 I, young adulthood, a time of learning, of change, of pretending like you know what you're doing. This season of life can be really stretching, with all the necessary adulting that we're forced into, and the big decisions that we need to make. We are often left feeling alone and overwhelmed. I know I've been there. In this video I'm going to share with you three things that I think every young adult needs to hear, and hopefully you'll be encouraged to share these things with other people in your life. But first, I want to give a huge shout out to my patrons on Patreon. You guys are awesome. Thank you for being gospel partners. If you want to become a gospel partner and make what I do possible, head on over to patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple to join today. Now back to the show. Okay, you know what time it is. It's story time with Isaac. Yeah. Okay, so this is kind of a sweet story, sentimental story. I remember as a kid, whenever I'd go to bed and I'd be kind of, you know, maybe I was like eight or nine or whatever, I'd be kind of waddling over to my bed and I'd be kind of like, okay, I got to go to the bathroom. So I'd walk over to the bathroom before I went to bed and I'd look to the left and there's my parents' room and they would always say, Isaac, we love you. Isaac, we love you. But at that time in my life, I didn't really know what that meant. You think of a toddler. I had lots of younger siblings and when they were a little bit younger, you know, toddler age, I could have went over to one of them and, you know, explain to them, look, I had this delicious apple for lunch. It was absolutely delicious, so crunchy, so juicy, so tasty. Oh, so good. There's a tear to my eye because it was so delicious and this toddler's just like looking at me like, because there's a sense of disconnect. They don't really understand what I'm talking to them about. Maybe they can try to visual visualize it. But until you actually give them an apple, right, and show them, oh, this is a crunchy, this is a juicy apple, there's a disconnect. They don't understand what you mean. And similar when we hear, I love you from somebody, there's that disconnect. If we actually can't see or touch or feel, what is it that that means? What does it mean that I love you? So that's the first thing that I think every young adult needs to hear. Every person needs to hear, really, is I love you. And it doesn't just stop there because if it's simply just, I love you, there's a disconnect. But if we can show our love, then that's the game changer. Just an example of this is my dad. When I think of my dad, and actually that's part of the reason that I wrote my book that I'll be talking about a little bit later. When I think about my dad, how did he show his love by his presence in my life? He wanted to know me. He wanted to ask questions about me. He didn't see time with me as an inconvenience. You know, when we say I love you to someone else and we show that love, we're actually becoming a picture of what God's love is like for us because God loves us. He accepts us, not based on our merit as people because we're that awesome because we're that good. No, because of how good and gracious God is. He loves us. He accepts us and he wants to know us. And that is an amazing thing. And when we can give that same love and acceptance and grace to other people by just wanting to be present with them, that's an amazing picture of the gospel, amazing picture of God's love for us. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us and we can show that same love by sticking by somebody by saying, I love you to someone even when it's hard. Okay. Wow. This is so exciting. I'm actually getting worried that we have another sponsor. This is fantastic. Two sponsors in one month. This is amazing. Okay. 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I don't know if you know much about it, but it's basically torture. Okay, but for real, it's swimming, biking and running. So at the beginning of every race is swimming, right? I would get ready. We'd all line up and we'd all be ready to go. So I'd be like, okay, this is my time to shine. This is my moment right here. So I'd start going, I'm swimming as fast as I can. My arms are going. My legs are kicking. I'm just like, please Lord deliver me to the promised land. I need to get to that finish line as fast as possible. So I'm hustling down, I'm swimming and I look behind me at all these people. There's multitudes of people behind me. Yes, I am winning the race and my 12 year old, you know, self got a little bit overconfident because as I went into transition, the point where you transition from one part of the race to the next part. So from swimming to biking, you grab your bike, you grab your shoes and you start biking, right? And so in triathlons, when you wanted to pass somebody, you'd say on your left. So we'd all be on the right side of the road. You'd be biking along. And if somebody wanted to pass you, they'd say on your left. And so I'd be biking. I'm in first place. Let's go. Let's go. And what proceeded to happen was as I'm biking, I hear on your left, on your left, on your left, on your left. By the end of the bike portion of the race, I was, if not in last place, second last place, I'm just demoralized. I get my bike, I leave my bike, I'm starting the running portion of the race. But at this point, it is too late for this boy. I'm like, oh my goodness, how could I have let this happen? This is the greatest, you know, this is the greatest collapse. This is the greatest collapse since Golden State lost to LeBron, since the Falcons lost the Patriots in the Super Bowl. This is the greatest collapse since Goliath lost to David. This was bad. I was absolutely demoralized as I went to the finish line. But who do I see there? My parents. And my parents, they say, hey, we love you. We're proud of you. Good