[00:00:00] Yes, I understand the building of five capitals and the multi generational legacy. Yes, all that. But if we get lost in the hamster wheel of performance, we're going to miss the Lord.
[00:00:15] Run your home and your dough like a biblical boss. Hey, guys, welcome back to Abraham's Wallet. I'm Steve Emanuel, and as we head toward the dog days of summer, we're going to step back from our usual tool building for strong households to talk about something that's just as vital. I think the godly skill of enjoyment. And this is going to be one of those loner episodes. I think of these as loner episodes where it's just me. I didn't ask Mark to join this conversation. I just wanted to share some of my heart directly with you all. We spend a lot of time on Abe's Wallet talking about multi generational stewardship, building those five capitals, leading your family with vision and discipline and all that. That stuff, that is good biblical work. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't be constantly giving you a push on the backside. But there is a silent danger that's underneath all of this good intentionality.
[00:01:18] And that is if we never stop to enjoy the life that we're building, we can fall into a performance trap.
[00:01:26] I believe and have good reason. This is. This idea is not unique to me.
[00:01:32] I believe that performance is an evil spirit and we have to learn how to work hard and diligently without serving that spirit of performance.
[00:01:42] If we do, if everything feels like, I got to keep going or else God's not going to be happy with me and I'll be a disappointment to everybody if we have that threatening drive that's pushing us like a knife point in our back when we're not only serving, I think, an evil spirit, our godly joy is stolen and we miss the very gifts that God is placing right in front of us. An Abrahamic dad is called to more than ambition.
[00:02:14] He's actually called to receive God's goodness with open hands and then pass the joy of receiving from God down to his kids. I'll just say one word about receiving.
[00:02:28] God really stuck me between the eyes about this topic in college because I think that's where I kind of laid hold of the ambition of those who want God can go after him and he'll let you find him. That's such a key idea and it's an incredible idea.
[00:02:52] You might know this a lot of times this one verse is kind of ripped out of context because it sounds so great. But Deuteronomy 29 says, I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.
[00:03:09] Yes, great.
[00:03:11] I'm all about having, you know, pulling that verse out and remembering that God has good plans for me. I can believe him for the future. Yes, yes.
[00:03:18] It also says one of God's prophecies over the life of a faithful believer and over the nation of Israel through Jeremiah at the time was, you will seek me, and you're going to pray to me, and you're going to seek me, and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart.
[00:03:44] So I was really sinking my teeth into this. I gotta seek him. He wants me to. It's part of my destiny in God. I gotta go after him and I want to seek him.
[00:03:54] And I love that idea. I mean, I really love the kind of Jacob spirit of, I'm going to go after him. And my old mentor, Mike Lo Shields, used to talk to us about being greedy for God. That's how I thought of it in my mind, being greedy for him.
[00:04:14] And I actually want my desire and greed for God to outstrip all of my peers. I mean, that sounds crazy. I know it's not a competition, but I look around and go, I want him and I want to want him and I want to want him more and more.
[00:04:34] So I can apply that kind of stuff to all of this kind of Abrahamic stuff that we talk about. And that kind of ambition is good.
[00:04:45] However, and going back to college, I felt God pausing me and saying, you know, Stephen, it's good for you to seek me and to pursue me.
[00:04:56] Do you understand receiving as well?
[00:05:01] And I didn't. I don't think I did. Because my religious background, I don't know that this was said to me. But what I picked up from the religious seen around me in those days, I think of Bible belt Houston, Texas, circa 1985, was, you know, you gotta make it happen. You gotta act right.
[00:05:28] And that was what was taught to youth and kids in those days, is here's how to act right. And that's. You gotta. You do have to teach a kid how to act right. But what I learned in making disciples in the subsequent decades is that one must be taught how to receive up front. That's the first thing. And the Bible compares spiritual growth to physical growth. Many times Hebrews says, you should have moved on from milk and you should want meat. And so that's true, yes. If you've been walking with God, for 20 years, you should move on from milk. But I find that many people have never really learned how to drink milk because they were born again into a religious system that just puts performance expectations on them.
