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To be whatever you want to be, to be whatever you want to be. Actual truths, theological precedence, foundational beliefs, wrapped in a melody, shrouded in sound. Inspirations and affirmations, anthems of praise that reverberate from generation to generation. With one voice, we echo the promises of our God. These are the songs that we sing. We are continuing our annual summer series called Songs We Sing, where we look at what scripture says about a lot of these different songs that we do here at Canvas Church. And there's been two scriptures that have really kind of like set the foundation for us. We've read them every single week. Psalm 33 and Ephesians 5. And they say this, Psalm 33 verses 1 through 3 says, Let the godly sing for joy to the Lord. It is fitting for the pure to praise Him. Praise the Lord with melodies on the lyre. Make music for Him on the ten-stringed harp. Sing a new song of praise to Him. Play skillfully on the harp and sing with joy. And then Ephesians 5.20 says, Sing songs from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our master, Jesus Christ. And we see all throughout scripture that we're not just suggested to sing out to God. We're instructed through the Bible to bring a song to God, to sing joyfully unto Him. And it's not just a time in our service where we can begin and end a service together to check a box. There's something that happens when we come together and we sing out the truths about God. God knew that when we sing the scriptures, it reminds us of who He truly is. And that we can put our full faith and trust in Him. And that's what we are doing through this series. I want to start with a question. Have you ever been, and maybe this isn't you in your garage at all, but have you ever been driving through a neighborhood and a neighbor has their garage open and it is slammed full of stuff? I mean, like, nobody's walking in that garage. This is definitely not you. This is definitely not me if you were to ever see my garage. But you know what happens when you look at a full garage that you can't even step into? You don't stand there and go, you know what we need? A few more shelves. That would really help the situation. If I just could get to that wall and put shelves up, it would solve all the problems.

No. You know what you do to a full garage that you can't even step into? You look at all that junk and you say, we've got too much junk. We need to get rid of half of this stuff. We've just got to get rid of all of it. Making room, it always starts with removing. And that can be very overwhelming when you're looking at so much stuff. You're just overwhelmed. I don't even know where to begin. When it comes to ourselves and God, so many times we get overwhelmed with a full schedule, with a full life, and we think, how am I supposed to fit God into this? How can I actually fit God into this busy life? We all have the same 24 hours. And I think a lot of times we ask the wrong question. Because the question is not, do I have enough time? The question is, what is taking up my time? What is filling up the space in my life? Think about this. The average American, this is just average, the average American spends 2.5 hours per day on social media. Just social media. That's not even on their phone. That's just social media. Also, the average for watching TV is 2.5 hours per day. So what that means is we are, and in younger generations, that's even higher. But let's just take the baseline of that. That means we are spending over four hours a day where we are constantly looking at something that is speaking into our life. That we are hearing things that's speaking into our life. And this is not a message against social media. This is not a message against TV. I have both. I love both. I use both. But what I am trying to say through this

is that the issue is not that we don't have time. The issue is that we are already making room for something in our lives. Every day, we make room for something. And today we are unpacking the song, Make Room, that we just sang together. It was originally written by, there's a bunch of different writers, but they were a group called Community Music. It's been recorded by a lot of different churches. But I wanna start right here, the bridge of that song. It says this, shake up the ground of all my tradition. Break down the walls of all my religion. Your way is better. Your way is better. That line, your way is better. Do we actually mean that when we sing it? Because it's one of those, it's fun to sing, right? Yeah, God, your way is better. Your way is better. But what if his way is better means that it's gonna cost us our comfort? What if it's gonna take us out of our comfort zone? What if it's gonna cause us to sacrifice something in our life? What if it means we're gonna have to release control of our life? What if it means he's gonna call us to something that we're just like, are we still gonna sing your way is better? Are we just gonna kind of skip that part

