatever, you still were courageous to face what you needed to face to make it to the next foot, the next inch of your life. Anytime I deal with certain clients that are really struggling, one of the, the mottos I always just repeat incessantly is inch by inch. Because under immeasurable amounts of fear, when the world seems as if it's sucking you into its abyss, gaining one inch a day is often just enough. Now, one of the other things about fear from a behavioral construct that you have to think about, and these are key components is, is how you do risk assessment, right? Do you have noble intent and are you. Can you exemplify perseverance in difficult situations? One of the interesting things about how psychologists have in terms of behavioral is what they've been able to do is that courage predicts real world behavior. Right? Right. It it above and beyond, it goes above and beyond fear and, and leaves that alone, right? Separates you from the fear. It doesn't delete it, but it gives you space. So it's not controlling you. Where the courage is the motivation, the courage is the momentum. The courage is the thing that breaks the shackles of fear. Right. It buffers stress in us. It reduces post traumatic stress, it correlates with higher life satisfaction, it lowers depression, and it ultimately results in better performance under pressure, which is life itself. All those people I listed as, I started this. If they allow courage to be a component of, of their endeavors, right, Then their ability to persevere will be much more prevalent. Even in the midst of their profound pain and suffering. As long as they have courage, they can gain that itch. In positive psychology, it is a character strength. It involves bravery again, perseverance, honesty and a zest for life. It can be cultivated like a skill through deliberate practice. Small acts of speaking up, trying new things and facing discomfort to, to build what they call the courage muscle. I talk about this quite often when I'm talking about performance with different teams that I work with or have worked with in the past. And that's professional sports teams, college sports teams, top business teams. There's an, a thing that happens with iterable behavior, right? We build up a strength and in particular if it's working well for us, there is negative iterable behavior. Think about addicts, that there's that it overwhelms their, the chemistry of their brains. And so they seek out that pleasure as opposed to having the courage to defeat it. It overwhelms that component. But through a concept called stress inoculation what you can do is you can expose yourself a little bit every day. That's where the inches every day a little bit more and more and more and more and more and more until you build up that sense of drive, that sense of motivation, that sense of, of true focused ferocity and what you believe in, what your faith is in, to move forward by that inch. Again, behaviorally, courage is not fixed on one singular trait, but a dynamic process, right? It's a cognitive appraisal of risk versus value, emotional regulation and repeated action that rewires the fear response itself. You're now going to get rid. And there's no such thing as fearlessness. There just isn't. But what you can do is you can build up your strength to be courageous in the midst of great fear or suffering or pain. All right. The theological construct, right. In Christian theologic theology, which is my main focus in my life, courage appears as fortitude, one of the four cardinal virtues alongside prudence, justice and temperance. Right. The Bible repeatedly commands God's people to be strong and courageous, right? Framing it not as self generated bravery, but as trust that God's presence is real in your life and his hand is on you, helping you take that inch. I'm going to talk about this in a very personal way for me now. So the hardest thing I've ever done in my life is, is believing that I, I was deserving of Christ's love for me, that my sins could be forgiven and still can be. And so I battled back and forth that many, many years. You can hear me describe it if you go back and listen to my interview I did with Sean Ryan on the Sean Ryan Show. I talked pretty extensively about that journey and the pain I experienced in the midst of it. Now one of the things that this last few months has continued to reinforce in me is to be courageous and courageous in nature, to, to settle in, in the place that I need to be inch in some capacity every day. And so what I recently did in order to be a profound reminder of, of that is I went out and I got a tattoo of, of David decapitating Goliath on my arm as a constant and perpetual reminder that there is a innocence in us that rests and lies within a conviction, a courage conviction that God is with me at all steps, at all times in my life. And by utilizing that belief and that strength that God's inside of me, that I can always be courageous when I want to otherwise run away from the giant. Now what's interesting is, is when you think about that story, there's a profound amount of messianic ideas that surround that. And if you go through many of, of of David, King David's psalms, he has that prophecy in many of his psalms. And so Psalm 22 in particular is one of those psalms, you know, and he describes