job. And I'm just like, proud of me? Why are you proud of me? What do I do? I lost. Like, you know, like, I've lost. Like, you can be proud of me when I've done something. You can be proud of me when I win. But why are you proud of me when I lose? When I have the greatest collapse of all time. But you know what that does? When you can say to somebody, I'm proud of you. Even when things aren't going the greatest, even though they maybe didn't just win the race, maybe they didn't just, you know, get the job. Maybe they didn't just, you know, accomplish what they wanted to accomplish. Even when you can say, I'm proud of you. It shows that person that they're more than their accomplishments. They're more than their achievements. Their life is worth more than just goals being accomplished or work being done. They are valuable, not only in your sight, but in God's sight too. And for you, if you're struggling with this feeling like I need to achieve, I need to perform well, I need to really prove myself in a sense. I just want to tell you, I'm proud of you. And other people are proud of you in your life because it's not about the achievements. It's not about the goals being achieved. It's not about the accomplishments. No, it's about you and who you are and your character and your heart and you being a child of God. And that makes you valuable because God created you in his image and people love you and people are proud of you. I interrupt this message to give you a special announcement. Wait a minute. What is that? Oh, my, dude, do you see this? Oh, my goodness. Okay, so here's the announcement. You can get this book for 10 bucks, 10 bucks. That's it. So it usually is something like $25 Canadian, but you can get it for 10 bucks. All you need to do is go to patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple. Sign up to be a gold or silver gospel partner. 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I'm on your side giving you that confidence and saying, hey look, you know what happens, whatever adversities we're going through, whatever challenges we may face. I'm going to be there with you. I'm going to be on your side. So from the ages about 12 to 18, I was on a basketball team, what we call Wreckball in Manitoba here, there's probably called that other places as well. But we'd actually have a name for it. It was called the Rejects League. And it was because whenever you got played Wreckball, usually it was because you couldn't make your high school team. While I was homeschooled, I never tried out for a high school team. Maybe I could have made it, probably not. But I was on the Wreckball team, the Rejects team. And there was something about being on a team that was just interesting. You know, you don't always have that one guy on your team that you weren't sure, like is his mom forcing him to be on the team? Does he like basketball or what's going on? One second he could dribble the ball off his foot out of bounds. Another second he could shoot a half court shot and win the game for you. You don't know what this kid's going to do. But the amazing thing about a team is when a team is formed. You don't get to choose your team. You don't get to decide, oh my goodness, this is who I want on my team. No, it's just like this is your team, especially in Wreckball, because everybody makes the team. So as a team, even this guy that is the loose cannon, he might do you bounce it off his foot one second, shoot a half court the second, second, like hitting it off your head or what? He's just wild, right? You're on his team. You say, hey, I'm on your team. I'm here to support you, man. I know there's going to be challenges. I know there's going to be, you know, adversity along the way. But you know what? We're all a team. So for bringing this basketball analogy to the real world, we know none of us are a perfect basketball player. We all sin. We all fall short of the glory of God. We all make mistakes, right? So the fact that any one of us can say to the other, hey, look, I'm on your team through thick and thin. I know you're going to make mistakes. I know you're going to dribble it off your foot every once in a while. But I care about you and I want to stay by your side. It reminds me of a verse in Galatians where it talks about bearing one and others burdens. And I think this is so important for young adults as communities, as, you know, just being able to pour into each other's lives to be able to say, look, I want to bear your burdens with you. I'm going to stick by your side. I'm on your side. I love you. I'm proud of you. By doing that, we're actually helping to bear each other's burdens. And maybe as you're thinking about these things, you know, whatever young adult needs to hear, I love you. I'm proud of you. I'm on your side. Maybe you haven't heard these things recently. Maybe you're in the situation where you don't have those kind of people in your life that are telling you these things. And if so, I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry. But also, I want to just tell you that, look, God sees you and he loves you. And by his grace, he's given his life so that you could have forgiveness for your sins, right? And he can be proud of you because of his grace, right? And it's not based on your accomplishments. It's not based on how good you are, but it's because of his grace and his love for you that he's accepted you. And he can say, yeah, I'm proud of you because you're my child. And he can also say, I'm on your side. And he is on your side. He will never leave you. He'll never forsake you. Well, guys, if you enjoyed this video, give it a like down below and subscribe to the YouTube channel. Thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it. Leave a comment down below and let me know what you think is another thing that every young adult needs to hear. 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