and maybe whisper it? Yeah. How often do we do that in our life though? Where when it actually comes down to it, are we willing to release that control? Are we willing to actually live in a way where his way is better? When it comes to our identity, do we base it on his way? Or do we base it on how we feel? I mean, lay this over anything in your life. Do we really mean that when we sing it? We're gonna unpack some scripture together in the book of Acts. In Acts 17, if you brought your Bible and you wanna go ahead and flip there and be ready, Acts chapter 17 is where we're gonna be. And we're gonna read that in a moment. But first to set it up, this part of Acts, Paul is in Athens. So Paul, he's going all throughout the area and he's preaching the gospel. He's telling people about Jesus, about the cross, about salvation, forgiveness, all those great things. Everywhere he goes, he's planting churches and it's this amazing thing that's happening. Well, Paul at this point in Acts 17, he comes to Athens. And Athens was very sophisticated. They were educated, they were influential. And Paul shows up and he sees a city full of people who are just worshiping these false gods,

what the Bible calls idols, a city full of people who are seeking truth and seeking fulfillment everywhere they possibly can, but never actually attaining it. It's a 2000 year old problem that still haunts us today. It's the same thing in our culture today. We're constantly looking around, it's like, oh, if I could just get it there, there, there. It's fulfillment, oh man, maybe this thing, maybe that thing, maybe that thing. We still struggle with the same thing today. Our culture has done the same thing. The human heart has not changed. Now, we may not worship statues of Greek gods anymore, but we still have idols in our lives. They're just a little more sophisticated now. They just look a little differently now. They're not these statues that we bow down to, but you know what they are? Money, success, power, relationships, control, comfort, satisfaction, approval, sports, politics. I mean, fill in the blank. These are our modern day idols. I love how Tim Keller defines idols this way. He says, an idol is anything that you look at and in your heart you feel like if you have it, you have meaning. Anything you look at, it's like, oh, if I just had, if I just had that,

then I would finally be fulfilled. That's what Athens was. That's what we still are today. In the New Testament, John, he ends his first letter with one sentence. He says, keep yourselves from idols. If you go to, maybe just scribble that to the side. First John, go read First John. He ends that, keep yourselves from idols. He doesn't talk about persecution or theology. He ends with idols because idols are always the greatest threat to following Jesus because they take up room in our hearts. They steal our hearts. What's scary in our culture today is that the idols that control us are often hard to spot because they've been, they've become so culturally accepted that we don't even realize we are worshiping them because we don't bow down to statues anymore, but our phones tell us what to think. Our calendar shows us what's important in our life. Our bank account and what's in there or what's not in there shows us if we're actually secure. Social media is gonna show us whether we're valuable to others. We don't have statues, but we have this idol-making. that we carry around and keep in our pockets. Idols are always gonna do two things, though, every single time.

They will eventually disappoint us and enslave us. May not be immediate, but it will always happen, guaranteed. They'll disappoint us and they'll enslave us. So if all that's true, if this is a 2,000-year-old problem that's still here today, what do we do? How do we make room for God? How can we do this in our lives? Well, let's start by reading Acts 17. We're gonna start in verse 16. It says this. Now, while Paul was waiting for them, so the them here are his friends Silas and Timothy. So if you read the beginning part of Acts 17, they were all traveling around together. Well, now Paul gets to Athens. He's waiting for Silas and Timothy. Okay, so he's waiting for them in Athens. Let's keep reading. His spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, what does this babbler wish to say? Others said, he seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. So Paul, he was doing what he does best. He's just going around.

He's telling people all about Jesus. Verse 19, and they took him and brought him to the Areopagus saying, may we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean. Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. Okay, so the people of Athens, remember they were searchers, they were seekers. They're constantly trying to find the next thing. And so Paul shows up, he does what he does and he starts preaching the gospel. And they're like, man, this is interesting. We haven't heard this one yet. Maybe we can just add this into our lives along with all the other things. They don't really get it yet. But let's keep reading verse 22. It says, so Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, to the unknown God. What therefore you worship is unknown. This I proclaim to you, the God who made the world and everything in it. Being Lord of heaven and earth does not live

in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made for one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined a lot of periods and boundaries of their dwelling place. And then right here, hone in on verse 27. That they, who's they? Humanity, us, that they should see God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet, he's actually not far from each of us. That we would seek God and perhaps feel our way toward him. And no, he's actually not far. He has this moment here. He meets them right where they are, he finds common ground. And there's so much here, a sermon for a different time on how to really live out your faith and grace and truth. It's beautiful, but he addresses it right here. He says, there's one true God. Let me tell you about him. You have all these idols, all these false idols in your life that you're searching for, you're seeking for all these things. Let me tell you about the actual thing you are missing. Basically breaks down two options for us. You can worship idols or you can worship the true God, the Lord. You can seek fulfillment from these things or you can seek God and actually find fulfillment.

