Make This Mindset Shift in 2026 and Everything Will Change
We go through things in our lives that it is how we behold it [music] that determines how we feel about it. It is how we choose to see it. [music] Whether it is execution or offering. If you are suffering and in agony and in turmoil and feeling disconnected from the world and like life is passing you by while you wrestle with and grapple with the atrocities and the vicissitudes of life, I want you to know that tomorrow is coming.
Not long ago, my wife had a medical problem that slipped upon us like a thief in the night. in the midst of doing our daily task and going through our routine, she she she collapsed on the bedroom floor and we had to call 911. And it was just the beginning of a very difficult situation. And it’s amazing to me that every so often, no matter who you are, where you live, or how much faith you have, or what you drive, trouble comes right to your house.
>> It meets you at the door. It challenges you in ways that you cannot always control or correct. And you have to endure. Endurance is a part of crushing. To talk about crushing and talk about enduring seems like an oxymoron because who can endure being crushed? But we do >> every day.
We are crushed in ways that people cannot see. And though I kept preaching and though I kept teaching, I came home to deal with her illness and watch her suffer through the pain of trying to recover. And the odd thing about it is after she had the surgery, the doctor said the surgery was successful, but she was in as much pain afterwards as she was before.
>> I warn you that recovery has pain. We know that injury has pain, but recovery also >> has pain. >> And if you’re going to be healed, you have to endure the pain. >> She decided to go see my son graduate from college, but she was in pain. And she kept moving. And crushing is the idea and the notion that life does not stop to accommodate your comfort.
>> Wow. that situations and demands will not stop just because you are in a bad place or a bad moment and some kind of way every now and then you have to press above the pain and keep moving. This is the kind of thing that Jesus teaches us in the garden of Gethsemane. When the great drops of blood begin to come through the very pores of his skin, he teaches us the agony of going forward.
