Ep 39: Daily Obedience (w/ Tyler Waugh)

Speaker1: Well. Good morning, I'm Daniel Delp, and this is for your Sunday morning drive. The short podcast designed to help put you in a Colossians three two mindset and get your mind ready for worship on those hectic Sunday mornings. I know we've had a lot of storms and snow, at least in the area where I'm at in the last couple days, and it's my prayer that everybody's staying safe and warm. We are brought to you in partnership with the Ministry League Network of Podcasts. You can always check out our show notes for a link to all the great resources there that can help you grow spiritually. And we also have a very special guest today who is also part of the Ministry League Network. We are joined today by Tyler Waugh. Tyler is the minister at the Ryan Church of Christ in Ryan, Oklahoma. In his free time, Tyler enjoys riding, playing golf and spending time with his fiancee Lindsay. And Tyler is also the host of the Road Trips Navigating Life with Jesus podcast. If you're interested in following Tyler and some of the great things he does on his podcast, please check out the show notes of today's episode. You'll find all the links you need there. I'm so thankful that he's decided to ride along with us this morning. Tyler, thank you so much for being a part of our episode today. Let's go ahead and get into it. This is episode 39, Daily Obedience. Let's go to church.

Speaker2: Are we there yet?

Speaker3: In just a few weeks, the United States will celebrate an unofficial holiday, the Super Bowl. You don't need me to tell you this, but the Super Bowl is a big deal. The entire NFL season leads up to this one game. Billions of dollars are spent on commercials, gear, and tickets. Perhaps we reminisce on Super Bowls past as we await the game. Analysts spend two weeks after the conference championship games talking about it. Then the game is played and we crown a new champion after a few hours of celebration. Something strange happens the next day. You can Google who is the Super Bowl favorite, but for next year or what moves will the winning team make this postseason in the blink of an eye? After so much build up and anticipation, it's all over and we're already thinking about next year. Or we're thinking we could go back to week one and just start all over again. I want to read these three verses at you and just see if they have anything in common. Psalm three verse five I lay down and slept. I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. Matthew six, verse 34 therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Philippians three verse 13. But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Speaker3: Jesus warns us to not worry about tomorrow. Paul says that he leaves the past behind him and looks forward, but I think both are helpful to get us to where David is in this psalm, allowing God to sustain him each day. As we begin a new year, I found myself thinking about this Psalm a lot. I don't think I'm alone in this struggle, but sometimes I have the tendency to do two things. I reminisce on the good old days or wait impatiently for what is to come. I found myself thinking and saying things like this. This is nice. But you know what will be even better when fill in the blank happens? Or I miss the days when my biggest worry was knowing the difference between a physical and a chemical change. And yet, as I've learned time and time again, we cannot go backwards and we cannot go forwards. It's easy, especially after the holiday season, to feel that nostalgia and just yearn for the past. But I think it's just as easy for us to long for the days ahead, especially if you find yourself in a time of waiting. You may be eagerly awaiting the time when you when you can call yourself a college graduate, a wife or a husband, or a manager at work. But there's really only one day that we are promised, and that is today. James reminds us of this in James chapter four and verse 14. He says, yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.

Speaker3: What is your life? For you are amidst that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Before God sustained you for 2025, he had to do so for each day in 2024. Here's my point. God asks for daily obedience, and it's much harder to trust and obey God when we're living in tomorrow or we're living in yesterday. We can easily miss the opportunities to be like Jesus, to serve someone, or to share the good news when we simply aren't present to the opportunities of today. You might have had a good year last year. You might not have. You might be longing for previous days, or wishing you could go back and change some of the things you did, or the words that you said. You could also be eager or dreading for the coming year. Both, I believe, are normal feelings. But God doesn't want us to stay there. God wants us to be present. So today, take each opportunity to be present and to be obedient to God in each moment. Well, as Daniel says, those are my thoughts for your Sunday morning drive. Now it's time to hear yours. Our discussion questions are do you have the tendency to look too far ahead or too far behind? What are some things in your life that are causing you to not be fully present to today? And secondly, what are some things you can do to ensure that you are being obedient to God each day?