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In this video 0:00 Fire Service Impact on Family1:36 Identity Tied to Work and Promotion Struggles2:28 God's Maturing and Identity in Christ
Fire Service Impact on Family 0:17 The biggest impact that me being in the fire service has is on my kids. It's not an easy thing to deal with given given your daughter's a driver's license and saying, hey. Here's the keys to the car.0:29 Go ahead and go out on Friday night and go to the football game, and you're gonna be driving home at 10 30. And I'm thinking back to last week when I was on a major car accident at 10 30 in the evening related to0:41 alcohol. I remember very early on in my career, I was on a traffic accident. The driver of 1 vehicle survived where 4 other people in that vehicle died.0:53 It was for senseless acts. They were racing, lost control of their car, hit a pole, and that Mercedes was sheared in half. It literally was cut1:05 in half at the back seat. I didn't sleep the rest of that night, and it was something that was burned in my in my mind for several days. And I remember being mad at that driver.1:17 How could you do this? I was a firefighter. I would go to work and I would be this way and then I would have to come home and1:30 play the role of husband, play the role of dad and I didn't always do that so well. Going to work and being a firefighter that became my identity and it was a long journeyIdentity Tied to Work and Promotion Struggles 1:42 for me to realize that my identity is not being a firefighter. I had been a fire captain for several years, and I had a desire to promote to1:54 battalion chief. I knew I could do the job. I was confident. I was doing well on the test, but I wasn't getting it. It was, it was heartbreaking.2:08 It it took a toll on my confidence. I I found myself getting mad and somewhat bitter at other people within the organization or those that have been promoted for whatever2:19 reason and then getting mad at God. God, I've done everything you wanted me to do. How come I haven't been given this yet? Looking back, what I realized is that was God maturingGod's Maturing and Identity in Christ 2:31 me. That was God growing me. That was God shaping me. And I think God brought me to the point where whether I got promoted to battalion chief, I'm gonna put him first. If I didn't get promoted, I'm gonna put him first2:43 and I'm gonna glorify him in both of those results. At the end of the day, you gotta have a community of believers that you're running with. You can't be2:55 doing this alone. You can't do it alone. You've gotta have God at your forefront, and you've gotta have a a group of fellow believers that have a common interest supporting you and guiding you. And and, when you're down,3:07 they're there for you. When you're up, they're there for you. No matter what it is, every facet of life, you face it together. And I can tell you that no matter what you face, you think you're alone,3:19 you're not. I just promoted this year to battalion chief. The calmness, my demeanor, my approach, what I say to the person, how I3:31 value other people has completely changed, and that's all because of what God has done for me. There's freedom3:43 in surrendering and dying to myself. My identity is in Christ and in Christ alone. And that changed for me in how3:55 I would go home and treat my wife and my kids, and that changed for how I would go to work. And I was a firefighter, but I was more importantly, I was a child of4:07 God.
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