Episode Transcript
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[00:00:09] Welcome back to another edition of the Weekday Podcast. I'm so glad you're with us this week. After Easter, hope you'll journey with us every single day. Today we're thinking about this idea that you can't outrun what's living inside of you. Romans 3:23 says it this way, for all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Now, here's a pattern that I've watched play out more times than I count. Now someone decides things have to change. So they think new city, new job, new relationship, new routine. And for a while, honestly, it works. That fresh start, that fresh energy.
[00:00:41] But a few months in, the same restlessness shows up at that new address. Why? Because you can change the scenery completely, but you can still take the problem with you to every new place. You cannot outrun what. What's living inside of you. Now, before you hear that as condemnation, here's what I want to say. It is actually the most hopeful thing I could tell you, because what it means is the answer isn't trying harder. It means the answer has to come from somewhere outside of you. And that's why Romans 3:23 is so important, because it's one of those verses that people know, but they stop hearing that all of sin and fall short. That word, sin, it gets used in ways that make people feel worse instead of better.
[00:01:21] But the word, the Greek word behind it, harmatia, literally means to miss the mark. Not just to break a rule, to aim for the design and to fall short, to reach for something good and to come up empty over and over.
[00:01:33] Now, that's the honest human condition, not a list of bad people who did bad things. But all of us aiming for the design that we are built for and falling short of it without some help, we can't generate on our own.
[00:01:45] And I think back when I got my wisdom teeth taken out years ago, I was like, I will try anything to get rid of the. The chronic migraines that I was having. Turns out my wisdom teeth weren't the source. I'd been managing the pain, the symptoms, while the real problem stayed hidden underneath. And that's the danger of religion. Religion works the same way. Rules and routines, they manage our symptoms, but the root stays untouched. Now, you don't need a better symptom management system. You need someone who can get to the root. And that's exactly what Easter is about. And so today's step is to name the pattern that you keep seeing in your own life, the one that shows up at every new address and bring it honestly before God. And that kind of honesty, that's where restoration begins. Because you can't fix from the outside what's broken on the inside. Turn to him today.
