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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, faithful
Foxes?
It's your boy, juice man,coming in with another episode
of the Faithful Fox man.
If you're tuning in for thefirst time, buckle up, because
we're about to take you on aride through some biblical truth
with a side of that Juice manflavor you can't get anywhere
else For all my day ones who'vebeen riding with me, y'all
already know the vibe.
We're keeping it real, keepingit faithful and definitely
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keeping it funky.
So today we're diving into Luke, chapter 12, verses 27 and 28.
And let me tell you this issome good stuff.
Right here Jesus is talkingabout flowers.
He's talking about Solomon'sdrip and calling out our faith
in two verses.
That's efficiency, right there.
So here it is from the NIV.
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Consider how the wildflowersgrow.
They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you, not evenSolomon, in all his splendor,
was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes thegrass of the field which is here
today and tomorrow is throwninto the fire, how much more
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will he clothe you, you oflittle faith?
You catch that Jesus isbasically saying look at these
flowers out here flexing withouteven trying, and y'all are
still worried about your fit.
I mean, solomon was the richestking ever had the fanciest
everything, and Jesus is like,nah, these wildflowers are still
outdressing him.
That's wild.
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So today we're gonna break thisdown into three segments.
We got flower power, wherewe'll look at why Jesus used
flowers as his example.
We got fashion fails, wherewe'll get into some of our
hilarious human attempts tooutshine God's creation.
And finally, little faith, bigGod, where we'll talk about what
it means when Jesus drops thatU of little faith line on us.
But before we get into all that, let me just set the scene.
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When Jesus was teaching this,he wasn't at some fancy
megachurch with perfect lightingand sound systems.
He was probably standing in afield somewhere pointing at
actual wildflowers, while peoplewere stressing about their next
meal or what they were going towear tomorrow.
Real life problems, y'all.
All right, let's get into it.
This is the Faithful Fox.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Pray that he's taken
away our sin.
Yeah, your words give me graceand you're here in this place.
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I've been blind by your holylight.
Give me blessings from abovewhen I broadcast Welcome to the
Faithful Fox Podcast.
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All right, welcome to
Flower Power, welcome to the
Faithful Fox Podcast stars orthose majestic eagles soaring
overhead.
But no, my man went withwildflowers.
Not even the fancy cultivatedroses and some royal garden, but
straight up wildflowers thatjust pop up wherever.
And that's actually genius whenyou think about it, because
wildflowers don't do anything tobe beautiful.
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They don't hit the gym, theydon't spend two hours getting
ready in the morning like someof us do, don't act like I don't
know what I'm talking about.
The text specifically says theydo not labor or spin.
In those days, spinning was howyou made thread to create
fabric.
So Jesus is literally sayingthese flowers aren't working
hard to look good, they're notmanufacturing their own clothes,
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they're just being being whatGod made them to be.
Wow, yo, that hit differentjust now.
How many of us are out herehustling trying to look good, be
good, seem good, when maybeGod's just waiting for us to be
what he made us to be?
I had this moment last week,y'all.
I was walking through thisfield on my way to grab coffee,
head down checking emails on myphone you know, important juice
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man business when I nearlytripped over this patch of these
like tiny purple flowers, noteven sure what kind they were,
but I stopped and actuallylooked at them for a minute.
And the detail, fam the detail.
Each little petal had thesetiny veins running through it,
this perfect gradient of colorfrom deep purple to almost white
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at the tips.
And there was hundreds of themjust chilling there where most
people wouldn't even notice.
That's the kind ofcraftsmanship we're talking
about.
That's God showing off.
And the crazy thing is, most ofthose flowers will bloom and
die without a single human everappreciating them.
But God still put in that workon the design.
Solomon had people mining gold,importing exotic materials,
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hiring the best artisans in theknown world, and Jesus is still
like no, not as fly as theseflowers, bro.
And here's the kicker theseflowers that Jesus said outshine
Solomon.
