To make a video on just a little tiny piece of thoughts I had this morning trying to get through my workout wasn't working too, too much on my mind. Uh, I don't really have time to record this right now, but, oh, well, um, I, I was, I would record this on my phone. My phone's dead, my headphones are
dead. It was, uh, it's Monday yesterday. It was Sunday. It was a really intense Sunday. And so everything just had to go by the wayside to get done what I was doing. It was good though. Anyway of the huge flood of thoughts this morning. I, um, my process is usually, uh, take rough notes, write down everything
I can and it's so fast and quick that I just get a little bit down. Um, do I have to move to the very next thing that's on my mind? And, um, uh, some of that gets into books. That's sort of the first that goes from the rough notes. I try to get it into books from some of the, uh, those thoughts I can
express them concisely enough without grabbing onto a bunch of other things that I can put them on to blog posts. Sometimes I can do videos, although I really try not to, writing is much harder than just speaking and, and making videos. But it's better for a lot of reasons, given the situation, the constraints
um for many reasons. Um And I, I don't want to delve into this too much, but I've spoken about uh how we limit our windows of receipt is a phrase that I use. But, but the constraints we place on God are phenomenal. Uh We just, we limit him so much. And one of the ways we do that is in the forms of expression
, in which we're willing to let him speak or through which we're willing to allow him to speak to us. And so for many years, I, I told people I'd be taking down a lot of blog posts and I don't know why, but no one believed me. Um uh When I finally did it, they were surprised. Uh And I've gotten requests
. Oh, you wrote this blog post one time? Can you put it back up? No. Uh If there's a compelling reason? Sure. But you know, um the constraint that's placed on me with that is that one? There are things that are just too important to squeeze into a way that's convenient to receive. So if you limit all
the truth that God can give you to something that can fit in a Twitter tweet, you have cut yourself off from eternity. It's as simple as that because there are many things that just cannot be expressed. We believe that uh there are things that are of such content that they cannot be expressed in language
that we have. So things that are uh either unlawful to be written or unable to be written, those are two separate things um because there is no means sufficient in this world. So if that's true, then surely there are things that uh cannot be expressed over Twitter or over a video or over a blog post
. And I get messages uh from time to time from people who say, oh yeah, I started one of your books or uh I've watched some of your videos, read your blog posts and I can't wait to read your books. What are you waiting for? I mean, if it's worth it, right? If you don't find value in it for sure, don't
go deeper. Um But if you have found value at the level that you've invested, why wouldn't you double down? That's wonderful s uh uh advice for life and applies to all things. Jesus said, try the spirits. He said in John 717, uh those who do my will will know it's from the father. So um do the things
I say, we know it's from the father. So truth leaves clues and that's actually all that was preamble. It wasn't planned. I'm just rambling. But uh what I'd like to speak about today is reactions to truth. Now, this is uh something I've written about before and I've written a lot more about it. They haven't
published yet and that will come out with time. But I'm, I just, there's so much value in these things that God teaches me and I, I just want to share them with people, but there are so many limits that people put up and I have to navigate through those just like everyone who loves God has to in trying
to serve other people. Um But sometimes there's a crack and when I see the crack, I exploit the crack. And so I think that we can talk about these things, but I'm sure that someone's gonna get worked up about them anyway. I guess one benefit of doing videos is that they're not so easy to proof text to
grab a little quote out of context and sort of, yeah, and saying all this, I mean, don't think that I sit around stewing about what people think. I couldn't care less. Uh in one regard, in the regard that you would probably care about what other people think. I couldn't care less. Uh I care because I
care about you and I know that these things have value and I know what happens if you don't have them and that's why um that's, that's the extent to which it bothers me. But I am so busy in my life that I just don't have time to care about, uh, what people think. I know what I've been given to do and
I'm doing it and it takes everything I have and, uh, that's all there is to it. Ok, without further ado, um, so where I grew up there were these things that we called lightning bugs. I think some people call them June bugs, but maybe that's something else. Uh, but, you know, when the, when the sun goes
down these bugs come out and they flash their lights and, um, uh, speaking of light, I'm sorry, the quality in there, I have a thing for my cell phone that I bought and if I turn these overhead lights on, it looks terrible. The sun's really not up. It's, it's, I live in Montana. It's early morning. We
just kind of get used to living in perpetual darkness as the sun wears off, the summer wears off. So, uh, we're just gonna have to deal with it. So lightning bugs, we don't have them out here. Uh, and that's sad. It's kind of cool to see them. Um, I, I don't think my kids have ever seen lightning bugs
. That's really sad. Um, anyway, so they flash these lights and an interesting fact about lightning bugs. I know I've mentioned this before is that, um, they follow the lights of other lightning bugs and so it's cool, you see a swarm of just sort of flashing lights and, um, the there's different brightness
in these lightning bugs buts and, um, as they flash their lights, the, they'll actually seek out brighter lights than they have. That's pretty crazy. And so in at least one way, a little bug is a lot smarter than people. Um, because we don't tend to do that. Human nature is quite the opposite. I'm gonna
go over that a little bit in this video, which I'd hope to be short. It's not going to be. Oh, well. Um ok, so let's talk, let's start with the 10 lepers. Um So there are 10 lepers and uh here's the story from, from Luke. And as he entered into a certain village there met him 10 men that were lepers
which stood afar off and they lifted up their voices and said, Jesus master have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said, unto them, go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed. So all 10 had sufficient faith in Jesus because, you know, they had heard
stories about his healing people and, and maybe they had heard something that he taught. Um and they had faith enough to uh to meet him to, to, to get closer to him, they stood afar off because of the legality of being a leper. Uh You know, you can infect other people that was the law and also just sort
of common courtesy. Uh They lifted up their voices. So they had enough faith to find to, to notice him because he came to the certain village. So once he was there, so he did that work. They got close enough to him that they could call to him and they said, master have mercy on us. And when he saw them
, he said, go show yourselves unto the priests. He didn't say you're healed, he didn't say go show yourself to the priest and on the way, you'll be healed. He just said do this. So they had evidence to seek him for a specific thing. And then when he told them what to do, it didn't matter how much sense
it made, they made the decision based on what they had already observed. And so then they did that thing, right? So um we hatched chickens for the first time this summer. And so I, I um we actually, we did it naturally and uh technologically, I, I bought an incubator and then we had a um a very motivated
hen that found a uh a five gallon bucket turned on its side and laid some eggs in there and sat on them for, for 28 days. And uh somehow the kids in charge of managing the coop missed that and whatever we got some chicks out of it. Um But there's important lessons in this. See, uh if you really believe
that God is in and through all things, you will look in and through all things to find him. And I don't mean that, you know, you're literally going to look for him in some weird place but, but little pieces of him will manifest in and through all things. And so it's, it's almost like, uh, uh it's like
that old game Zelda for the original Nintendo, um where there's this thing, the Triforce and it had all these powers and it was broken in pieces and you have to scour the whole, the whole map of the land to on these adventures to find it. It's like that. But, but the triforce is Jesus and he's, he's
scattered into a billion pieces all over the place. Um Not, not literally in the sense that he is a being and he is in a place and you can meet him face to face. Um And you should, and that should be the goal is to know him wholly. Um But uh the way you do that, uh there's resources all around us because
he is in and through all things, little pieces of him are in and through all things. And so you get those, you filter those out and you live according to what you learn and you ascend towards him, you become more like him and you, your eyes can see more than you could see before. And um anyway, so, so