When You Get Stuck, You Get Stupid

When you get stuck, you get stupid. I'm not saying

you are stupid, but for me, some of the dumbest

decisions I made was because I got sick of being stuck.

So I'm gonna just do something. Ah, sick of this.

You know when you hit send?

Oh no, understand, nonsense, understand, understand.

I might invent the undersend button, but when you get stuck.

Elijah came in our room the other night, this is

Friday night, and we were both to sleep.

We were we were off duty on parenting.

For the night and our office hours are you know,

seven am to five pm and it's off duty. And

he comes in the room laughing, and we were both

asleep and he's like, you're not gonna believe this.

He's laughing, and he had Jim Shorts.

Mesh Elevation Youth Champion, Jim Shorts, hanging from this braces.

He said, get it off, get it off. And I

was going to write, but I said, first, let me

get a video real quick, let me show this. Listen

it stuck on teeth, put a whole brace out.

Yes, look.

Broh, because.

I wish you would look at your neighbor and tell

them when you get stuck, you get stupid. Maybe don't

date anybody for six months until you heal from the

last heartbreak. Because when you get I'm in Exodus fourteen.

When you get stuck, you reach for stuff. You reach

for the stuff that you flushed. When you get stuck,

when you get lonely, when you get hungry, when you

get tired, when you get stuck. Ah now I got

the whole thing hanging out my mouth. Ah Now I

got a rainbow vacuum cleaner. Ah Now I got a timeshare.

When you get stuck, I didn't do it because I

didn't love God. I didn't because I was stopped.

And when you hit the sticking point, everybody's like, come on, rejoice.

I can't. I'm stuck, stuck in a memory.

You've been stuck in a memory.

I'm stuck in a pattern.

I'm stuck in the generational thing that started before I

ever came to the planet.

I'm stuck.

I get stuck preparing these sermons. It's horrible. I'm not

playing now. I know I've been showing you, you know,

like illegal footage of my children and everything in church.

Orthodonist is gonna kill me Monday. He's a great orthodonist too,

doctor doctor hole, yoshall look him up.

He's great. He's got to fix that. Tomorrow I'm gonna

have we're gonna have some business for him.

But when I get to prepare these sermons, I get stuck.

And it's horrible because the sticking point it makes me

want to just like give up on everything I've worked on.

Please don't think that I'm preaching to you about preaching.

That's too meta. I'm preaching to you about preaching because

that's where I get stuck, and I figured you might

get stuck sometimes too. I mean, when I go to prepare,

it'll just be moments where none of it makes sense

for everybody that's like forty and older.

Like when you had antennas.

On the TV and you you could see the station,

but not fully because you're watching your neighbors HBO before

you guys say before BC, it's under the blood now.

But it'll scramble and I won't even know where to start.

I'll be like, oh, I don't know what to say.

I'm preaching about Moses coming through the Red Sea, and

I already preach about that before, and I'm just you know,

they already know they got to the Red Sea, so

this sweeler alert won't be interesting.

So maybe I.

Should started with Abraham. Because of Abraham, Isaac Jacob and

then Joseph went to Egypt. And you never meant to

get trapped in Egypt. We went there to get food.

But sometimes you get trapped where you went to get food.

And sometimes place where you go to Survib's place where

you get stuck. Maybe just start there. But I preached

to have a couple weeks ago and to remember that

they come every week. They don't ever miss. That's about

burning bush because he went to the burne bush and

the he was butcher was burning up, but it wasn't

burn up.

It just burn it when burned up.

And maybe that's like cus and socks and comes when

your presence comes and our passion stays alive even though

we go through stuff and we burn, but we don't

burn up. And the proof of your presence is the

fact that we're on fire, but we stay on fire

even though we go through.

All kinds of health. Now has to do that.

I'll come up the bricks in the straw, because you

know he hasn't good to be talking about Holley. You

sometimes you have all the mud, but you don't have

the straw, and so you got to go get your

own straw. And you didn't have a dad, so you

try to be a dad and you don't have what

you need to be what you're trying to be. And

the double use that as condemnation, try to keep you

stuck in.

A slave as you all. And then after that, man,

I'm like, oh my god, I need a nap.

And I would just feel like I don't know where

to preach the sermon on Sunday and I'm stuck, and

I get so stuck. I don't want to say anything

how y'all doing praise the Lord? And I figure you

get stuck too, even if you don't preach sermons.

I figure you go, you know, I gotta have this

meeting at the kids school, and I want.

To go down there and talk to principle because I

don't think prinipals being fair of my kid. But I

don't teach my kids sometimes that people in fair life.

Sometimes you got them to go through things. Maybe they

need to learn of that. I figure you get stuck sometimes.

I figure you get stuck too, sometimes just a stuckond point.

And this is not the first time that you've been stuck.

And this is not the first time Moses was stuck,

And that's the good thing about it. If he did

it before. I just want to keep you breathing today

because I know you've been stuck if he did it before. See,

we get stuck, not always at the extern circumstance. Sometimes

we get stuck in ourselves, sometimes stuck as a state

of mind. Chicago is a nice city, but you weren't

supposed to be in Chicago. Sometimes we get stuck not

in where we are, but where we were supposed to be,

in our plan for our life.