They last maybe a few weeks,then they're gone.
The text says tomorrow, throwninto the fire, which means
they'd probably be dried up andused as kindling.
God put that much care intosomething temporary, something
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that no one might ever see orappreciate, just because that's
who he is A god who paysattention to details and creates
beauty, even in the smallest,most overlooked places.
So next time you're feelingoverlooked or underappreciated,
remember that the god whodesigned those intricate
wildflowers designed you too andhoney, he did not skimp on the
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details.
Speaking of not skimping on thedetails, let's talk about our
own attempts at splendor in ournext segment, fashion Fails.
But first let me tell you aboutthis purple flower situation I
got going on in my backyard.
We're in our Fashion Failssegment here.
This is where we get into howwe humans try to flex but can't
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touch God's design game.
Jesus mentioned Solomon in thisverse and let me give you a
little context on why that'ssignificant.
Solomon wasn't just rich.
This dude was rich.
Rich, not Mansa Musa rich, butyou get the idea.
We're talking Jeff Bezos, elonMusk, levels of wealth for his
time.
The Bible says in 1 Kings thatSolomon's annual income was 666
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talents of gold.
That's about 25 tons of goldevery year, plus all the silver,
ivory, exotic animals andwhatever else people brought him
.
This man had so much money thatthe Bible says silver was
considered as common as stonesduring his reign.
Can you imagine being sowealthy that people are like
silver?
That's just shiny rocks to usnow.
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And you know, solomon wasn'tout here dressing like he
shopped at the clearance rack.
The Bible doesn't give us hisexact wardrobe details, but you
better believe he had theancient equivalent of designer
everything.
We're talking royal purple dyesthat probably cost more than
people made in a year.
Gold threaded garments, jewelencrusted everything.
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Oh, this old thing.
It's just my casual Tuesdaycrown with the smaller diamonds.
You know he was flexing and look, we all do it too.
We all have our ways of tryingto stunt on the gram or in real
life.
I'm not even going to act likeI don't care what I'm wearing
when I record this podcast andy'all can't see me right now,
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but let me tell you about my ownfashion fail from last month.
I brought these what I thoughtwere super fresh designer
sneakers online, dropped astupid amount of money on them
too.
They arrived and they were souncomfortable that after wearing
them for like two hours, I wasliterally barefoot by the end of
the night, carrying them in myhand Meanwhile, my feet God's
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design had been workingperfectly fine for decades
without costing me a dime.
You see what I'm saying, butit's not just clothes.
We try to outdo God's design inso many ways.
We've got Instagram filtersmaking us look like completely
different species.
You know what I'm talking about.
We've got people gettingsurgery to look like dolls or
celebrities.
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We're literally fightingagainst God's design at every
turn, and Jesus is looking atall our efforts and basically
saying that's cute, but have youseen these wildflowers?
See?
I think what jesus is getting athere goes way deeper than
fashion.
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He's talking about our humantendency to value the artificial
over the authentic, themanufactured over the
masterfully created.
We spend so, so much time,money and energy trying to
create a certain image orimpression.
Meanwhile, god's alreadycreated us with intention and
purpose.
He's already put his signaturedesign into who we are.
It's like buying a Picasso andthen drawing a mustache on it
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because you think you canimprove it.
God's like I don't think youunderstand the value of what you
already have.
So maybe next time we're aboutto drop three figures on
something to make us look better, we can pause and ask am I
trying to improve on God'sdesign or am I honoring it?
Am I chasing artificialsplendor or am I embracing the
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authentic beauty God already putin me?
Now, speaking of fashion, let'stransition into our final
segment with this question IfGod puts that much care into
flowers that are here today andgone tomorrow, how much more
does he care about you and me,and that's what we're diving
into next in Little Faith, bigGod.
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Because I'm big and
you're small.
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So after Jesus makes
his point about the flowers
outshining Solomon, he hits uswith this If that is how God
clothes, the grass of the fieldwhich is here today and tomorrow
is thrown into the fire, howmuch more will he clothe you,
you of little faith?