[00:06:24] And I know plenty of churches where the very first thing, as soon as you say, well, I think I want to follow Jesus, come up front, let's talk to somebody now. Let's get your name to our database.
[00:06:37] And what they insinuate, if not say outright, is we need you to start giving and we need you to start volunteering.
[00:06:44] And that's not what you do to a newborn baby.
[00:06:48] You don't then put expectations on them. You teach a baby.
[00:06:53] There's a whole industry, I learned around the whole lactation experts, etc. You teach that baby. You make sure that baby understands how to receive.
[00:07:04] He came to that which was his own.
[00:07:07] Like, imagine God coming into your house and he's kind of looking for your family.
[00:07:12] He came to that which was his own, but his own would not receive him.
[00:07:18] And I think of, like, I think of dad getting up early in the morning to open up that Bible and start reading. And, dad, if that is a performance thing for you, I need to make God happy with me today.
[00:07:32] I think this verse applies to you. He came to that which was his own, but his own would not receive him.
[00:07:38] And the Scriptures aren't a place for you to receive from him. When you pray as a family is that we're just, we need you, Lord. We want to receive you as we pray. Or is it if we pray, maybe God will be happy with us as a family. You know, we can turn any kind of spiritual activity into performance, which is what I was talking about with the evil spirit thing.
[00:08:00] And let me finish that verse, John 1. He came to that which was his own, but his own would not receive him. But to as many as receive him.
[00:08:10] He gives them the power to become the very sons of God that is so profound to as many as receive him.
[00:08:22] That is passive receiving of him.
[00:08:26] He gives them the power to become the sons of God.
[00:08:31] So we don't talk about receiving a lot. At Abraham's Wallet, we tell you the things to do. You need to be training your kids. You need to be maxing out your 401k and you need to be clever in the way that you buy used cars, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, there's a bunch of stuff to do, but it's really 101 would be, do you know how to receive? And I just find a lot of work, work, work, Anxiety around me. I'll throw one more verse and I'll get back to my notes here. Another verse that comes to mind, I think this is in John 6, when Jesus disciples come to him and they say, this is just a hilarious verse. And my old friend, dearly departed mentor Alan Stickney shared this verse with me. And his translation of this verse was, the disciples came to Jesus and they said, what kind of work do we have to work so that we do the kind of work that God wants us to work? And the word work appears several times in this verse. And he overdoes it with his translation. What do we have to do to do the works that God requires is how it's phrased in the Bible.
[00:09:48] And Jesus said, the work, he answered by using their words back at them. The work that God requires is this.
[00:09:56] Believe, believe on the Son that he sent. That is so cool and so profound.
[00:10:05] What a good God we have. What a kind savior.
[00:10:09] He goes, what? What do I have to do? What does God require me to do?
[00:10:14] And churches spend most of their breath answering that question a thousand different ways. Jesus's answer to that question is, believe.
[00:10:24] And faith is a gift. You've heard that phrase from Ephesians 2 before. It's a gift. It's something that we receive from God.
[00:10:33] So I see believing and receiving as much the same muscle.
[00:10:38] Now, when you start that way with receiving, there comes a point at which the Lord invites you, come after me.
[00:10:48] Come on, come after me. I want you to learn how to grow from there. But again, as I've said, many of us don't even learn how to receive him in the first place.
[00:10:57] So an Abrahamic dad is called to more than ambition, more than just this. Go, go, go. He's called to receive God's goodness with open hands and pass that joy down to his whole family, everybody that's on his downline, wife, kids, everybody learning the joy and the pleasure of receiving from God.
[00:11:21] So in my midrash this, this week, some of you know that's a Bible study that I do with a group of guys here in Cincinnati. We looked at Ecclesiastes.
