The NXR Podcast - March 01, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The Paralysis Of Too Many Choices

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
St. Augustine Joe Biden
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Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

157.33

Word count

1,127

Sentence count

70

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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Is it possible to say no to more than one thing at a time? How do we know when to say yes to more? What is the best way to say "no" to more things in life?

Transcript

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00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:41 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:46 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Some of you have a hard time saying no,
00:00:53 right one of the ways you know like death by a thousand cuts right that phrase you know or
00:01:01 uh you know just slowly little by little by little worn down one of the things that we
00:01:07 experience often in the 21st century is is death by limitless virtually limitless opportunity
00:01:13 all the time and i know that i'm not unique i have i'm sharing this because it's common to man
00:01:22 I know that this is the situation that you probably find yourself often in as well.
00:01:28 But all the time, I'll get requests.
00:01:32 Sometimes they come in that humble tone of a request.
00:01:34 Sometimes I get demands.
00:01:36 But either way, whether it be a request or a demand,
00:01:39 there's a million different things that a million different people
00:01:42 think that I should be doing with my life in any given moment.
00:01:48 And one of the ways that I'm able, it's almost overwhelming.
00:01:52 It is overwhelming to sift through every little thing to define and determine, to discern what I should say yes to and what I should say no to.
00:02:02 There is an immense peace and freedom.
00:02:06 This is the irony.
00:02:07 There is a freedom, as G.K. Chesterton once said, that comes within the bounds.
00:02:12 right that the fences actually provide a freedom from slavery to limitless choices
00:02:21 and opportunity or you've heard me use this illustration before the fish might say i don't
00:02:27 like being confined and and bound and enslaved to this pond i want to be an autonomous fish
00:02:36 I want to have liberty.
00:02:38 And so one day it swims as fast as it can towards the bank
00:02:42 and jumps out of the water at the last minute
00:02:44 and frees itself from the pond to die on the shore.
00:02:50 The pond was not its prison.
00:02:53 The pond was its proper context designed for the fish to thrive in
00:02:58 by God who determines our nature and our context,
00:03:03 our purpose, our lives, everything.
00:03:06 everything. And one of the ways that you can kind of trim down the fat, as it were, when it comes to
00:03:12 daily practical life, knowing what should I say no to, what should I say yes to, is by starting at the
00:03:19 top, right? You've probably heard the illustration. I know that it's a bit of a cliche, but it's true
00:03:24 and it's helpful. The illustration that if you're going to fill a bucket and you've got, you've got
00:03:29 rocks pebbles sand and water well what do you start with first you you start with the rocks
00:03:38 if you fill the bucket with water first there's no room for anything else you do the rocks then
00:03:44 you pour the pebbles and they're going to sprinkle down in between all the crevices and the cracks
00:03:49 between the larger rocks then you slowly pour the sand which will fill all the spaces between the
00:03:54 rocks and the pebbles. And lastly, you pour the water. You start with the big things. The higher
00:03:59 yes defines the lower no's. And God has made this plain in his word. We know what are our priorities
00:04:08 of loves. St. Augustine talked about this, this same concept, saying that what we need is a
00:04:15 prioritization of proper affections. We start with love for God, seeking his kingdom first,
00:04:22 and all these things will be added unto you.
00:04:24 Loving the Lord your God with all your heart,
00:04:27 with all your soul, with all your mind
00:04:28 and all your strength.
00:04:30 Then next we go to neighbor.
00:04:32 Okay, but which neighbor?
00:04:33 Because currently we have about 8 billion of them. 1.00
00:04:37 Well, we begin with our wives
00:04:39 and our children and our parents.
00:04:43 We see in the scripture
00:04:45 that if a man does not care for his family
00:04:49 and even his extended family,
00:04:52 his household immediate family and even extended family then he has denied the faith the bible says 0.99
00:05:00 and is worse than an unbeliever so we prioritize first our families loving the lord then our wives 1.00
00:05:08 our children our parents extended family beyond that we move to the church and if there's anything 1.00
00:05:15 left, if we have opportunity, as Galatians 6, 9 through 10 says, then we can do good to others
00:05:22 also. Do good to all, so long as you have opportunity. But especially, that is, prioritize
00:05:30 the household of faith. Can I be frank with you for just a second, right here at the end?
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