First of all, can we justacknowledge how Jesus just
casually calls people out, likehe doesn't sugarcoat it at all.
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He's like you've got littlefaith and I'm just going to
point that out real quick.
And if we're being honest,that's most of us at some point
right, I know it's me sometimeswe believe in God, we trust him
with our eternal souls and thenwe stress about whether we can
pay the next month's rent or ifwe can get the right outfit for
that job interview.
It's like telling your bestfriend you trust them with your
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life, but then you won't letthem hold your phone for five
minutes.
You know, make it make sense.
But here's what I love aboutthis verse Jesus doesn't just
call out our little faith andjust leave it at that.
He gives us a reason why ourlittle faith doesn't make sense.
He's saying look at theevidence around you.
If God puts that much detailedattention into temporary flowers
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, why would he skimp on you.
If he designs grass literalgrass that gets burned up with
such care, how much more will hetake care of you, who he
created in his image, who hesent his son to die for?
It's an argument from thelesser to the greater.
If God does this much for thesmaller, less important things,
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of course He'll do even more foryou, who he values infinitely
more.
I had this moment last year andy'all know I don't usually get
too personal, but this fitswhere I was really stressing
about a decision I had to make.
It felt like my whole futurewas riding on getting it right.
I was losing sleep, checkingpros and cons lists at 3am the
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whole night, and then onemorning I stepped outside and
there was this perfect spiderweb in my yard, covered in dew
drops that were catching thesunrise like tiny little, like
prisms.
And it hit me.
God guided that little spiderto create this geometric
masterpiece that would bedestroyed by the wind in a few
hours.
That same God is guiding mysteps too.
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My little faith was focusing onall the ways things could go
wrong, instead of the God whoorchestrates spider webs and
sunrises and wildflowers withoutbreaking a sweat.
And that's the thing about ourlittle faith?
Flowers without breaking asweat.
And that's the thing about ourlittle faith.
It's not that we don't believe,it's that we don't believe big
enough.
We put God in these tiny boxesof what we think is possible or
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likely, when he's out herecreating galaxies and ecosystems
and the human genome.
What would your life look likeif you approached each day with
big faith instead of littlefaith?
What if, instead of worryingabout how things will work out,
you looked at the flowers andremembered that the God who
designed them with such care isthe same God who's working out
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the details of your life?
Jesus wasn't trying to shamethe disciples when he called out
their little faith.
He was inviting them to abigger trust, a more expansive
view of who God is and how heoperates.
And that's his invitation to ustoo to look at the evidence of
God's care all around us, fromwildflowers to sunsets, to the
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billions of stars in the nightsky, and let it expand our faith
from little to big, too big.
So we've covered a lot of groundtoday, from flower power to
fashion fails, to our faithissues, but it all comes back to
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this simple truth God caresabout details.
The God who designedwildflowers with intricate
patterns that outshine Solomon'sroyal robes is the same God who
knows exactly what you needtoday, and if you're struggling
with worry or anxiety about thefuture, I want to challenge you
to do something this week.
Find a flower.
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Any flower will do.
It could be in your yard in apark, or even one of those sad
little dandelions pushing upthrough a crack in the sidewalk.
Just take a minute to reallylook at it, Notice the details
and then remind yourself.
If God put this much care intoa flower that might only bloom
for a few days, how much moredoes he care about the details
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of your life and the next timeyou're stressing about your
outfit or trying to flex on thegram, just remember you're never
going to outdo God's designgame.
The best designer labels can'ttouch what God creates
effortlessly.
Thank you for hanging with meon this episode of the Faithful
Fox.
If anything we talked abouttoday resonated with you, share
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it with someone who might needto hear it.
And remember your boy.
Juice is always rooting for you.
Until next time, keep itfaithful, keep it funky and
remember God's got the detailshandled.
Peace out faithful foxes.