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The Shortest Journey | Episode #332 | Encore Episode #003 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stories along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that he has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. In Lamentations
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: of today's broadcast or would like to recommend it to
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  Speaker 1: a friend, you can hear this program anytime online at
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: We read in the Book of Proverbs three verses five
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  Speaker 2: and six. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
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  Speaker 2: and do not rely on your own understanding. Think about
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  Speaker 2: him and all your ways, and he will guide you
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  Speaker 2: on the right paths. We've been entitled this reflection the
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  Speaker 2: shortest journey. You know, we put our trust in many things.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us trust our investments to financial advisors. We
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  Speaker 2: trust our health to doctors and modern medicine. We trust
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  Speaker 2: safety and travel to well maintained vehicles and machines. We
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  Speaker 2: trust our children are provided the right teaching in school.
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  Speaker 2: We trust life preservers when we might drown, lifeboats when
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  Speaker 2: the ship is sinking. We trust our legislators to enact
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  Speaker 2: laws for our best interest and for our courts to
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  Speaker 2: enforce them. So are we confident that these examples of
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  Speaker 2: trust are tested and true. In America? Our Treasury Department
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  Speaker 2: imprints our money with these words. In God we trust.
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  Speaker 2: So do we truly trust God? In times of economic uncertainty?
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  Speaker 2: Or when our health fails? Do we trust God? It
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  Speaker 2: is easy for us to see that, for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: God is our last resort. The Bible states clearly that
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  Speaker 2: not only are we to trust God, but we are
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  Speaker 2: to do it with our whole heart. This is a
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  Speaker 2: conditional promise. The condition is regardless of the circumstance, God
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  Speaker 2: always is worthy of our trust. The promise is that
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  Speaker 2: He will provide clear direction. We have a problem with
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  Speaker 2: trusting God, and that problem is our intellect. When we
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  Speaker 2: believe that we can do things on our own and
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  Speaker 2: in our own way, our understanding is based on our ability,
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  Speaker 2: not his. That problem exists more with those of us who,
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  Speaker 2: either by experience our education, rely more on what we
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  Speaker 2: have been able to do. We are proud of our accomplishments,
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  Speaker 2: and our wall plaques declare it. Sadly, some even know
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  Speaker 2: so much much about God that they see little need
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  Speaker 2: for knowing him. The intellectual of today and in Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: time considered their works to merit God's favor or certainly
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  Speaker 2: man's favor. It is only when we are faced with
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  Speaker 2: the impossible, the place where we recognize our need for savior,
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  Speaker 2: that we begin to trust God with our whole heart.
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  Speaker 2: We reach the point where our intellect and our own
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  Speaker 2: understanding falls short because we worship other gods. Our sin
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  Speaker 2: of idolatry causes us to see our wretched state, and
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  Speaker 2: we cry out to God for forgiveness. Then the shortest
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  Speaker 2: journey takes that realization, approximately eighteen inches from our head
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  Speaker 2: to our heart.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: reflections on the Word with Richard Kay. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: Richard's entire archive at Talknetwork Radio dot com. We would
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great Is Thy
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  Speaker 1: Faithfulness from the America's twenty five Favorite Hymns album unless otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homan Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Additional resources used for Reflections on the Word with Richard K.
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  Speaker 1: Include Great Is Thy Faithfulness by Our Daily Bread and
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  Speaker 1: printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again, here is Richard to
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  Speaker 1: wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do
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  Speaker 2: not rely on your own understanding. Think about Him in
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  Speaker 2: all your ways, and He will guide you on the
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  Speaker 2: right paths. That is today's reflection on the world.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K.
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  Speaker 2: Or Richard and the entire team.
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  Speaker 1: This is Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this
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  Speaker 1: edition of Reflections on the Word