At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. This week’s guest is Jon Hart. Jon leads Praxis Academy, Emerging Founders, and College Partnerships as a Partner at Praxis, where they focus on equipping the next generation to pursue redemptive entrepreneurship.

Psalm 65:1-3

Praise awaits you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled. You who answer prayer, to you all people will come. When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions

You know, Psalm 65 has been a big one on my mind just in the last year, especially, you know, I'm a person that bears a lot of burden.So when I see things happening in the world that break my heart, I often allow them to really break my heart. 

You know, you just open up the news every day and there's different tragedies and things going on or injustices in the world that can really sort of break our heart. But I think without the gospel, you know, it just doesn't go anywhere. It can be pretty hopeless. 

And so Psalm 65 has been a big encouragement to me. In particular, it talks about the God of our salvation, who is the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas, the one who, by his strength, established the mountains. 

And that's just such a good reminder that even in the midst of often what we see as sort of a chaotic news cycles and a lot of injustice in the world, that our hope is not in what's happening in the world, but our hope is in the God of our salvation and that he has the power to sustain us and compel us to action in the every day, even though our hearts might be broken.