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In this episode, Jerrad Lopes reflects on the importance of staying close to God even in the good times. He shares personal experiences and biblical examples to highlight the dangers of becoming complacent and comfortable. Jerrad encourages men to be wary
You’re tired.
Not just physically; though yeah, that too.
You’re tired in your bones. In your soul.
Trying to be a steady husband, an intentional dad, a man of God… but deep down, you feel like you’re falling short. Like you’re carrying more than you know how to hold.
Dad Tired is a podcast for men who are ready to stop pretending and start healing.
Not with self-help tips or religious platitudes, but by anchoring their lives in something (and Someone) stronger.
Hosted by Jerrad Lopes, a husband, dad of four, and fellow struggler, this show is a weekly invitation to find rest for your soul, clarity for your calling, and the courage to lead your family well.
Through honest stories, biblical truth, and deep conversations you’ll be reminded:
You’re not alone. You’re not too far gone. And the man you want to be is only found in Jesus.
This isn’t about trying harder.
It’s about coming home.
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You guys ever go through seasons of life where you just feel like you are not close to the Lord? Um, I, I don't know how else to say it, man. But you just, like, you're not praying, uh, it's hard for you to pray. It feels like you're trying to muster up the words. Um, you, you just don't feel like. Um, you know, nothing's clicking spiritually, you're just kind of apathetic and mundane towards spiritual things.
And it's not that you don't want to be, you want to be close to God. You want to feel spiritually connected to Jesus, but you're just like, man, I just, I got nothing right now. Um, in some ways, man, if I'm honest with you, I feel like I'm a little bit in that season of life. Um, nothing bad's happening. In fact, everything's pretty good.
Um. Marriage is fine. I feel like Layla and I are doing great in our marriage and, uh, kids are good. Um, everything's fine. You know, dad's tired of going well and relationships with my friends are going well. Um, don't feel like I'm having any unconfessed sin or things like that, you know, just everything's kind of mundane, uh, including my relationship with the Lord.
I've just been praying lately like, God, I wanna be close to you. I don't pray a lot, to be honest in this like kind of. I don't know if I'm honest, kind of apathetic season. I don't feel like I'm, my prayer life is going well. That's kind of a churchy way of saying that, but I just don't feel like I'm talking to God a lot.
Um, but when I am praying it, it just feels like, God, I, I wanna be close to you. Draw my heart back to you, draw my heart close to you again. Um, and I always feel weird talking about this, you know, in some ways. As somebody who, I guess my full-time job is ministry, you know, um, I write books and do this podcast and, um, my job is to point people closer to Jesus, and sometimes with that comes, comes this unspoken pressure of.
Always feeling really kind of, you got, like, you have to have something profound to say when it comes to spiritual things. And every time somebody talks to you, you gotta point them closer to Jesus and, and say something profound. And, um, it's a, that's a weird place to be, man. Just so just know like your pastors are feeling that every, like, everyone in any kind of spiritual leadership position feels that, um, I don't know how many would admit to it, but, um.
So it's just kind of, it's weird for me to say because there is this unspoken, um, expectation. Maybe it's from people and maybe it's from just putting it on myself, but, um, it makes it hard to admit those times Anyway, so I've been feeling that man. And, um, today, um, was my youngest daughter's first day of preschool.
We homeschool all of our kids. Um, and, uh, so. I have, if you're brand new to the podcast, I have four kids. I have a 13-year-old and 11-year-old, a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old. It was my three year old's first day of preschool, and she's just gonna go two days a week for three hours a day. So it's very minimal.
You know, we, we homeschool the rest of the time, but we do kind of supplemental co-op things and you know, this is a little like two day a week Montessori thing. Anyway, so my, I'm packing her up. We gotta take one of my, my son, he's starting his, um, classical conversations is what we do for our homeschool co-op.
So he's starting that today. So my. Daughter, uh, or so my, so my wife is taking him to his classical conversations co-op at the same time that my daughter is starting her first day of preschool, this little Montessori preschool. So she's taking him, and I had to take my, my daughter and so I'm getting some, you know, um, first day of school pictures with my daughter and she's got her like grumpy face on kind of nervous face on.
And, um, as, as I'm taking pictures of her and getting her packed up, I can see my wife is fighting through the tears of her baby girl's first day of school. And I'm like, I'm, I, you know, I put my hand on my wife's shoulder and I kind of rub her back like, it's okay babe. It's like, this is two days a week, three hours at a time.
Like this is nothing, uh, too crazy. And you know, but for a mom, this is like a big deal. She's trying hard. There's a first day of school, she's got a little backpack on. This is a big deal for a mama bear. So. She's fighting back the tears and I'm telling, reassuring her that everything's gonna be okay. Be strong.