his, his suffering and his, you know, of a person that sometimes feels abandoned by God, but he endures this intense mockery of his enemies, right? And the physical torture and torment from them as well too. And you break it down and it has two main sections. Verses 1 through 21 is about the lament of intense suffering, isolation and apparent forsakenness, that idea of forsakenness that's prophetic. In verses 22 to 31, there's a shift to praise and deliverance and the extension of God's salvation to all nations and future generations. That is the liberation that we're provided through Christ's sacrifice, prophecy, the prophetic realities. There's also another psalm that has more prophetic meaning in it, and I'll get to that here in a second. You'll understand why I'm doing this. And that's Psalm 63. And one of the key verses for me that leaps out is, oh God, you are my God. Earnestly I seek you, I thirst for you. My whole being belongs for you. In a dry and parched land where there is no water. That's your fear, that's your suffering, that's your pain, where there is no water, because your love is better than life. My lips will glorify you. So just speaking the name of God or Christ, that is the quenching of your thirst. The quenching of the thing that you need. The courage. God is the courage. Speak God and you will be quenched of this thing, this fear that is making you thirst for something that can give you that inch. Obviously this weekend and I'm recording this on Saturday and I just want to really thank Jordy for coming in on the weekend. He's an incredibly devout human being. I've learned a profound amount from you, Jordy, and I want to thank you for that, but I had to come in. You're welcome.
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David Rutherford
Now, yesterday, as I traditionally do, I watched the Passion of the Christ and I watched that. To feel the intensity of what Christ. I can't even imagine, I can't even profoundly. But what I can do is I can visualize what I saw and then try and translate and allow myself to feel some semblance of his pain. And, and throughout Christ's life, he required massive amounts of courage just knowing that he was the Messiah and what he had to do, stepping into that river with John the Baptist and allowing the process to begin his missionary to begin. He knew from that moment what that meant was, which was, was going to be his, his crucifixion, his sacrifice for all of us. He showed courage and is resisting the temptation of the devil for 40 days and 40 nights, cleansing the temple itself. Imagine the courage it took to walk into the temple that his, his familial connection to the King of David and going in and flipping the tables and calling out the hypocrisy of what was taking place. Imagine the courage of doing that. He had no tactical training. He had no. He wasn't a police officer, he wasn't a bully, wasn't any of that. He was just a. A preacher, a rabbi. But where we really see Christ's ultimate courage in my mind is through the time where he was in the garden, to the time he died on the cross. For me, I remember in the beginning of, of the Passion of Christ, we see him right in Gethsemane and we see him crying. And you see him sweating and crying the blood of all souls. How about the courage to face one of his apostles who for 30 pieces of silver betrays him and brings those guards to him, knowing that it's inevitable, it cannot be reversed, knowing this is part of it. And what Judas looking in his eyes as he receives his kiss to acknowledge to the guards, this is Jesus of Nazareth. And then what takes place and what begins after that? Through his trial and conviction with the Pharisees and with Pontius Pilate and the scourge that he took from those Roman soldiers. Think about that. Think about how many lashes with that whip filled with metal pieces and bone, scourging massive chunks of his flesh from his body on every side of every inch of his body bleeding copious, copious amounts of blood onto the ground while people cheer and jeer at your feet, knowing in his head he has to suffer for all of us. And what does he do? He keeps getting back up and the crucial crucifixion itself. Being nailed to the cross as your mother and a few of your disciples watches you, Every inch in agony none of us can even fathom. But what does he do? Christ gives us seven final statements that can be a framework for you and your courage. Christ gives us these statements in the midst of a pain and in suffering that goes beyond anything a human being can remotely even contemplate. Because in the midst of his human pain, of his human suffering, he is also feeling the weight of the world, both past, present and future. Souls. All of our sins, all of our suffering encompassed in these few hours. And his first one. Think about the courage of this as you're flayed out. Flayed out, barely being able to breathe because your lungs are filled up with fluids. The pain, the exposure of your body, your rib cage being exposed from all the flesh being torn off your back. You're laid on the cross and you have spikes driven into your hands and over your cross. Feet nailed in. And then the pushing of that. And as that's happening, then he says, forgive them. Forgive them, for they know not what they do. And what is this? This