Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Hey, friends, welcome back.
[00:00:03] This is Shannon Williams, and this is the Grace and Grit Mindset podcast.
[00:00:08] And we have been in a series, and I do want to just say I'm sorry. It's been a few weeks since I jumped on here.
[00:00:15] It happens sometimes, you know, I'm sure you can forgive me. Life was laughing, you know what I mean? So I had to take a couple weeks off. But I am back with the next episode in this series for the Steadfast One. And if you know anything about this podcast, we really just try to, you know, surrender to the Lord's ways and his, the way that he teaches us to think and so that we can become this transformed person by renewing our mind.
[00:00:50] And so in the Steadfast One, what we've been looking at are these different aspects of God's character.
[00:00:56] And in doing that, as we behold him, we become more like Him. That is the essence of what I think, what it looks like to walk out your life as a Christian instead of trying so hard to fix yourself. You actually learn, okay, the more that I spend time with him, the more that I behold him and look at him and choose that over looking at the world or looking at myself or whatever, the more I'll become like Him. We all, we are image bearers by nature, and so we are always going to look like whatever it is that we behold or we pursue or we chase or whatever you want to call it.
[00:01:34] And so if you are just feeling like, you know, I'm frustrated with myself because I don't feel like I'm the person I should be or I'm not. I'm not experiencing levels of peace and joy that I should be.
[00:01:47] My question, and just a general place of reflection for you would be, what am I looking at? What am I beholding? What am I spending my time beholding? Because that will help you determine, you know, what it is that you look like. I mean, because you are becoming whatever you're looking at.
[00:02:09] And so maybe it's just a moment of, you know, as you're listening to this, going, okay, I'm not feeling peace, I'm not feeling trust. I'm not feeling these things I should be feeling. And then realign yourself with God, not in condemnation, of course, but in a way, you know, Lord, I haven't been looking at you. I've been looking at other things. And I don't want to feel like this anymore. Right? So that's kind of what this series has been about.
[00:02:33] And this week we are going to be talking about God is My shalom.
[00:02:39] And I chose to use the word shalom as opposed to peace because shalom is so much broader and richer of a word than peace.
[00:02:49] In our English speaking world here we use peace a lot. We use that word to, to kind of mean things like, I don't know, security or some level of feeling safe or feeling that everything's going to be okay.
[00:03:12] But very rarely do we hit the mark on what it truly means.
[00:03:17] And so, you know, peace flows out of being in a position of learning to trust God. So as we learn to trust God, peace is the natural byproduct of trusting God.
[00:03:31] This weekend, this last Sunday, my husband and I went to church. And I'm so glad that we were able to be there because the message was just so good. And he was talking about Proverbs 3, 5, 6. Trusting in the Lord and leaning not on your own understanding in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will give you the desires of your heart or he will direct your paths. I think is a better way to say that.
[00:03:55] But trusting in this context is not just what we mentally ascent to do, ascend to do is just to trust Him. It's actually leaning on Him. It's actually being so dependent on him that, that we don't depend on ourselves anymore. And a lot of us fight that urge. We fight that, you know, not urge, but we fight that commandment to depend on the Lord. We still try to depend on ourselves as much as we can. Because why? Because I can control it, or so I think can control myself. I can control my own, you know, my own involvement in this situation or however you want to say it. I can trust my own and depend on my own thoughts about what's right and what's wrong in this situation or what should be done or shouldn't be done. So it's harder to trust a God that, first of all, we can't see.
[00:04:53] Second of all, do we really know if he has our best interest in mind? So I loved that message because it just reminded me so much of, you know, the things that God's been speaking to me the last few weeks about trusting him. Because to be honest, things have looked really bleak in, in my life. And I would say in the nation, what we have been facing the last few weeks and the upset that a lot of us didn't. I don't know if we saw it coming with the midterms or what, but it was a shock for a lot of us, I think. And you can get really caught up in a place of having no Peace. And you lose the peace because you lost the trust in God. Right.
[00:05:34] And so I just want to bring us back to this realignment place and myself as well, not just you, but I want to remind myself that peace flows from a place of trust. Right. So if you are a person who wants to see study Scriptures, I would definitely go back and study Proverbs 3, 5 and 6 and study in different translations, do some word studies on it because it's, it's incredible.