And then that last line in verse 27, perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. That Greek word for feel their way in verse 27, it literally means groping, that you're actively moving towards something, you're engaging with it. You're moving from something you just hear about to something that you are actively searching for and receiving. It's kind of like, have you ever walked through your house in the middle of the night to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water or something? You don't wanna turn all the lights on and wake up the kids or the dogs start barking and you gotta like, you know, you're getting all loud. Maybe that's just me, but you're walking through, it's like real quiet, you're stepping, you're feeling around, right? You're like moving stuff out of the way. You step on one of your kid's Legos and you're like trying not to scream. You're like, oh my gosh. You know the fridge is there. You know it's there. You can't really see it, but you know it's there and you're just moving stuff out of the way until you can get there. That's the picture we have right here of seeking after God. That we are moving toward what we know is there,

feeling our way towards it. Seeking God is not casually thinking about him, it's moving towards him. It's not just laying in bed going, man, I wish I had a cold glass of water, and then you just go back to sleep. No, you get up and you do something, and it's getting the stuff that's in the way out of the way. So how do we do this? How do we actually do this? I want us to walk through for our remaining time together like a three-step process of making room for God in our lives. Number one, if you're taking notes, and I hope that you are, the first thing we have to do is remove false gods. Remove false gods. We have to start with the obvious. Start with the simple. Remove false gods. We have to actually remove whatever is occupying God's space in our lives. Paul said in Acts 17 that we would seek God. Seeking God, it means we are not seeking false gods. It's this process in scripture, or it's this process in church history called mortification, mortification. It's the daily practice of killing the influence and the power of sin in your life through the Holy Spirit.

It's a life, think of it as a lifelong process of putting God first in your life. But here's the process of mortification. We'll quickly go through each of these words, but it's five words. Identify, name, starve, replace, and rely. Identify, name, starve, replace, rely. First, you have to identify it. You have to identify it. What is the thing that takes up my time, talent, and treasure? And then, once you've identified it, you need to actually name the thing. Confess it, call it out by name. There's power in actually naming the thing, not just generalizing it. I first learned this asking for prayer, right, where somebody was like, hey, how can I pray for you? And I'm like, oh, man, you know, I'm just struggling. If you could just pray for me. Like, yeah, yeah, what are you struggling with? Name the thing. And I'm like, man, I don't wanna tell you my business. Yeah, yeah, name the thing. Because something about, when you say the word, something about it, it's like you're honest with yourself, maybe for the first time. You're like, oh, man, this is the thing I'm struggling with. Let's pray over that. Like, okay, now we can get somewhere.

Scripture talks about this. It says that there's power in confession. There's actually healing in confession. So you identify it, you name the thing. Next, you starve the craving. Cut off the nourishment. I like to tell myself, delete the dumb. Delete the dumb. Because sometimes we say, oh, man, I'm struggling with whatever sin this is. But really, we're just being dumb. We're making poor decisions. I'll give you an example. If you struggle with comparison, maybe doom scrolling on Instagram for two and a half hours a day is not the best call, right? Maybe. Delete the dumb, AKA delete the app. Get rid of it, starve it. Distance yourself from the environment that feeds that desire. Jesus in Matthew, he tells us, cut it off. Completely cut it off. Identify it, name it out loud, starve it. Next, replace it. Because removing an idol leaves a hole that another idol will just come in and fill. If you delete Instagram so you stop comparing, the danger is you're just gonna pick up Facebook and fill that time with Facebook.