[00:11:33] And Ecclesiastes is a strange little book. I won't go into detail about it, but it was written by the wisest man who ever lived. God said, there's not going to be anybody that's wiser than you that will ever live.
[00:11:44] It was Solomon.
[00:11:45] And he circles back again and again to a surprising conclusion. This is one of the things that we found in our midrash, was that you would think we have reason to believe Ecclesiastes was written at the end of Solomon's life.
[00:12:03] He wrote the proverbs when he's trying to pass along here's all my collected wisdom to his son. And now he's looking back at the end of his life.
[00:12:11] Solomon is in many ways a failure if you just look at his biography. But he looks back at the end of his life, and he says, here's one thing I've concluded. And you expect, boy, get out your notebooks, boy, this wisest guy ever lived. Get ready for this. It's going to be some doctrinal, complex, sophisticated idea. And one of the things he repeatedly says in the book of Ecclesiastes is, here's one thing I've concluded. It's really good to drum roll, enjoy food and drink.
[00:12:48] He says, and I'm kind of. I'm so surprised by that. I'm looking around the room going, that's what you came up with?
[00:12:55] I mean, Solomon hung out with kings and queens for his whole life. He was the son of a king. He became the king. His kingdom was the most fabulous on planet Earth. The Queen of Sheba comes to visit him with this giant entourage. I mean, the finest palaces. He was a philosopher. He pursued philosophy and art. And we're told all this in the book of Ecclesiastes. And what he comes up with at the end is, guys, really enjoy food and drink. Really take that in. And this is what he calls a gift from God.
[00:13:34] I'm stunned by this takeaway.
[00:13:39] And that's the heartbeat of what I want to say to you guys. For this summer, I'm going to give you five things I find that you could enjoy that you could relish mundane things and find richness in. One of the things I want you to enjoy, just receive and enjoy it, is that you're a rich man.
[00:14:05] And I know you're not where you want to be, and you might even be in debt.
[00:14:10] I know that.
[00:14:11] But when I say rich man, I'm thinking of the fact that you might know this statistic. If you own two pairs of shoes, you are among the 1% richest people who's ever lived on planet Earth. You have more material possessions than 99% of anybody that's ever lived. That is, the shoes that we have available to us, you can go buy for 50 bucks.
[00:14:41] So when I say rich man, I just mean creature comforts. I mean, air conditioning, electric lights.
[00:14:50] I mean, the things that are surrounding me right now.
[00:14:54] You've heard this before? I Know, but a king couldn't have imagined what I'm surrounded by within five feet around me not very long ago on. On planet Earth. So when I say rich man, I'm not comparing that to the Joneses across the way or the house you want to end up in or the car that you.
[00:15:17] I mean, having a car at all, it's amazing. But we don't appreciate that because we're busy thinking, oh, I ought to have this there. I'm gonna get this. At some point, I want to share an anecdote about my dad.
[00:15:37] He grew up very, very poor.
[00:15:40] And there was a. My dad did not cook a lot of dishes, but he made this dish in my house.
[00:15:47] It was oyster stew. That's what dad called it. I don't know if there's a fancy recipe for oyster stew or there's some pureed cream based, I don't know.
[00:15:56] But for dad, here's what oyster stew was. I assume he grew up with this dish in poverty world. Pour a bunch of milk into a pot, literally, just fill up a pot with milk, put a pad of butter in there, take a tiny $2 can of oysters packed oysters, dump them in there, done. Oyster, there it is. Oysters too. And he would literally heat that up in a pot, lay it into a bowl, get you a bunch of saltines, which cost about a cent.
[00:16:30] Sit down. He made this often on Sundays after church. Sit down. He was so happy, you guys. My whole point of me telling this story with that like 15 cent worth bowl of oyster stew. My dad was so happy with this bowl.
[00:16:47] And he, he used this phrase. He would say it over the bowl of oyster stew. But he used this phrase many times on many occasions where when he was super, just like pleased with whatever was going down, he could be playing Yahtzee with my Uncle Gerald around the kitchen table, and if he had a Dr. Pepper in his hand, just pleased with the scenario around him. He would always say in jest, I wonder what the poor folks are doing.