[00:06:00] But out of that, that passage that started the week off for me, God led me to Isaiah 26:3.
[00:06:09] And I'm going to get into that, what we're going to talk about the Lord, he will keep in perfect peace and what that actually means.
[00:06:19] But I want to set this up by talking a little bit about Gideon in Judges chapter six. Now, if you know anything about the book of Judges, you know that what had happened at this point, you're getting towards the end of that book, I believe. And it has just been a series of one quote, unquote, judge that God appointed to, to lead the people.
[00:06:44] It had just been a series of those and it had gotten worse and worse and worse with, with each one, honestly.
[00:06:49] So you can see the decline in leadership.
[00:06:52] You can just see the decline in the people and that they're continually going back to serving other gods and worshiping other gods and doing these things that God said, don't do these things. They just, you know, they keep going back to it. And so here we are in Judges chapter six. And now it's Gideon's turn.
[00:07:10] And there's some interesting things that happen in this chapter. And God gets a new name. I don't want to say it like that, but maybe more. So God reveals himself in a new way. And so Gideon ends up giving him a name that is actually God is peace, or Yahweh is Peace. So I'm going to read just a little bit of this. This is chapter six. Now. So up into this point, you got to realize they are heavily oppressed by the Midianites at this point. They're having to hide, just to beat out the, the wheat and the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. They're having to hide their food preparations because they, the Midianites would take it from them. So it's just a lot of oppression, a lot of fear, a lot of uncertainty in this moment. And Gideon's terrified.
[00:08:04] So here we go. This is chapter six. Now, the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebith tree of Oprah which belonged to Joash, the right, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress. So, interestingly enough, he's beating out wheat in the winepress, which is a strange place to do it. That probably has some kind of symbolic meaning, but I'm not going to tackle that right now to hide it from the Midianites. Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, the Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor. Which is almost laughable because he is completely not at this moment acting like a mighty man of valor. But we know that God sees beyond what a person might be in that moment. He sees him, and it's finished work of Christ in him and his representation of that person. So and Gideon said to him, please, my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, did not the Lord bring us from Egypt, but now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian? And the Lord turned to him and said, interestingly enough, this translation is the English standard. It says, the Lord turned to him, which would also be, just like it was a minute ago, the angel of the Lord. But often when you see this phrase, angel of the Lord, it's actually talking about, like a theophany, a representation of Christ.
[00:09:31] Sometimes that is what that means.
[00:09:33] And the Lord turned to him and said, go in the might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Did I not send you? Do not I send you. And he said to him, please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clean is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my Father's house. Here goes God again, choosing the weakest right.
[00:09:55] And the Lord said to him, but I will be with you.
[00:09:58] I want you to remember that phrase. I will be with you. And you shall strike the Midianites as one man. And he said to him, if now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me. Please do not depart from here until I can come to you and bring out my present and set it before you. And he said, I will stay till you return. So God is so gracious here that he's like, okay, I'll play your little game.
[00:10:22] So Gideon went into his house, prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an epa. I don't know how to say this word. Yeah. Anyways, a flour. He used some flour. Y' All. And he made some cakes. The meat he put in a basket and the broth he put in a pot and brought them to him under the terabyte and presented them. And the angel of. The angel of God said to him, take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them on this rock and pour the broth over them. And he did so. Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cake. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.
[00:11:02] Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, alas, O Lord God, for now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. But the Lord said to him, peace be to you. Do not fear. You shall not die.
[00:11:16] Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it the Lord is Peace or the Lord is Shalom. To this day, it still stands, which belongs.
[00:11:27] It stands in Oprah, which belongs to the Abyssrites.
[00:11:32] So here we see this picture of someone, a man who's terrified out of his mind, and God's called him to do something crazy.
[00:11:43] And. And Gideon's like, I'm gonna have to have some, you know, confirmation that this is really you. And God provides it. And then Gideon's terrified because, you know, he just had an encounter with God.