is Jesus. Divine love. In the midst of this, he has the courage to express divine love for those that torture him to death, that condemn him to death. Next, he sells. Truly, I tell you today you will be with me in paradise. Who's he speaking to? He's talking to one of the criminals that's been crucified with him who was begging the Roman soldiers. How dare you? I'm the criminal. Crucify me. He has done nothing wrong, begging for Jesus to be forgiven. Truly, I tell you today you will be with me in paradise. And that's the promise he made to him. The courage in the last moments to. To do something divine, which, which is why he's been crucified in the first place. Being professing the Messiah. And he go, looks over and he grants salvation to a criminal in the time before. In the agony of his own suffering and pain, he looks next to him. He says, guess what? You will be forgiven. You will be with me in eternity. Woman, here is your son. Here is your mother. Now this is him speaking to his mother, Mary, and one of his beloved disciples, John, standing on beneath him. And in the midst of his suffering, once again, Jesus shows tender care and responsibility to his family members. Think about that. Think about in the midst of your own fears, your own, Your own pain and suffering, as your family is trying to help you or represent you or. Or be there for you and you're turning away from them because you don't want to expose your weakness. In that moment, Jesus teaches his family to rely on each other through the faith they have in himself. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Back to that prophecy from Psalm in King David and the Ang. And this anguish cry quotes the opening of Psalm 22, expressing the profound spiritual suffering of bearing the sins of the world. And at that moment the Father turned away as Jesus became sin for us, experiencing the separation and wrath humanity deserves. It is not despair, but a faithful lament that points towards the victory. It reveals the cost of redemption and Jesus's full identification within human brokenness. Those are the quiet moments where you're waiting for God to respond or you're waiting for someone who loves you to respond. Those are the quiet moments that you are seated in your own suffering and seated in your own ability to summon courage that God is giving you the opportunity to summon. Don't be blasphemous, don't be a victim, don't blame others in those moments, sink into the pain of your experience. Feel humility and feel the lesson you're supposed to learn and what you're supposed to utilize to come out of the ashes, to rise above your own crucifixion, if you will. I am thirsty. And this, this, this very short statement affirms his humanity. He endured the physical torture, right, including the extreme dehydration, which fulfills another prophecy right out of Psalm 69, Showing us that the source of real spiritual refreshment while suffering thirst, right, is to quench humanity's deeper spiritual thirst, the thirst that you need to have for God itself. To drink in the word of Christ. I am finished. A lot of people struggle with this one, I think, as I did for many times. Why would he say this? And essentially what it is, is it. It's his admittance that he has fulfilled his promise to us. He has gone through what he had to go through so that God would forgive our sins, that God's wrath upon us would no longer be encompassed in all of these other facets of our, of our immorality, of our selfishness, or our own construct of what meaning is about. He fulfills the whole thing willingly and speaks the truth of that. And lastly, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit willingly giving himself back to God his Father. Courage is incredibly powerful tool that you can use. And whether you use Christ as your the embodiment of courage, or you use Joe Kent as example, or you use some other person in history, or you're single mother or your father who was imprisoned, or your family member who made a mistake, who is repenting, or your best friend that has beaten addiction and trying to do their best or, or your spouse, whatever that place that you can find salvation in. How you address the courage within that relationship, man, that's the space you want to exist within, not within the, the fear of the insurgency. Now, courage is, is not simply again reserved for heroes on the battlefields. And I know I started it out that way, but I wanted to make a point. This is the quiet force that enables our ordinary life to become extraordinary. Courage is the thing that allows us to, to live not with fear as a chain, but fear as a driver. Something that, that we tolerate but manipulate in order to gain the inch. Every day now, your daily courage, it can show up in you. Speaking the truth of what you believe in. Starting a difficult conversation that you've not wanted to do. Pursuing a passion as opposed to something you're forced to do in order because someone's telling you it's the right thing. Standing against injustice all around you. Nothing more courageous than that. Every time you allow yourself to take the inch with courage, it's going to help you personally. It's going to develop your strength, your armor. It's going to develop your ability to foster resilience, self confidence and that, that