[00:17:20] I love that phrase from my dad. What he was saying, when he said, I wonder what the poor folks are doing? He would usually say it when he was enjoying.
[00:17:30] You ever heard the best things in life are free?
[00:17:33] That's what he's describing. So he knows that he's eating this very simple meal, basically hot milk with saltines in his hot milk. And he would say, wonder what the poor folks are doing, meaning I'm rich. What he was saying is, this is great. I enjoy this. I don't need anything more than this to just simply be grateful to God and say, my life is good.
[00:18:00] And I feel the same way today. I mean, one of the ways that crosses my mind is we like to eat rice and beans in my house. And we might dice up a chicken breast and put, you know, we got, hey, we're having, we call them Cuban bowls or Mexican bowls or rice bowls, whatever in our house, just some rice and beans, seasoned well, put some protein. And we feel that sort of wonder what the poor folks are doing. Like, how good is this? We're rich.
[00:18:36] So that kind of attitude from my dad I always appreciated. And I want you to appreciate, number one is I want you to appreciate being a rich man and be able to say, whatever we're doing here, it doesn't get better than this. So, you know, if you're out on a picnic with the family, sometimes I think to myself, if I had a million dollars, I couldn't make this moment better than it is right now. For instance, if you get an ice cream cone with your kids and you're walking down the street, you're thinking, man, I love these kids. Isn't my life good? You're holding an ice cream cone. You think, well, if I had a wish, I was a millionaire. There's no thousand dollar ice cream cone. This is it. This is as good as it gets. This is a. I'm having ice cream with my kids and I just think it doesn't get any better than this. Thank you, God. So I just want to release you to actually enjoy these simple moments of life being a rich man. Number two, enjoy the stage of life that you're in right now.
[00:19:40] I don't know when I did the episode on being old, but it was also a loner episode. And I talked about the fact that of course there are negatives to being older and you don't have what you had with your body as far as the freedom and capability of your body. But there's things that you have as an older person that you didn't have when you were in your 30s.
[00:20:04] And my. I'm going to repeat the point which is at every stage of life, there's advantages and disadvantages.
[00:20:13] And I've got friends that have four kids under the age of five. I. There are challenges there. I also know in retrospect, because I'm not in that stage anymore. Oh, my goodness.
[00:20:27] There's something so precious about that stage of life. If that's you and you get frustrated, if I see another diaper, I'm going to lose my mind. I Understand that I also want you to just be grateful. Oh, my goodness. If I could snap my fingers and put down my, my children to bed and put them in that swaddle and rock them to sleep at night, I would, I would give a lot of money to be able to do that tonight.
[00:20:56] And I know if you're in the middle of it, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can complain about whatever, but I want to bless you. My number two thing, enjoy the stage of life that you're in right now.
[00:21:08] Whether you're dealing with toddlers or teens or you're an empty nester, don't wish it away.
[00:21:14] Savor what God has for you right now and just be. Just receive it. Just be grateful. God, this is so precious, what you've given me right now. I'm trying not to cry as I say this. Number three, I've kind of said this, but mundane moments, again, referring to Solomon's wisdom, repeatedly enjoying food, drink and work.
[00:21:39] He says, these are the good things in life.
[00:21:42] So for instance, the joy that you get from seeing that ding. The paycheck came into the account.
[00:21:51] If you've been doing that for 15 years, it's very. Or maybe for one year, it's very easy for you to not take any joy in that moment. Great. That gets us to the place. Should have been there. I would encourage you to just pause and go, oh, that's one of your good gifts in my life. God, thank you for the paycheck coming in. Thank you that my work produces something for our family.
[00:22:15] These things are a gift from God. And I want to extrapolate that idea of receiving food and drink as gifts from God. I want to extrapolate that into all the simple things.