[00:11:57] But instead of walking away and saying God is mighty, which he is, or naming God, God is power, God is my strength, God, whatever he says, God is my shalom, which I think is so interesting for him to use peace. But see, it's. Is it interesting or is it actually befitting? Because here he is in this moment of being. He's terrorized, and he's not. He's, you know, having to hide just to get. Just to beat the wheat, to get the. The grain that his family needs so they can live.
[00:12:37] So imagine just. Just having to hide out to get food because, you know, you're being oppressed by a godless group of people.
[00:12:49] So what's interesting, though, is he has this encounter with God, and God proves who he really is and that he heard him. And God is so kind to call him by a. A name that doesn't really fit him, a valiant one, man of valor, which this is hilarious to me because this is what God does to us. He actually calls us by who we really are, not by how we're acting in the moment.
[00:13:14] I think that's so beautiful that he does that, you know? And so Gideon's like, okay, because the angel of the Lord called him a mighty man of valor. But Gideon's response is basically like, if God with us, why is all this happening? And I don't know if you can relate to that. Like, you are. You are. You know, you love the Lord, you're following him, you've been obedient, you're doing what he told you, and everything fell apart. I can relate to this on so many levels that it's not even funny. And because there's this misconception out there that if I do what God says and I obey him, things will just fall into place. Or there's a misconception that if this is really God's will, everything will always line in advance and. And I'll just walk through the door and it'll be easy. And I wish I could tell you that that's always the case sometimes. You know, sometimes it. It does happen in such a way where you can't deny.
[00:14:12] Okay, that was. That was too easy. That I just walked through some situation.
[00:14:17] God must have been involved, and that. That does happen too. And I. I'm so thankful for those moments. But sometimes the struggle is real, right? If God is with us, why do all these bad things keep happening to us?
[00:14:35] And that's. That's a relevant question.
[00:14:37] And there again, I'm going to point us back to Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. Trust in the Lord. Don't lean into your own understanding. Just don't even. I'm just gonna be honest with you. Don't waste your time trying to figure out the whys. Just don't. Because what you're doing is you're. You're being distracted by the problem and you're getting your eyes off God. Remember I said that whatever we behold is what we become.
[00:15:01] So if I'm constantly looking at the problem, then it's no wonder that I become a person who's full of anxiety, turbulence, overwhelm, terrified, lack of peace.
[00:15:12] All those fun things, right, that none of us. Well, none of us want, but a lot of us have. And we take medication for, to be honest with you.
[00:15:20] And really the. The root of a lot of it is, is this lack of trust.
[00:15:25] So Gideon has a choice here to make because he, you know, he realizes that he's having an encounter with God, but he's afraid that, you know, is this really God? And so God proves himself, but then. Then he's afraid that he's gonna die because he's really realizes he has truly encountered the angel of the Lord.
[00:15:46] But I love what God says to him. Or the angel says, peace be to you. Do not fear, you shall not die.
[00:15:52] And so then after that, that's when he says, yahweh shalom. He gives God this name, Yahweh shalom. The Lord is peace.
[00:16:03] So here's what we have to notice about this and correlate this into a way that, you know, is what correlates to our lives, okay? When we. When we see this lesson in Gideon's life, we can take it and put it into our life.
[00:16:18] Gideon's circumstances hadn't changed yet, okay? So the many nuts were still oppressing them.
[00:16:24] The battle hadn't yet been fought, the victory hadn't happened.
[00:16:29] So they're being oppressed. And. And no one has even really tried to stand up for quite some time, I'm supposing at this point, I'm not sure how many years had passed between Gideon and the last judge.
[00:16:40] And I don't really. I didn't go back and look at that. So I apologize, but you can go back and look at that. But what we know here is that the Israelites are in a place of oppression, uncertainty.
[00:16:54] And no one is at this point. No one is standing up to the Midianites because they just seem so powerful, powerful.
[00:17:01] So they're. They're almost in a lull. They're in a place of just acceptance and fear and hiding, you know.
[00:17:08] But what's great is the Lord had already declared peace to him, right? Because he says in verse 23, Peace be to you. Do not fear, you shall not die.
[00:17:17] And he. And he calls him basically a warrior.
