Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach

wrock and in today's episode we're

asking the question is being weird the

key to love and the reason I'm asking

this is it's something I read this week

in the Washington post and I should make

the point that it's going to take me a

second to connect this to love but hang

in there because I think it's a pretty

powerful point it was actually an

article about interior design it was one

of those articles where they recommend

that you practice something or you apply

something to your life to kind of

elevate uh your living situation and in

this article what they were saying is

that when you're designing your

Interiors in your home you should not be

afraid of being weird and by being weird

what they meant is you shouldn't be

afraid of introducing something into the

room that doesn't feel like it fits

there something that doesn't match the

color scheme or doesn't match the vibe

and the argument was pretty simple they

were saying that a lot of us decorate

almost like we're replicating something

we've seen in a magazine there's a kind

of sterility to it you know kind of

pristine condition that makes it feel

like a well-designed room but not

necessarily a home a lived in space and

actually the key to a room going from

the magazine to an actual home is you

interjecting something personal

something messy something weird

something that only you would put in the

room which then makes it your room

instead of just a randomly kind of

perfectly designed space and that got me

thinking because the reason we tend to

design sterile spaces is because culture

has a way of telling us that the path to

being accepted the path to to not being

made fun of or to being included is

sterility that we should be like

everyone else and the more we're like

everyone else or the more we design

spaces that are like everyone else the

more we will fit in and the thing is

that might be true that might be the key

to be to fitting in but it's not the key

to being loved and the reason why I say

that is because when the Bible talks

about being loved it is often synonymous

with the concept of intimacy and

intimacy is being fully known and fully

loved in other words it's the idea that

someone really knows you not not the

sterile you not the professional

clinical you but the real you the the

weird you the the you with all the parts

that you tend to hide that the key to

being loved is actually someone seeing

that knowing that part of you and

choosing to love you anyways the the

best Biblical reference for this comes

in Genesis when the Bible says that Adam

and Eve were naked and without shame

what that means is that Adam was all the

way Adam with Eve and Eve all the way

Eve with Adam there was no sterility

there was no professional version there

was no clinical space for them to spend

time with they both knew who the other

person was and they loved that person

which actually enabled that person to be

themselves including all the weird parts

and I and I say this because we've

covered lonely a lot in wake up lookup

and how we are increasingly a culture of

isolation and a culture of loneliness

and if you've ever wondered how it's

possible that you could be in so many

crowded spaces and yet be so lonely the

answer is you're not naked and without

shame you're presenting a version of

yourself but the same thing that is true

of your spaces in your home is true of

your own life that if you really want to

be loved that's going to mean letting

your weird come out letting your ESS

come out letting your sides of you that

you tend to hide actually be known in

the context of marriage in the context

of friendships in the context of your

church because letting down your guard

is not only how you let someone love you

it's actually how you let yourself

receive love and what this article was

telling us is it's actually the key to

Bringing life into our homes and into

our spaces so if you've been feeling

alone even in crowded spaces I want to

challenge you that in response to this

episode with the right people in the

right situations you might commit

yourself to actual intimacy being known

and therefore being able to be loved

even your weird stuff hey thanks so much

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