Episode Transcript
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[00:00:10] Welcome back to another edition of the Weekday Podcast. We're so thrilled you're here. If you don't mind, would you consider sharing this podcast with a colleague, a friend, a family member? You can send them to weekdaypodcast.com and we'd love to encourage even more people. Well, today's episode is Stop Waiting to be Right. Stop Waiting to be right. In Philippians 1, verse 6, it says, he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. And so today I just want to be honest. I'm really good about talking about courage, but sometimes I'm actually terrified to practice it. There's someone that I've avoided reaching out to for months and months now, not because of some dramatic blow up, but just honestly adrift. A conversation that went sideways, a little tension that neither of us addressed. And I told myself I was being wise by giving it space, letting things cool down.
[00:00:57] But the truth that I've had to face is I wasn't actually letting go. I've been carrying it. And so every time I saw their name, I felt the weight. And calling it wisdom did not make it any lighter. And so when I preached recently about this passage of John 21, the sermon I was actually preaching to myself and maybe to you today is this. Most of the time we're not waiting because we're mature. We're waiting because we want to be right and would rather be right than be reconciled. In John 21, Jesus closes the gap with Peter. And one of the most striking things that he does is move first, without a single word about what was right or what was wrong, Peter denied him publicly three times. Jesus had every reason to let Peter sweat it out, to make him grovel, to require a full accounting before breakfast. But he doesn't. He just shows up. And that act of showing up before the apology, before the resolution, before the whole thing is sorted, the that's what makes grace so disorienting and beautiful at the same time. And here's what I know about broken relationships. The gap. It only grows with time. If nobody moves, you can wait six months, six years, six decades. And if no one closes the distance, nothing changes the silence. It just gets heavier. So the question isn't whether the timing is perfect. The question is whether you're willing to stop letting distance win. You don't have to have all the words. You don't have to have the whole conversation mapped out. You just have to take one step to send a text. Not the full apology, not the detailed explanation, just hey, can we talk? That's it. That's moving first, because here's what you'll find. Most of the time, the person on the other end has been waiting too, hoping someone would move, hoping that it might be you. And so here's what I would encourage you to do. Is there someone you've been waiting on, hoping they'll reach out first? What would it look like to stop waiting and to send them a text today? You don't need to be fully ready. You don't need the courage to have the whole conversation. You just need the courage to take the next step.
[00:02:56] Sometimes we'd rather be right than reconcile. But, Grace, it doesn't wait to be deserved. It moves. Give that a try today and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