[00:17:21] And so I think this is amazing because Gideon builds the altar before he sees the actual result, before he sees the battle and the victory won, before he sees God's hand. God. God move his hand in some way before he actually goes out in obedience. In this way, he already is saying, the Lord is my peace.
[00:17:47] And I think a lot of us need to take that to heart right in the moment that we're at, instead of trying to fix and manipulate the situation so that we do have peace. A lot of us do that. A lot of us, you know, plan. ABCD man. I am the queen of plans.
[00:18:03] I have 800 plans in case. In case plan A fails, I have 800 backups. And to be honest, my brain gets tired from it.
[00:18:14] And I think the Lord has just kind of broken me down in his kindness in using situations that there was no way that I could plan my way out of it. I could not think of an idea that would save my. Save me, you know, fix the problem, whatever. Because I for a living, I fix problems. That's what I do all day long. So I took that skill set of fixing problems for other people and I try to do it in my own life, but it doesn't work.
[00:18:44] Because sometimes only God can fix something.
[00:18:47] But until he does, we have to learn how to trust. And from that trust will flow peace and he will be our shalom.
[00:18:59] Now that's kind of the setup I wanted to use for jumping into Isaiah 26.
[00:19:07] I love this, this passage of scripture. And you know, because Isaiah in, in the, in this book, he describes the person whose mind is stayed on God.
[00:19:21] And he says that when someone trusts in the Lord and their mind is. Is set on God, they are.
[00:19:30] They experience perfect peace.
[00:19:34] So I am going to pull up.
[00:19:38] Bear with me while I pull this up. I thought I had it pulled up and I don't.
[00:19:44] So I'm gonna find Isaiah 26. So if you are driving, obviously you can't look this up with me, but if you're not, then, you know, maybe like go find this, pick your Bible up and read this with me a little bit. Because it's just a few scripts, few verses here, but this is what the English Standard Version says. I may read it in a couple different.
[00:20:11] In that day this song will be sung. In the land of Judah we have a strong city. He sets up salvation as walls and bulwark. Bulwarks open the gates and the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. Oh, that's interesting. The righteous nation that keeps faith manner. And see, I just noticed that you keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you. So you see this comment, you see this progression actually of he trusts in you, his mind's on you. Now he's experiencing perfect peace.
[00:20:43] Trust in the Lord forever. For the Lord God is an everlasting rock. For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height. The lofty city. Now I'm going to stop right there. I'm going to read this for you. Also in the.
[00:20:58] I was trying to find the new.
[00:21:03] Let's look at the new American Standard Version Bible because it's pretty literal.
[00:21:08] The steadfast of mind you will keep in perfect peace like that. Steadfast of mind because we are talking about the steadfast one, right? Because he trusts in you.
[00:21:18] Trust in the Lord forever. For in God the Lord we have an everlasting rock, the steadfast of mine you will keep in perfect peace. Now, I want to tell you, I'm gonna have to go to the Bible Hub really quick, so bear with me. I'm so sorry.
[00:21:36] And I don't know if you know this or not, but if you want to jump into, like, what words mean, and I highly recommend it, you can use the BibleHub.com. it's free. And you can look up different versions, of course. But what I really like about it is you can also, like, say, if you're in the Old Testament, you can look up.
[00:22:01] You can get the Hebrew meaning for those words as well as the commentary. So you have a lot of theologians that will come in and give commentary on some of this, some of these passages. And it really, you know, it's. I mean, you got to use wisdom and you got to know, okay, it's the Lord. This is who I do. I agree with this. So I feel like the Holy Spirit's saying, yes, and.
[00:22:27] But also, it just kind of enriches your understanding of it.
[00:22:32] I'm sorry. 26, not 23. So Isaiah 26 is what we're looking at. So bear with me here. Okay, So we're talking about the steadfast of mind, right?
[00:22:50] You will keep him in perfect peace. Those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you. Now, I want to take a look, and I'm going to just read you some of these meanings for perfect peace. You're going to. Okay, first of all, let me just say this.
[00:23:08] The Greek word for peace here, you will keep him in perfect peace is shalom. But what's interesting is it actually reads as shalom, shalom.