Or you're gonna delete the app and whatever app falls there, just muscle memory, you're gonna click on that every single time. So you have to replace it. Colossians tells us, it encourages us to redirect our thoughts on Christ and put on his virtues like clothing, that we would focus on Jesus, replace, then finally rely, rely on the Holy Spirit. Even though, yes, we play a part in this, ultimately it's not done by willpower, it's done by the power of the Spirit, Romans 8 tells us. Ask the Holy Spirit, trust him over yourself to weaken that idol. Identify, name, starve, replace, and rely. Jesus tells us in John 12 that unless a grain of wheat dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears fruit. Death comes before fruit. That's what we're doing here. We're putting to death the desires that are at the root of these idols in our lives. We have to ask ourself a question in this. Do we love the things of this world more than Christ? Do we love the things of this world more than Christ? Because the things of this world don't necessarily have to be bad things. Many times, they're good things, but our relationship with them is distorted. Maybe off to the side, scribble down John 12 in your notes.

Go back, read John 12, specifically verse 42 and 43. We're not gonna have this on the screens. We don't really have a lot of time to unpack it, but go back and read it. It proves that you can even believe in Jesus and still fall in the trap of loving the world over him. In John 12, verses 42 and 43 of that chapter, it says, many of the authority. believed in Jesus, but in fear of the Pharisees, they would not confess it because they did not want to be kicked out of the synagogue. Like, there was a good thing that they had in their life, their church, the synagogue, but they actually, the thing beneath the thing, they loved the approval of man more than they loved God. So they wouldn't confess that they loved Jesus or that they believed in Jesus. So they took this good thing, they turned it into an idol, which at the core of that desire was just the approval of man, and then it made it where they wouldn't even confess that they believed in Jesus. The first verse of the song, Make Room, it says, here's where I lay it down. I love that. I love that we sing that verse twice. Here is where I lay it down. That's what we're doing here, removing false gods, removing idols. We are laying them down. This is not an easy thing to do because it means we are releasing control. If you're anything like me, you're a bit of a control freak. I'm the kind of guy where anywhere I go, I have to be the one driving the car. Part of it is because I get a little car sick, but also, I love being in control. Also part of it is that I seem to always be riding with a friend who, when they're driving, they're the kind of person that when you're talking to them, they have to look you in the eye when they're talking to you, which is fine unless you're the one driving the car. So I'll ask a question, and they're driving, and they'll be like, oh yeah, and then they'll just, yeah, so you know I was thinking, and then they're just looking right, and I'm over here like hitting the fake brake, you know, like, okay, how about we just pull over, get some gas, and I'll just take over

from here. I hate not being in control, and this is all about releasing control, removing the false gods, removing these idols, laying them down. It means we're giving control of our actions, of our thoughts, of our life over to Christ. And I know at a point in a message like this, it can sometimes be a little difficult, it can be hard sometimes to identify what those idols are. It's usually easy to spot like the sin in our life that we need to maybe, you know, lay down at the foot of Jesus, like the bad things in our life, right? But what about those good things? What about the good things in our life? How do we spot, how can we tell if we've taken a good thing, and then we've put it in God's place in our heart? I'll give you a question to ask that might help you, might help turn the wheels a little bit on this. What would make me angry at God if He took it away? What would make me angry at God if He took it away? Money, home, job, position, title, a person. I'm not saying that like we don't mourn these things, we're not sad at these things, we maybe even ask why God about these things. Yeah, like there's a process. We are human. There's a process we we walk through, but as far as just an exercise to maybe see some things that we maybe have put in front of God. If you were to lose your job, would you be angry at God? If you went to check your bank account and that thing's empty. I mean, what are these things that you've maybe put in God's place? Jesus is not saying that we have to get rid of all the material and just become monks, but there is a tension we always will live with where we fight to not find our happiness and fulfillment in things that are not God. It's kind of like a marriage. If you think your spouse will complete you, you are putting undue pressure on somebody that they cannot fulfill. They cannot do what God is meant to do in our life. You ever seen Jerry Maguire? Tom Cruise was full of it. We said, you complete me. Nah man, it's garbage. It was cool for the movie. Okay, I get it. It ain't true though. You can't expect that. You can't put that pressure on and not just in relationships, but we do that with our stuff too, our material things. A marriage, your spouse is meant to complement. You complement one another, not complete. And it's the same with our material things. They complement our lives. They should never be what