[00:22:28] It's a hot summer day, you know, when it's really hot and it's like uncomfortably hot. Sometimes I think about, when have I been freezing cold in my life? And how much would I trade at that moment for, oh, my goodness, this hot day.
[00:22:47] Wow, this is a blessing. What? It's a blessing that I'm not freezing cold. CS Lewis always talked about enjoying the specificity of the day that you're in.
[00:22:59] For instance, a lot of English people complain about drizzly weather, WET Weather, and C.S. lewis said, I want to rejoice in the drizzliness of a perfectly drizzly day and to be able to say to God, this is primo drizzle day. This is exactly what it should be like, wow, I feel like I'm in a storybook or something.
[00:23:22] Same thing with a hot day. Now this is a beach ball. Hot summer day right here.
[00:23:28] Just enjoying the mundane things of life.
[00:23:32] Jumping in the pool.
[00:23:35] It's just so easy for us to just think that I've jumped in a pool before. I know what that feels like.
[00:23:42] I try to remind myself when you jump into a refreshing pool on a hot summer day. This is amazing.
[00:23:50] And I think about the fact that I'm feeling cool water on every inch of my skin and I'm actually floating in it. This is an amazing thing that God made for us. Are we thankful for that or do we just go, yeah, yeah, pool sure. Got it.
[00:24:07] A walk with your wife.
[00:24:10] Do you know how many people would give their left leg to be able to walk again with their spouse who they've lost or would love to have the health to walk with their. With their spouse?
[00:24:23] Like, I just, I. I'm voting for you. Enjoying. I would like to reset your enjoy O meter and you might be driving in the car right now. When's the last time you thanked the Lord for the car that you have? And go like, this is.
[00:24:39] What a marvel that I own something that can take me anywhere in such a short amount of time.
[00:24:47] It's amazing. For comparatively little money, again, when you think of what did an Egyptian king pharaoh spend so that they could have people carry them around from place to place and you can get there 10 times as quick, a hundred times as quick in your car. We just.
[00:25:06] I'm vying for you.
[00:25:10] Enjoying things again. The time with the people you love, which is my next thing. Even your local church. I mean, do we just go, God, this is amazing.
[00:25:19] God, that I could sit down with this group of people. That somebody would lead me in some worship of you. That somebody would expound on your holy eternal scriptures to me. Why do I have access to these things? How good you are, Lord. So my third thing I talked about being a rich man, the mundane things in life, the stage that you're in, in your family life right now, also the relationships that are in your life. And I want to talk specifically about friendships. Yes. Marriages and parent child relationships. Yes, yes.
[00:25:54] Here's what I want to say about friendships. I reckon that we have become inured.
[00:26:02] I like that word to friendships, because we don't think they're any big whoopee anymore.
[00:26:11] And I think that we have become so numbed because of podcasts and thought leaders and. What a great idea. That's a great nugget. Wow, that's a. I can put that to work. That's a life hack. All of that. Stuff because of, because there's.
[00:26:29] We can get, ah, whoopee doo moments by grab. Watching a YouTube short.
[00:26:36] Then when you kind of sit with your friend, it's like, well, what's going on? I don't know. Having a sandwich. What are you doing?
[00:26:41] And I'm having a sandwich.
[00:26:43] We, we kind of have, we've, we've become impatient with just being with one another and we think that that's no great shakes to just sit with an old friend and have a meal.
[00:26:56] And I'm here to tell you that the nothing time that I spend with my friends is at least as valuable as the, quote, important time that I spend with my friends. I would say that the mundane nothing time that I spend with my friends sets me up so that when there is a crisis moment or some drama moment in life, we have built a bridge of relationship that will carry that weight over it.
[00:27:29] And if you don't spend time with friends until there's an emergency or I've got to have a whoopie doo amazing nugget that comes from, from the time you're not doing it right.
[00:27:49] And again, go to Ecclesiastes. Two are better than one.
[00:27:56] So if you can find a dude to go to the grocery store with, you do that.