[00:23:18] So it does not actually, in the Hebrew have a word for perfect. It actually is double. It says, you will keep in shalom. Shalom, as opposed to what we have has been transliterated for, transliterated for us as perfect peace. In the actual Hebrew, it's peace, peace or shalom, shalom.
[00:23:41] Now, isn't that interesting to you? Because I. When I read that, I thought, okay, that's.
[00:23:47] That's Isaiah, really making sure we understand there's really not another word he could add as a, as a.
[00:23:58] As a word that would further describe peace or shalom, I would say shalom, because our definition of peace is not exactly what shalom is. So he just says, I'm just gonna say it twice because I need you to understand how powerful shalom is.
[00:24:12] So I want to read you some of the, Some of the words that describe shalom I think they're really interesting. So of course it means peace, well, well, fair, safety, safety, well, being peacefully. So a lot of these are kind of repetitive.
[00:24:32] Prosperity, health, I love safety.
[00:24:38] Let's see. So Strong's exhaustive concordance means, well, favor a friend, great, good, health, perfect, perfect, prosperity, rest.
[00:24:52] So here's the best one that I. I think personally to me is that the exhaustive concordance, nas. Exhaustive concordance says it means completeness, soundness, welfare and peace, which is a much broader description to me than just peace. Shalom is completeness, soundness, welfare, peace. And it's this. It's this idea of wholeness. So God will keep in complete wholeness, complete soundness, complete safety.
[00:25:26] Those whose minds are fixed on him, those who trust in Him.
[00:25:34] So what we see as.
[00:25:36] And I mentioned this earlier, but what you see is this progression. A person who, who learns how to trust the Lord. And by the way, we trust the Lord by going through experiences with him, right? Because we can't trust someone we don't know, right?
[00:25:51] The more that we experience with God, the more we walk through life with him, through the good and the bad times, the more faithful we see he is, the more faithful we see that he is.
[00:26:01] The more that we trust, the more that we trust, the more that we get to experience this shalom, this completeness, this soundness, this welfare, this prosperity of soul.
[00:26:15] And I don't just, you know, when I say prosperity, I'm not like, talking necessarily about money. That's great. But you can be broke, man, and still have shalom, and still have a prosperity in your soul because you know him, because you understand like what Gideon began to understand because God said, I am with you.
[00:26:35] That is shalom. The very presence of God is shalom.
[00:26:41] He is the Prince of peace. My husband and I were talking about this morning about this passage. And, you know, I mean, I don't know why we're surprised. He is the prince of peace.
[00:26:50] I mean, he describes himself that way.
[00:26:56] And I don't think that peace is the big enough word. And that's just the translation that, that, you know, the translators decided to use. Or like, I don't even know what word to put here. I'm just going to use peace. I feel like that kind of encompasses it. But it doesn't because it needs more description than just peace. Because our.
[00:27:14] Our English language doesn't really have a word. So it's shalom.
[00:27:18] So it's complete completeness, wholeness, soundness, welfare, perfection in that it's complete, not perfection. In that there's no flaw in you, but you're complete because he's with you, because he made you in his image, because you've been redeemed as a son or daughter.
[00:27:38] So this is just beautiful to me because it really reminds me that I don't have to have all my problems fixed to experience shalom.
[00:27:50] Right? Because that would be impossible. Have you ever had a day where you didn't have a problem?
[00:27:56] I mean, have you ever had a season where you didn't have some kind of major problem? I don't know. Maybe I've had a few times in my life where I wasn't, you know, life was kind of coasting and I didn't have anything major going on. But Honestly, the last 7, 8, 10, 15 years of my life, every, every season has had its challenges. And there have been days that, you know, I had to make a choice. And a lot of times I made the wrong choice. Which is why I so greatly appreciate understanding Shalom and understanding that if I trust him, I'm going to get to experience this completeness of mine, this wholeness of mind, this steadfastness of mind.