completes our lives. The minute it does, we've just melted down something new and made an idol out of it every single time. How do we make room for God? Okay, it starts with removing false gods, removing idols, but simply removing is not enough, which moves us into number two. The second thing we have to do is reorder our worship. Reorder our worship. Idolatry, it doesn't just affect what we worship, it affects why we worship. Athens, they were worshipers, but the problem was they worshiped things out of order. They worshiped based on their feelings. They worshiped on what they could get from, what they perceived they could get from something. They wanted gods that served them, but how often do we? Do the same thing. We want the benefits that could come from God. Who doesn't want peace and blessing, provision, protection, healing, answer prayers? Problem is we start to Amazon Prime God. I pray, you deliver. Every time, we just naturally fall into that. I obey, now you're gonna bless. I serve, now you're gonna heal. But what if God doesn't give you what you want? What if he doesn't answer your prayer? You still gonna worship him? You still gonna trust him? If he doesn't give you the promotion? Or if he doesn't answer the prayer that you've been praying for years? You still gonna put your faith in him? You still gonna worship? Or was I really just worshiping the thing that I wanted him to give me? True worship says even if none of those things come,

you are still worthy. You are still enough. This is why when we sing, when we serve, when we give, even when we don't feel like it, we are teaching our soul to choose God in every circumstance. When we choose worship, when we choose thankfulness, we are shifting from what can God do for me to how can I give God my all? Let's take church as an example. Do you feel entitled toward God? Do you feel entitled towards his church, what scripture calls the bride of Christ? Most of us would hear a question like that and go, no, I don't feel entitled toward the church or towards God. But do you walk in, expect to just be fed, do nothing with it? You walk in, you get fed, but then there's no serving, there's no giving, but hey, I'm here. One of the things my family's put in place at our house is that the cook does not clean. Some of y'all just like nudge the person next to you real quick, you're like, did you hear that? The cook does not clean, that sounds nice. But we did this just as a way to not start to feel entitled. Because if one person's maybe better at cooking or whatever, then all right, so the other person's gonna get really good at cleaning the dishes. Like we don't ever wanna feel entitled

towards one another. So again, I ask, what is your entitlement level when it comes to the church? The bride of Christ, do you show up and eat what's been prepared and then walk out and leave? Got a little quiet on that one. When we serve in the church, we're offering worship back to God. When we give in the church, we're offering worship back to God. When we sing in the church, we are offering worship back to God. And we do these things no matter how we feel. You know, that's one of the reasons why we start every service and we say these words. Hey, let's stand and let's sing together. Let's sing together. We don't just say that to just say something before we start singing the song. We're encouraging you to make the choice to sing to God regardless of how you feel. You know how many times I do not feel like singing on a Sunday morning or at any service? A lot. At least one time every time I'm in here. At least one where I'm over there and I'm like, man, I just start thinking like, man, it's been a long day. I'm kind of tired. I haven't had that like fourth cup of coffee yet.

Maybe, I don't know. I'm just gonna let everybody else sing. Me, me, me, me, me. You know what choosing, just something as small as choosing to worship God even when you don't feel like it. You know why that's important? Because it is teaching us to put Christ over ourselves. We're teaching our soul in that, we're teaching our feelings in that moment that hey, feelings, you don't run my life. Feelings, you don't sit on the throne of my heart. Christ does and I'm gonna choose him in this moment even when I don't feel like it. I'm still going to choose it. I'm still gonna choose Christ over self. True worship, it always costs us something. Time, talent, treasure. If there's no cost, is it really worship or is it just convenience? Has entitlement crept in? How do we make room? Remove false gods, so remove whatever's occupying God's place. Second, reorder our worship, love and worship Christ regardless of how we feel. And then number three and finally, rearrange our life. Rearrange our life. Think about the junk drawer in your house. You know the one drawer where like everything ends up

that you think maybe one day we might use this again? Batteries, pens that don't even work anymore, rubber bands, chargers to like 20 phones that you don't even know what happened to these things. The problem is eventually it gets so full, you don't even know what to do with it. even know what's in there. And it's hard to rearrange something if you can't even take an inventory of what's there in the first place. So sometimes you have to take everything out before you can put things back in their right place. You have to take inventory of it. So practically, look at your life. Take inventory of your life. Get a bird's eye view and ask yourself, what gets the first of my day? What gets the first portion of my day, every day? Your first thoughts. Is it your phone? Is it the news? Is it the world's opinions? Is it the weather? Is it God's truth? Because whatever consistently gets first place has already made room in your life. So before we can even rearrange, we need to see what's already there. Take inventory. What place does scripture and prayer