So I put my three-year-old in the car and we drive to. School and she wants to play some songs on the way. It's just her and I in the car and she wants to play some songs. She's got a perfectly good attitude and, um, we get to the school and the the drop off line. You gotta move fast. Yeah, I'm not very familiar with drop off lines.
I'm sure many of you are, but you know, this is the high pressure situation. All the teachers are lined up there and you gotta move fast. You can't like dilly dabby. So dilly dally. Uh, so, uh, so anyway, we're, we're circling around and, uh, we get to the front and the teacher's like, pull forward. You know, I'm, I'm all rushed.
And, uh, we finally get to the spot where I can stop and let my daughter out and I can tell she gets a little nervous and the teacher opens the door and she's gonna unbuckle her and take her out. And, uh, my daughter, my 3-year-old who's really, I. She's my kind of one of my child that you never know where things, she could go complete meltdown mode.
She could go scream mode. She could go, I don't know which way this is gonna go, but I could tell she's nervous. But anyway, she, uh, the teacher opens the door and my daughter just says, will you hold my backpack? She's never seen this teacher in my, in her life. She said, will you hold my backpack? And the teacher's like, sure.
So she grabs her backpack and she just holds her hand and she like, walks in, like zero problems, just walks in, they shut the door and you gotta like get outta there. Like go, go, go. You know? So preschool line's moving baby. So, uh, so I just leave, you know, the whole process took about three seconds. It felt like I'm just dropping my daughter off for the very first time ever at school.
And the whole, I get three seconds to say my goodbyes, and so the door shuts and the car's quiet and I drive off. I. And bro, my eyes just immediately well up with tears outta nowhere. I'm like, what the heck is happening here? Uh, I'm, you know, I just spent the last 20 minutes telling my wife, be strong. It's two days a week for three hours a day.
And here I am, uh, with tears in my eyes as I dropped my three-year-old off. And bro, here's the first thing I did. First thing I did in that situation, my eye, I can feel all the emo, just this floodgates of emotions just kind of fill my body. And the very first thing I do. Was pray. I didn't think about praying.
I didn't think I should pray now. I just pray. And because I didn't know what else to do, all the emotions hit me. All the hard things hit me. I didn't know what else to do, so I just started praying. I said, God, I don't even know what to say right now. I imagine this is what you feel with your kids. Um, give me strength.
Protect my baby girl today. Give her courage today. Would you be with her as she's starting her first day of school and doesn't know anyone? Would you be with me? Would you be with my wife? You know? So I'm just, I just pray. I'm just praying out of the overflow of my emotions and, uh, it wasn't forced. I didn't feel like I should be praying right now.
It just, it was the first natural thing that I felt like I needed to do or that I had to do, that my soul needed to do. And it's so small, dude. It's such a small thing, but isn't it true, man, that we find ourselves praying when we feel like we need God? Um, when, when we feel like our, when our, like when our kids are sick, our marriage is falling apart, or we are caught in sin, or we've got sin or addictions that we can't figure out, or we're in a financial spot, we don't know how we're gonna pay the bills.
Um, we're in a difficult situation at work. We're in something that is out of our control. What do we do? We pray and we don't. Nobody tells us to pray. N you know, we don't have to be reminded, Hey, you should probably go through five minute Devotional and, and pray these prayer. Like, we just, we're just praying bro.
'cause we're just desperate. God, will you show up today? I don't know what to do. I feel completely outta control and we find ourselves just running to God. And I, I was thinking about, you know, um, the story of David and Goliath, obviously, like that's a very well known story, but I was thinking about this the other day and you were thinking about David early on.
I don't know. Let me, let me, let me do. I'm gonna, I'm gonna type on my computer as I'm talking to you, but how old was David when he killed Goliath? So, um, they say various texts, clues, uh, various clues in the text. Scholars estimate that David was likely between 15 and 20 years old. Okay. And then how old was David when he became.
Okay, so David, somewhere in his late teenage years, maybe early twenties, when, um, when he's goes to kill Goliath, and in this season of his life, he's a young shepherd. He's out tending to the sheep and protecting the, the flock. And, you know, there's all kinds of, um, you know, he kills. He's just a strong young man.
Brave, strong young man. And, uh, the Israelites are being mocked and their God is being mocked. And he sees this going on with Goliath and nobody wants to stand up to Goliath. And David says, I'll do it. This young boy, um, teenager, maybe 20-year-old boy, so has the courage to say, I'll do it in the hard times, in the face of adversity and everything that's going wrong in his society with his people.
