Ep 77: A Little Reminder of a Big God

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Well, good morning and welcome
to the show.

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I'm Daniel Dalp and this is for
your Sunday morning drive, the

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short podcast with the goal of
providing some motivation, some

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drive and encouragement on your
way to worship and helping you

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recenter your mind on those
spiritual things on a hectic

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Sunday morning.
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This it says, episode 77, a
little reminder of a big God.

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Let's go to church.
Are we there yet?

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Recently, I was vacationing with
my family and some dear friends

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of ours in one of the most
beautiful places on earth, the

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Great Smoky Mountains National
Park.

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And we were on our way back from
hiking up the Klingman's Dome,

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the highest point in the
National Park.

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And we stopped at this scenic
overlook to chow down on some

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sandwiches and continue that
drive down the mountain.

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Well, during our lunch and while
taking in the stunning view

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around us, my friend picked up
something small off of the

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Rockwall behind us.
It was this little rubber Jesus

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figurine, no bigger than an inch
tall, with the words Jesus Loves

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You written across the front.
Turns out you can get a pack of

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100 of those on Amazon for like
20 bucks.

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Who knew?
I'll be sure to include a

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picture on the website and in
our show art for today's

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episode.
Anyway, what a great reminder of

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such a profound truth.
Jesus loves you.

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And regardless of the historical
inaccuracy of a tiny white

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plastic Jesus, an undeniable
truth is found in the words

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Jesus loves you.
Because here we were, surrounded

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in the midst of the beauty of
God's creation.

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And I'm a little ashamed to say
it, I still needed that reminder

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of his goodness.
And aren't we blessed as God's

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people?
So much so that sometimes, out

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of the sheer abundance of God's
goodness, we forget we make

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mundane the goodness of God.
This reminds me of Moses in his

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farewell speech to the people of
Israel right before they enter

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into the Promised Land.
He says the following in

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Deuteronomy chapter 811 through
14.

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Be careful that you do not
forget the Lord your God by

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failing to keep His
commandments, His ordinances,

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and His statutes, which I am
commanding you today.

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Otherwise, when you eat and are
satisfied and you build good

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houses and you live in them, and
when your herds and your flocks

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increase and your silver and
your gold increase and

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everything that you have
increases, then your heart will

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become proud and you will forget
the Lord your God who brought

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you out of the land of Egypt and
out of the House of slavery.

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You see, even in the midst of
the Promised Land, Moses warned

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them not to forget God because
of the familiarity with the

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blessings that he bestowed.
He warned them not to ascribe

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those blessings to their own
efforts and not to succumb to

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pride.
James 117 says every good thing

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given and every perfect gift is
from above, coming down from the

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Father of life with whom there
is no variation or shifting

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shadow.
Yes indeed, God is so good.

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And you know, I'm so thankful
for the reminder.

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Even something as minuscule, as
mundane and let's be honest, not

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entirely eco friendly.
You know the abundant littering

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of small plastic Jesus figurines
at a rest area on the side of a

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mountain.
It still made a big and much

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needed impact.
And I'm thankful not only for

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the reminder, but also for the
one who left it because someone

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had to leave a little bit of
Jesus behind them so that we

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could find it.
What if we did that as the

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Lord's people?
What if we left a little bit of

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Jesus behind, especially in
those personal interactions that

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we have every day, the
conversations we have, even the

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tense ones?
What if in every interaction

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that we have with someone, we
left just a little bit of Jesus

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behind for them so that they
could be reminded of His

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goodness and the goodness of the
Father?

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Because I truly believe that we
all need that reminder every now

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and again.
That regardless of what is

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happening around us, even if we
are in the pinnacle of the

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beauty of His creation or we are
in the absolute depths of

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despair, that yes, He loves us
and there is nothing that can

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compare to the beauty of His
goodness.

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Well, those are my thoughts for
your Sunday morning drive.

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Now it's time to hear yours.
Our discussion questions for

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this week are, when do we find
ourselves needing a reminder of

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the goodness of God?
Are we actively showing His

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goodness to others?
And what can we do this week to

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tell someone that Jesus loves
them?