And so I'm stuck, not necessarily in what it is,

but in what I thought it was going to be.

I get stuck in supposed to. You haven't been stuck

in supposed to.

My kids were supposed to be valedictorians.

I was supposed to be married. Still I was supposed to.

It can be very painful. I was supposed to by now.

My retirement went out in oh Wait.

I was supposed to be ready to quit working by now.

I was supposed to be married. My roommate got married

and she's crazy, and I'm good person, and I'm a

Christian girl and I sing in the choir at Elevation Valentine,

and I'm supposed.

To be married.

Some of us are stuck in what we think we

were supposed to be and get stuck. Didn't get stuck

in a season. Every time in fall, I start to

feel a little drained from the ministry of the year,

and then depression can come in because it's the.

Same same, same, same, same same.

And then everybody else in the church is feeling the

same way.

And then I got to preach to y'all. So, like.

You know, I grew up in the low country of

South Carolina. You don't know where I'm going with this yet,

hang on. They used to take their trucks out on

Friday night and get stuck on purpose, called it muddon.

But I found out something now.

You don't get stuck in anything shallow.

If you feel stuck, that means you're in the deep stuff.

Maybe God is doing something deep in your life when

you feel stuck. Maybe when you feel stuck you're building strength.

I mean, that's the only way you really build strength,

right is to get to that sticking point, To get

to that point where you can't push through.

I know you lift weights all the time, pe wag,

how about you bench press? Huh five thirty five? All right,

five thirty five. I'm making this up. I didn't hear

what he really said, but he's big, and you know

he's in there. I used to have this spot or

in high school.

I didn't bench press five thirty five, but he would

stand over me, and the moment I started to struggle,

he would just lift the whole weight off of me.

I thought, well, man, that's not a good spotter. That's

not a good God to never let you have any weight.

That's not a good God to never let you have

any challenge.

How would he grow your faith? No, see a good spotter.

You're on Rep.

Eleven right, five point thirty five Rep eleven Ah, And.

I'm just a little stuck. And God is standing over

your life. I need you to know this.

And he sees where you're stuck, that sticking point, and

he says, I'm not gonna take it off of you.

I'm gonna give you a lip. Have you ever had

God be your sputter? I declare, the God of angel

Armies is standing over your life, and if you feel stuck,

he will do what you cannot do short string. He

knows how to get me past the point where I'm stuck.

But now watch this. You may not like this.

The first sticking point that Moses encountered was not Pharaoh.

The first sticking point that Moses encountered, and maybe the

greatest one, is.

That he tried to negotiate with God and he got stuck.

He got stuck at the burning Bush before he got

stuck at the Red Sea.

God's like, I chose you.

Now he's already stuck tending sheep for his father in law, Jethro.

He'd been doing that forty years because he got mad

at somebody and killed him.

Because when you get stuck, you get stupid. And so

now he's.

Doing something's doing something that's the consequence of his deceis.

And then the Lord speaks to him.

He's like, I chose you go to Pharaoh and tell

him let my people go with the hand motions.

You go to Bible school, Pharaoh, Pharaoh, okay. And so

Moses is stuck. He's like, give me chapter four, verse one,

Exodus four, verse one.

And he showed this because you might be stuck in yourself,

he said, But behold.

They will not believe me.

But you hadn't even talked to them yet, or listen

to my voice, for they will say, they will say,

the Lord did not appear to you. Know, there's two

things about this that are wrong. One is on other people,

and two it's about a future event you can't control either.

So he's stuck, and he's stuck for good reason. It's

because he knows himself. He knows Moses, you know you,

and to negotiate with God is usually like nah, I

better not try that. So I'm stuck in myself and

he's already in this crazy he's telling himself a story

of what's gonna happen. You ever been stuck in a

story of what's going to happen? Wake up in the

middle of the night sometimes just like, Aha, I'm.

In a King's ize.

Bet everything's good, got the beautiful woman in the world

sleeping next to me.

Ah, I'm screaming.

I'm stuck in a story of what might happen tomorrow

or what has happened before. You ever been stuck in

a story? Have you ever been stuck in yourself? Have

you ever been stuck in a story about yourself? I mean,

rejection is painful. But Moses takes it to a new level.

This is not rejection. He rejects himself before anybody else

has the chance to.

This is like advanced level rejec. This is prejection.

Huh, We'm not you're gonna try it.

It's a story of my life. Everything always goes wrong.

I mean, I see this. I don't want to do

a dating seminary. We already did a negotiation seminar. When

you ask her out on a date, like I know

you've got on mine to me, you gotta have some

confidence to it.

Man, walk up to her like, hey, I didn't know if.

You wanted to go Tuesday or Wednesday.

Come on, I'm helping you. Name your kid Larry. That's

my legal first name. But Moses is like, I can't

do this. I know me.

I don't have it. I can't do it. He's stuck

story about himself. Now, the bigger story does not revolve

around you.

Remember that.

When we get stuck in ourselves, we miss the whole

point that God is doing something that is bigger than you.

It's bigger than what's wrong with you. It's bigger than

what you didn't do. It's bigger than the time you

waste it and is certainly bigger than the opinions of others.

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