Um, he says, I'll do it. And he rises up and he, you know, we all know the story. He. He defeats Goliath. He kills Goliath with these stones in a slingshot. And then you fast forward, it says David was king when he was 30 years old. Um, so 10 years, maybe 15 to 10 to 15 years, David becomes king. And at that time, um, kings go off to war with their soldiers.
They're present with their soldiers, but David doesn't go off to war. David stays back at the palace and as he's there living this comfortable life, um, he's taking a walk on the roof and he sees Bathsheba and he thinks to this himself man, that woman's beautiful. And as she's bathing and, uh, and he lusts after her and he lets the lust.
Get the best of them. We've all been in situations where you can be tempted and the temptation, just as a side note, was not the, was not the sin. Um, you know, I don't, I don't know if he planned, but didn't seem like he planned to see something that day, but he saw something, something that caught his eye, that, and we all see something throughout our days and weeks that catch our eye and.
There's this famous saying that says that you can't stop a bird from flying over your head, but you can stop it from building a nest. And so a bird flew over his head that day. Um, and that's not his fault. You know, the temptation is not his fault. Temptation for you is not your fault, but letting the bird build a nest in your hair on top of your head that that's your fault.
Like you're sitting there and you're, you're building upon it. You are, instead of turning and running from the temptation as we saw, like guys like Joseph do back in the day. Um. When he was tempted, uh, instead of that happening, you sit and you kind of fester on it and you think about it and you, you, you let your mind go further and further and further, which is what King David did.
And King David lets his. Lusts get the best of him as he's comfortable, as he's not off to war. And he ends up having, uh, you know, an affair. He sleeps with this woman who's married and then, you know, out of his guilt, decides I, I probably shouldn't have done that. Now she's pregnant. Uh, let's kill her husband so that I can try to fix this situation.
The whole thing just spirals outta control. The dude was just taking a walk. He's taking a walk and, uh, in one decision that leads to another, that leads to another. His whole life falls apart and his whole life didn't fall apart. Because something was really difficult happening in his life. His whole life fell apart when he was really comfortable.
When he's king, when he's not off to war, when he's taking a walk, everything starts to fall apart. And you just contrast that from Young King or young David Shepherd, David, who's in the middle. Of turmoil, whose life is at stake, who's in the middle of battle and persecution, and he rises up to become the man that God is calling him to be.
He rises up to the occasion. You contrast that with comfortable King David, who's not off to battle, who's taking a walk, who's eating well, who's sleeping well, who's drinking well, who's not worried about his life at that moment? And in that moment, all he makes decisions that his whole life falls apart.
Where am I going with this? The, the point is, um, maybe the, the greatest struggles, the greatest battles that we will face as men are not the times where things are going really difficult when you can't pay the bills. When your marriage has fallen apart, when you are dropping your daughter off at the preschool line, you feel completely outta control and the emotions overwhelm you and she's out of your protection.
Um, maybe the, maybe the greatest battles aren't in those times. Of course, those are battles, but maybe the greatest battles are actually the, the, the quiet ones. Um. When, when you're in, when you're in success, when you're comfortable, when things are going well, when the kids are healthy and your marriage is fine and the bills are paid, maybe those are the most difficult moments.
Um, maybe those are the moments where the enemy is actually on, on the greatest attack. Like David, bro, he was just, he's just taking a walk. He's comfortable. The enemy decided, let's use this time to attack, to, to make his life completely fall apart. Affairs lapse in judgment, um, broken integrity, murder, uh, babies.
You know, like, like out of wedlock. Like all so many bad things happened out of his comfort. Not out of his trials. And so I guess I'm speaking to myself and I, I'm, I'm speaking to you as a dad tired guy who wants to lead his family. Well, you know, like I, I guess I'm just cautioning us to be wary of the comfortable times.
To be wary of the good times. You know, there's that saying it's, it's been used a lot in the political, we're in a election year right now, and I've heard this saying quite a bit this year, but it says that good times create, and I might butcher this a little bit, but the idea is good times create or bad times.
Create strong men. Strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and you get the idea there. It's pretty self-explanatory, but when things are hard, you rise up. Um, you, you, you start to dig deep within you, and that creates, um, men who, who are willing to fight and men who are willing to fight, create good times.
And then these good times create weak men because they're comfortable, they're lackadaisical, they're soft, they're let their guard down and. And then that as a result of having becoming a weak man or having a society of weak men, you create hard times. But you know, we can talk about that from a national or societal perspective, but really just talk, look at it through the lens of you like, bro, when things are hard, I.