estimate, that estimation of authenticity. Ultimately, courage is the heartbeat of your meaningful life. There's no other way I can describe this to you. Without it, life will not be what you want it to be. Hell, man, it's so powerful. As I was building out my course on learning to embrace fear in your life, it's the full final chapter, the final mission is to live with courage in your life. That's the essence of battle. Your battle against fear is your, your desire to achieve a profound state of courage as you face the negative insurgency. The way I believe you can do that is first and foremost strengthen your faith. Really dig into the word of Christ. Or better yet, dig into the things that you know that, that you truly have faith in. The people that you believe are honest. The people that you believe are willing to tell you what you need to hear, when you need to hear it. The people that inspire you, the people that motivate you, the people that, that, that, that lift you above, right, the, the material nature of that stuff which makes you inauthentic, Seek that out, seek that faith. The other one is to really stand up for what you believe in. Now, if you're not you don't know what you believe in. That's where you need to start developing or building your courage. And I went through a several different ways. The philosophy of courage, the metaphysics of courage, the behavioral aspect of cour, the theological aspect of courage. You can pick any one of those throughout human history through Stoicism or, or, or through some type of BF Skinner or whatever it might be. In that spectrum of understanding courage, just pick one thing and begin to dive into it. But the thing that really matters is that when you get out of every bay, out of bed, every day, you do something that's courageous. Now again, courageousness doesn't mean you join the military and fly over to Iran and join the fight. Courageousness is you're a good person every day. You don't fall prey to the hedonism that's consuming a lot of people. You don't fall prey to the material aspects of, of, of what you covet from someone else. You don't fall prey to the incessant nature of negativism and always finding the negative outlook in something that the insurgency wants you to do. It. Hell, just fighting back against that alone will develop. Your courage will fortify, it will give you perseverance. The main way I believe you can do that is through iron, sharpening iron. Surround yourself by other. Create courageous people. Find the people around you that are seeking out that story themselves, that are seeking out what is courage. They're trying to find the truth of the very thing that allows them to confront or face the irredeemable, to confront or face the manipulation to current front, or face the evil that exists all around us. Surround yourself with them. And the last piece, and the most pinnacle piece, and the piece that was the hardest for me to realize, the piece that made it most difficult in my journey in faith, and that's I had to figure out how to live my life filled with love in my heart. And when I think about those moments where I have anger led by mostly fear, overwhelm the construct or the tool of love that I can use, the arm that breaks through or chips my armor of love I have around me that God gives me and I, I portray that onto other people that are weak or angry or evil or whatever, I can, I can, you know, want to believe they are, and I catch myself and I reallocate that energy out of that insurgency and into courage. And I try and address problems or my own suffering through the lens of love. And how do I do that? It's as easy as speaking truth to my children. Or my spouse, or wrapping my arms around my beautiful wife and telling her, I love you. I've got you. I'm with you. I'm never leaving. Living with love is a very difficult thing. It takes the most courage there is on the planet to actually pray for somebody that you believe is trying to hurt you. To actually pray for somebody that's making horrible decisions that are going to impact you. To actually pray for those that you love that might be out on the literal front lines here soon. Courage. Hopefully I've made a case that courage is worth your consideration. Hopefully I've made a stronger case than just consideration. Hopefully I've made a case that you can develop a conviction in your courage, that you can gain that inch every day. No matter what you're going to face, no matter what you're going to suffer from, no matter how you're going to be crucified in the modern era. Because I promise you, if you do have courage in your heart, encourage in your life that the time you have, from the moment you're born to the time you die, there will be meaning in that life. And if you also have the courage to put your faith in Christ, you will have eternal courage and love as well too. Thank you so much. God bless you. I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for your support. I want to thank you, Jordy, again, I want to thank my family, my wife, but most importantly, I want to thank Jesus Christ. I love you. God bless him. Foreign.
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Bethenny Frankel
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David Rutherford
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