We Can Have Hope

At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. This week’s guest is Gabe Lyons, founder of Q Media has spent a decade wading into the data and bringing out the conversations that we need to have as Christ Followers and to make sure we understand the waters we’re wading into each day when we go into the marketplace. 

Yeah, well, you know, it's funny, the book that I happened to be in right now is Revelation. And in studying Revelation, which is a difficult book to study, I'm doing it with a group of men. And it's been really, really helpful realizing how much God cares about us enduring and overcoming and how much that theme is there that he's with us. 

But even in the face of fear or concern or a future that we don't understand, we can have hope. That’s because he is trustworthy and he's going before us. And righteousness and goodness does overcome evil. And we can just fully count on that. And so that's been a great encouragement to me. 

It's also encouraged me towards repentance. And it says in Revelation 17 that this spirit is basically over. It's like a city that's over the whole world, that all the kings are just kind of operating underneath. Right. And it's this idea that there's a system that competes with the kingdom and that system is about greed. It's about deceit. It's about sensuality. It's about all these different attributes that actually lead us down these paths of idolatry that lead to our ruin.

And so I've just been convicted about ways in which my own life has any of those elements woven into them because I bought into an American idealized vision of Christianity or American dream or ideas that aren't true. And so it's just been a good reckoning for me to walk through and try to sift out what are these areas, especially out of the season where all of our lives have been somewhat upended. We've had to stop and pause long enough to reflect on what's been good about my life and what do I want to change and to really go through that process with my wife and our family and say, what do we want to sift out of our life? What is God trying to sift out as we move into a new season of preparation for what he's trying to do in the world?