Um, you have the opportunity to create a strong man. And a strong man is one who's desperate for the Lord, who prays often, who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, who's persecuted, but is trusting after Jesus, who is throwing off the things that entangles him, the sin that entangles him, and he is laser focused on the prize that's set before him.
That's what hard times do. And then when the hard times create that good man, but then that, that strong man in you. Or God's faithfulness, I should say, which is more accurate as he's been faithful to you and he shows up and it gives you grace and he gives you mercy and he gives you comfort. In the comfortable times, we actually become weaker men, and we all know that.
And that's really what I was describing at the beginning of this podcast. You become this man who's not praying enough, who's not desperate enough, who's not hungering and thirsty. After Jesus enough, you become comfortable and you start to convince yourself, I have this thing under control. And just today as I drop my daughter off.
At preschool, such a small, tiny, little trial, I mean the smallest, dumbest little trial, even the glimpse of it wells up the just a glimpse of I'm a little bit out of control, just kinda wells up this thing inside of me where it helps me realize I am not in control. I am not, uh, as put together, I don't have as much control over my life as I thought I did, or I think I do and I need Jesus to show up even in something as small as dropping my 3-year-old daughter at a two day a week, three hour a time preschool, bro.
Just in that moment, I feel the sense of I'm outta control God. I need your help. And so it just makes me think about Jesus in Matthew five, very first public sermon Jesus gives. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Blessed are those who are persecuted, blessed are the meek. You know what I mean?
Like why is it a blessing? Because you're, you're realizing, dude, you're not in control. You don't have as much control over your life as you think you do, and you're actually not blessed when you're comfortable. You're not blessed when you, when your, when your bills are paid. That's so weird to say, and I don't know if it's a curse.
I don't think the opposite is true. I don't think you're cursed because you can pay your bills. I don't think you're cursed because you're marriage is fine and things are going okay. I don't think it's a curse, but man, it is dangerous. You know what I mean? It is dangerous and you get why Jesus would say it's a blessing when you're actually desperate.
It's a blessing when you're hungry and you're thi it's a blessing. When you drop your three-year-old off and your soul feels a little bit outta control and you, your emotions are well up, then that's a blessing because you're running back to me all of a sudden. It might be a blessing when your marriage, uh, is not going as well as you think it should be going, or you're going through some difficult times if you're running to me.
As the one who can fix it, who can heal, who can protect men, you're blessed. It is a little bit of a blessing when you feel like, I don't actually know how I'm gonna pay the bills this month, and I need Jesus to show up in ways that I, I don't know how he's gonna show up, but I need him to show up. I'm desperate for God to show up, to provide for my family in ways that I cannot provide for.
Isn't that a little bit of a blessing? Dude, I remember I went through this time you, I've never shared this before, but there was this transition between working in full-time ministry and starting dad tired. I wasn't ever trying to start dad tired it, it came completely by accident as me just talking about my own struggling marriage, my own hard times as a husband and father and man.
But there were times I was just, I was looking for all kinds of work. I was doing every little side job I could do to just try to provide for my family. And I went to Walmart one time, and quite literally, I know people say these stories to be dramatic, but I quite literally, we just needed milk and bread.
And so I went to get milk and bread. Those were the only two things I, I went to, uh, buy and I went to buy them and my card got declined. And, uh, um, it's an emotional morning for me. I, I apparently, um, my card got declined and I went home. And I, I quite literally had no idea. Like I had two kids at the time, um, my daughter and son and I didn't know how we were gonna pay for groceries.
And uh, I remember calling government assistance. I had never done that before and we needed some help, like to get groceries. And so I called and I, you know, you have to go through frigging government, man. There's like a million red tape and. Phone numbers and it's so confusing. So I remember I finally talked to, I got on the line with somebody and I'm like, I, I don't have groceries for my kids.
How do I qualify to get some help with groceries? And we went through the, they asked me all these questions and, um, anyway, it got to the point where they said, you're not qualified. And I'm like, okay. Um, but my, like, I don't have food for my kids, so what do I do? And I remember the woman just said like, uh, I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry. I don't know. There's nothing we can do to help. And it was quiet for a minute and it was just like, okay, bye. And so we, we hung up the phone and dude, I remember quite literally dropping to my knees and just crying and being like, I'm, I'm a dad and I don't know how I'm gonna pay for the groceries for my kids.
And I was just begging, God, I need you to show up. Like, I don't know what to do right now. And, um, nobody would look at that situation and be like, man, you're blessed. But Jesus would. In the kingdom. Isn't that like meekness? Isn't that brokenness isn't that hungry and thirsting? Is it when Jesus said, uh, blessed are those who are persecuted, for my sake, I know that wasn't persecution, but I mean, you know what?