[00:28:01] Or a guy to watch a movie with, you do that.
[00:28:06] I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. But our society is pushing us, our culture is pushing us to be increasingly atomized. And by that I mean isolated in a way that we feel we don't need to be with other people. And I'm here to tell you, as your Abrahamic bro, you do. You need to be with people and you need to not be impatient about that.
[00:28:36] So I want you to treasure the time that you're with guys.
[00:28:40] I want you to enjoy and appreciate the relationships that are in your life.
[00:28:46] They're forged, I think, in the humdrum, ordinary conversations, shared meals, quiet evening with a dude. Do not devalue that.
[00:28:56] And I'm all for like making excuses to figure out ways to be together.
[00:29:02] So I have a buddy in Texas who will have listening parties. Let's listen to a Johnny Cash record together. Puts out an email to 20 people and two show up. We're all going to listen to a Johnny Cash record tonight. What does he care if two people show up? Win.
[00:29:22] It's a win. That's what he was after.
[00:29:25] I want two people to show up and we'll listen to a record and maybe we'll drink some hot tea.
[00:29:31] What did you Think about when you were listening to that.
[00:29:35] I just love that. And I reckon that the skill of friendship, I know this is waning in our culture.
[00:29:45] The ability to have friends in a way that doesn't depend on consumption, that doesn't depend on, well, we've got to be out at an amazing restaurant, we've got to go shopping together. We could just like sit and be together.
[00:30:01] If you do that, you'll be strange and you'll also be wise. And I reckon it's part of receiving and I think it's part of enjoying what God has given us. So that's another one, one, one last one is the. I'm going to call it the enjoyment. And I hope you'll understand what I mean here. The enjoyment of simply being in the word of God.
[00:30:23] So that same principle again. We are so surrounded by wow, amazing moment. I've never heard of the explanation of that Hebrew word before.
[00:30:36] This constant.
[00:30:39] You've got to give me wows. Don't give me a sermon where you just tell me the gospel again.
[00:30:46] Amaze me. It's got to be some way. I've never heard that kind of impatience. That we have to be amazed is part of what drives the wannabe influencers and the skinny jeans wearing preachers into coming up with nonsense. That's not biblically true. It just sounds like a new way. What if I heard this recently, I just thought what. What is wrong with us? What if the God's story with Noah and the ark wasn't about his judgment of the sin of mankind, but what if it was about making up some kind of. No, that is what it was about.
[00:31:37] One of the things we love about truth is that it's eternally true.
[00:31:41] So if somebody comes up with a new Aha. This is a little. This is a side side quest tip for you life hack.
[00:31:51] If somebody comes up with a new idea this year. You've never heard this. Nobody's ever thought this before about the Bible. I've come up with this thing before they even tell you what it is. Click away.
[00:32:05] Because it's not God's word. Because God's word is eternally true. And if you hit on something, it's really struck me recently. For example, we are the temple of God. Wow. We are the temple of God. Maybe you heard that episode recently. We're the temple and my home could be. That is not a new idea. That is a thousands of year old idea. It came from the apostle Paul. You can read about it. So our need to be amazed at new stuff we take that into our Bible study.
[00:32:39] I would love to remove that from you, my friend, so that you could simply spend time in John 3 where Jesus has a conversation with a guy named Nicodemus and he tells him in that conversation that God loved the world and he gave his only Son so that whoever believes in him not works for him. By the way, whoever believes in him doesn't have to perish, but could have everlasting life.
[00:33:08] I want you to be able to read that story which you've heard many, many times.
[00:33:13] And you could spend the time with God around His Word, prayerfully respond in your heart to God around that and then go, that was a great time in God's Word.
[00:33:24] And maybe your modern, modern mind would go, but you didn't learn anything. You didn't have any aha moments. And you would go, no, I just enjoyed the fact that I was with God in the pages of His Word and I just enjoyed that. And I'm not going to put more expectations on the time than that. Oh, that would be so nutritious for us if we could get our head around that. But as I say, I think we have become addicted to new interesting ideas as opposed to like newborn babes crave the pure spiritual milk of the Word.