and community and generosity have? What does that look like? Not as religious boxes to check, but as a way of rearranging our life around Jesus. And money is such a great example of this. Because if you talk about, I'm a believer and I give God my first and my best. Okay, if you don't have control over your finances and you don't have even just a budget built out, how can you know that you're giving God your first and your best? You have to rearrange. You have to arrange your finances in a way where you can actually walk this out. And this is important because Jesus tells us that our hearts follow where our money goes. That it's not about the money, it's really about our heart. Which is really an issue with all idols in our life. It's a heart issue. Augustine, he famously says that sin is disordered loves. Disordered loves, loving good things more than the greatest thing. In idolatry, it isn't just worshiping the wrong thing. Sometimes it's loving the right things in the wrong order. So we're not saying you have to turn your back on career, home, money, hobbies, success. We just have to put them back in their proper place so that Jesus alone sits on the throne of our heart. Now I love the chorus of the song Make Room. It says, I will make room for you

to do whatever you wanna do. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna make room for you to do whatever it is you wanna do. It's an invitation to reorder around Christ. You know, that's one of the reasons why we lift our hands in worship. When we sing, when we worship God through song and we lift our hands, that's one of the things we're doing. It's a sign of surrender. It's like a sacrifice of our praise, scripture calls it. We're basically saying in that moment, we lift our hands, we're like, hey God, I am here for whatever it is you wanna do. I surrender all of me to all of you and I'm here for it. What do you wanna do in my life? Shake up the ground, break down the walls. Whatever it is, I'm here for it. Ultimately, if you're taking notes to make room for God, we have to remove whatever's taken its place, reorder our worship and rearrange our life. Remove, reorder, rearrange. So where are you at today? Because really, there's only two options. There's two options in a message like this. And if you keep reading Acts 17, which I encourage you, go back, finish reading where we left off. You know how it ends? So Paul, he's in front of the Areopagus and he's talking to all the people. He's talking to all the people of Athens, right?

He's telling them about Jesus and idols and all these things. Well, if you keep reading, the last part there, when he gets done, it says that some mocked and some believed. Some mocked and some believed. So some heard him and they were like, ah, I'm good, man. I'm gonna keep searching for this everywhere else. I'm gonna keep seeking all this other stuff. I'm gonna find fulfillment over here. I'm gonna wait and hear the next thing that might draw my attention. I'm gonna go for that thing. But then others, they actually believed, which means they heard it and they're like, okay, all right, I'm gonna actually do something. I'm gonna make my way towards God and I'm gonna drop all these things and I'm just gonna surrender to you, surrender to your ways. Same response is here for us, to do nothing or to truly, fully surrender but be able to say, yes, God, your way is better. Every single one of us will leave and make room for something this week. The throne of our hearts does not stay empty. But who's gonna sit on it? Jesus's invitation is that it will. would be Him.

In a moment, a band's gonna come back out, we're gonna sing that song, Make Room, one more time to close out our time together. So what's your next step? Because maybe for you it is to remove the idols, to lay them down. As we sing this song, man, the altars are always open. If you wanna even, while we're singing, just come forward, just kneel down and just pray, and God, God, here's the thing I'm laying down. Maybe for you, it's while we sing this song, to choose to worship regardless of how you feel, to sing the words out. Maybe even lift your hands as a sign of surrender to God. Say, God, I'm laying it down. I'm surrendering all of me. Whatever it is you wanna do in my life, I lay it down at your feet. Maybe for you, it's to rearrange your life. What's gonna get your first tomorrow morning when you wake up? You know the cool thing about today, about right now? You can go ahead and make a pre-decision about what gets your first tomorrow. Go ahead and make it. What is that gonna be? It's gonna be the truth of God's word. It's gonna be prayer with him. How are you gonna respond in this moment? My prayer is that you would respond.