[00:28:37] See, because the more that I trust him, the more steadfast I will become. When I start to realize how steadfast he is, I lean into it and I depend on him and I just trust him. I myself am going to get to experience not just shalom, but now I'm going to become more steadfast and I'm going to become a person who can encourage other people who might be struggling with trusting God. I can show them, hey, I know where you are and I understand. I've been there. But I'm telling you, there's a whole other life on the other side of trusting God. Like, if you can surrender your need to know everything, your need to understand every little thing that goes on in your life, or your need to understand what God might be doing, you can surrender that control, then you can experience shalom.
[00:29:22] Because that's trust.
[00:29:24] Letting go and surrendering the need to know everything is trust. It's a trust fall, right? It's a trust fall. Like, I don't like God's telling you to jump or he's telling you to fall back, but you don't see him back there and you don't know if he's really going to catch you. But guess what? If you lean into it and you just release it, you get to experience.
[00:29:45] You get to experience shalom.
[00:29:48] And I think that's really something that's on My heart. But also I feel like, you know, we are in such a place of uncertainty right now. Probably not just in your personal life, but as a nation.
[00:30:01] So I want to say shalom. Shalom.
[00:30:05] God will keep you in shalom. Shalom. If you can learn to keep your mind. If you can learn to keep your mind steadfast on him, but also learn to trust Him. And that's for all of us. And so whatever you might be facing right now, whether it be personal crises or a relationship issue or a loved one who may be ill, or maybe you're fighting illness, or maybe you're financially unhappy, unstable, I get it, man. That seems to be the.
[00:30:32] The thing that hits me the most.
[00:30:35] Not surprisingly, because I work in finance. That makes sense.
[00:30:39] But the Lord desires to keep you in this perfect place, peace. To keep you in shalom. Shalom. He wants you to experience that. He wants you to know that you don't have to live as a victim of your circumstance or being afraid or terrified. This is not what he has for his children.
[00:30:57] For his children, he has shalom. He has completeness, soundness, wholeness, tranquility, even is a great word. Contentment, quiet.
[00:31:08] All of these words can be related to our idea of peace or shalom. So, yeah, this is a. This is good stuff. I hope that it's. It's blessing you and that it's causing you to want to dig a little deeper and to just trust him more. And if you're struggling to trust him, just be honest and tell him. I am struggling to trust you. I'm thinking of the man with the withered hand who said, you know, Jesus said, do you believe? And he said, I believe, but help my unbelief. You know, like, being honest with him and just saying, like, I don't.
[00:31:44] I love you and I trust you and I believe you, but there's a part of me that doesn't, you know, that's the human part, and that's okay. And I think when we're honest about it, he can help us. When we try to hide it and we don't bring it to the light, and we just try to act like, you know, everything's fine, it's all just pretense, then he can't do a lot with that. But if we'll be humble enough and surrendered enough to say, I'm struggling with this, Lord, and I really want to be better. I want to be better at trusting you. I want to trust you so much that. That I'm not blown about by the winds of Change and false doctrine or things that are happening in the world. I'm not blown about by that or circumstances in my life that I'm so angered in you. Because that's what he wants, and that's what it's going to take to be a strong, thriving Christian.
[00:32:33] You have to be a person who's anchored, who knows the Lord, who trusts him.
[00:32:38] So that is this week's conversation. I hope that it blessed you. I just would ask, hey, if you like my stuff, just make sure you subscribe to it. And, you know, because what. Whatever platform you like, I'm probably on that platform. Even Spotify, YouTube. Actually, all my podcast episodes go there.
[00:33:01] As well as the normal platform forums like Apple and our Apple podcast and Google has their own thing. I think, whatever, all of them, I'm there. So make sure you go subscribe there. And it really does help me grow my audience. I'm just. I'm just trying to do this out of obedience. I. I'm not trying to be famous. I'm not trying to be.
[00:33:21] I did that, tried that, been there, failed miserably. I'm just. I'm just a person who loves God and I want to help other people, people who may be struggling in the same way that I struggled for years and felt alone and felt tormented by their.
[00:33:37] Their thoughts and by the enemy and felt afraid.
[00:33:41] I pray that. That these podcasts help you in some way.
[00:33:46] And, hey, I just pray that you have a really good rest of your week and that you choose to trust the Lord so that you can experience his shalom. I'll see you next time.