[00:34:03] And just to talk about that verse, a baby doesn't love milk because it's a new flavor. I never considered this flavor. No, they go, I know I need this and this is what I know I need.
[00:34:18] And that's how we should feel around God's Word. Praying the same prayer that we've prayed a hundred times, maybe instead of needing some whiz bang idea. So you get me on that.
[00:34:32] No pressure for a major revelation, just showing up faithfully. I'm going to wrap this up. I've been talking a while, but Paul's words to Timothy are. I referenced this earlier on in First Timothy 4. Everything God created is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving because it is consecrated by the word of God and by prayer.
[00:35:00] So I just want, I want my dads out there to just be able to just enjoy and receive in simplicity.
[00:35:12] I want that for you today, I want that for you all summer.
[00:35:18] This is the capstone is experiential enjoyment of all of life, including God's love and the gift of your family. That's what Solomon would say.
[00:35:27] So dads, here's your one step this week. No checklist, there's no pressure, just one intentional move and that is to pick one ordinary moment with your family.
[00:35:39] It could be an ice cream cone after dinner or walk around the block or Sunday lunch and just consciously savor it.
[00:35:47] Look your kids in the eye, feel the sun or the breeze, taste the food and just say out loud in your heart, oh God.
[00:35:56] Thank you God.
[00:35:59] Life is so good.
[00:36:01] What a gift. This is a gift from you. This moment is a gift from you.
[00:36:06] And then tell someone in the family why that moment feels so rich for you.
[00:36:12] I want you to do that. You could do that today, but I just want us to have this simple enjoyment.
[00:36:19] Yes. You know, I know we need $4 million invested before we retire or we can't be sure that. Blah, blah, blah.
[00:36:29] Please. Yes, I understand the building of five capitals and the multi generational legacy. Yes, all. But if, if we get lost in the, in the hamster wheel of performance, we're going to miss the Lord.
[00:36:45] And I want you to.
[00:36:48] It's hard for me to get through these sentences. I want you to receive from him. I want you to enjoy what he's giving you right now because he is actively right now. He's sustaining your heartbeat right now.
[00:37:02] He's sustaining your breath right now. If your eyeballs work, it's because of his grace right now. The fact that your body can metabolize food. You don't even know how that works. And he's doing it for you right now.
[00:37:16] And I would just love to like sprinkle blessing on you so that you we could restart the kind of enjoyment receiving, giving thanks kind of thing.
[00:37:29] You are not called to grind without joy. The same God who wired Solomon to see enjoyment as the gift is the one inviting you to receive it. So this summer let's just step into a renewed sense of God's goodness. Simple hearted gratitude and the experiential enjoyment of everything he is constantly giving us.
[00:37:51] If this hit home this simple little message of, I don't know, receiving and gratitude and enjoyment, I want you to share it with another dad. Invite him into our tribe.
[00:38:05] We want to see you all.
[00:38:08] Our tribe will be gathering around the goodness of God and what he has for us as dads in Cincinnati the weekend of August21 to 23.
[00:38:20] We are calling it Abrahamic Boot camp. Which is just if this isn't stuff that you think about but once a year you want to be around a group of guys, you feel isolated. I don't want to be atomized. I want to be connected to other guys. Please come join us. You could find out about the retreat or sign
[email protected] retreat next week. We'll be back with more tools, more tools to build, build strong, multi generational households. Until then, savor this season.
[00:38:51] Love your family. Enjoy the turkey sandwich that you have and just go, this is good.
[00:38:57] They always tell me miracle Whip's gonna destroy my body, but it is delicious. So just trust the Lord. Enjoy the Lord. Thanks for the time that you spent today with Abraham's wallet. I bless all of you guys to know the Lord and to enjoy him.
[00:39:13] Enjoy him. See you next week.
