In this short, the speaker reflects on the Genesis story of Adam and Eve, focusing on Adam’s silence as a failure to lead. He parallels this with his own experience in a past relationship that later became his marriage, describing how he and his partner hid from God, lived in shame, and avoided responsibility. The speaker admits he stayed silent, encouraged wrongdoing, and only recognized the misalignment a year after marriage. He emphasizes that even with the right partner, one can lead in the wrong direction if they fail to step up and align with God’s calling. The monologue ends with a direct question to viewers, urging them to examine whether they are staying silent in their own relationships when called to act.
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You ever read in the book of Genesis about Adam and Eve and wonder why they hid? And I didn't get it. I didn't really, really get it until I lived it. And this wasn't just some random relationship. This is with the woman who is now my wife, but at the time she was my girlfriend, my fiancée, my partner. And we were building something that looked right, but honestly, it wasn't. It wasn't aligned with what we knew God had called us to. It felt good. It seemed like it was working. We told ourselves it was leading us somewhere meaningful. But you know, underneath it, we were in shame. And so we hid. And we weren't hiding from each other, but we were hiding from God because what we were doing was wrong. We were avoiding conviction. We're avoiding truth. We're avoiding responsibility. to actually step up, and for me to step up and lead differently. And what hit me hard was that when I discovered this in Genesis, Adam didn't just fail because sin entered. He failed because he was silent. He failed because he stood there. He said nothing. He didn't lead. He didn't step in. He didn't pull his wife out of what she was doing wrong. And I've had to own that because I did the same thing. I stayed quiet. I went along with it. In fact, I probably encouraged it. I didn't lead us back into alignment when I knew that I should have. And the crazy part, it took almost a year after we got married to even recognize it. It came one night in a conversation, and when we look back, we realized that We weren't walking with God back then. We were hiding. We're making excuses. We're justifying it, just like Adam and Eve. Because when you're in it, you justify it, you normalize it, you convince yourself, hey, this is the norm, this is fine. But if you're not aligned, you're drifting. And here's the truth I had to learn the hard way. You could be with the right person And still be leading in the wrong direction, and that's on me. So the question becomes: Were you staying silent right now in your relationship with your wife when you've actually been called to?