He, he just was giving, painting this picture like when you're really at your wits in, when you've got nothing left to give, you're blessed. Why? Because you're getting a little closer to Jesus. You're getting desperate for Jesus. You're realizing you are not as in control of your life as you think you are.
And you need God to show up. And that is a blessing. 'cause all of our idea of being in control is just a facade. And I got a glimpse of that today. 'cause things are going fairly well. My bills are paid, my pantry has food in it for my kids to eat today, my marriage is fine. My kids are healthy. We have a roof over our head.
God has been good to us and I've kind of convinced myself like, yeah, we we're okay. We're all right. Times are good. And I just got a sliver, the tiniest sliver of being out of control today. And what do I do? I immediately run back to Jesus. And so I guess the point I've been trying to stumble my way through this, um, podcast episode and I apologize, is I guess the point for me and for us as men is be wary of the good times, bro, if things are going really well, have your guard up even higher.
It's easy to run to Jesus. And like I said, um, you know, throw off, there's a verse that says, throw off all the things that entangle. You throw off everything, all the sins and the things that entangle you and run after the prize that's set before you. We do that well when things are going hard, we get laser focused.
All I need is Jesus right now. When you don't know your next job or your next paycheck, or what you're gonna do in your marriage, or what you're gonna do with your kids who are sick, or when you can't get pregnant, or when you just went through that miscarriage or when somebody, you know, like when all the thing, when you can't beat that addiction, when all the things are going hard in your, you seem to get laser focused.
All I need is Jesus right now. If Jesus shows up, then everything will be okay. Just need Jesus right now, and you throw off all the things that are entangling you and you get laser focused on God. It's hard to do that in the good times. I think that's what da David, man, young David. 15-year-old.
16-year-old. I don't know how you teenage David. He, he threw off everything. I'll, I'll rise out. I'll, I'll go fight Da Goliath. I, I know my God will show up. I know who my God is. He's faithful. I trust in my God to provide during this really hard time and he rises up. That's young David King David is comfortable.
King David in his palace. King David eating well. King David nod off. Not out to war. Taking a walk, king David falls into some major sin that ends up ruining a lot of lives. Be wary of the good times. Be wary of being comfortable, be wary when everything's going really well. I remember, uh, we're, we're living at this house now.
We just moved from Oregon. Um, I guess we didn't just move. It's been two years now, but we moved from Oregon out here to the East coast. And, uh, we're living in this neighborhood. It's a, it's a comfortable neighborhood. It's, you know, it's not dangerous and, um. As soon as we moved in here, there were some people going through house to house, breaking through the cars and actually going up to people's doors.
And it was kind of surprising for everyone. Everyone was catching them on their, on their cameras. And I remember just thinking like, oh geez, and uh, there's nothing more vulnerable or there's nothing kind of that heightens you more when. You think that somebody might come into your house and do harm to your family, and so bro, I just, uh, I went into high alert, made sure all the firearms were loaded up.
I had all the cameras charged up. I got these little sensors that if you come near my property, it's like it's gonna. Chime some alarms within my house. Wake me up and I'm gonna be the first one there. I got some non-lethal weapons, dude. Uh, including, you know, I've got all my other stuff, but I also got some non-lethal.
If these were just punk, teenage kids, you're gonna get some mace balls in your face. I don't, I shouldn't be using the word mace balls. Uh, I dunno what these things are called. Non-lethal, uh, bullets, you know, that are gonna mess you up and ruin your life a little bit. Uh, I just went full tactical, geared up.
Dude, you are not coming near my property. If you do, you're gonna pay some serious consequences. I, I was not sleeping well, had all the alarms set and going, my guard was high because things were not great. Uh, and then, you know, nothing happens. Nobody comes on the property, nobody comes in the neighborhood.
And uh, all of a sudden you start sleeping well and you kinda let your guard down. And, uh, I hadn't been thinking about it lately. And, and isn't that just the spiritual stuff, dude? Like, things are fine spiritually, I'm fine, kids are fine, life is fine. And you let your spiritual guards down. And, uh, I just wonder if that's when the enemy, I wonder if that's the most dangerous time for us as men is, uh, when things are going well.
And so I guess, dude, I, I'm sorry for rambling here, but if things are going well, bro, don't let your guard down, um, force yourself to dig into the word of God. I'm, I'm preaching to myself here, man. Dig into the word of God deeper. Keep praying. Pray with your wife, pray with your kids. Seek Jesus. Do not fall into temptations when things are comfortable.
Don't convince yourself everything's okay. Keep confessing sin. Keep finding brothers. Don't stop meeting with your brothers because everything's fine. Keep getting together with godly men. Confess your sins. Keep short accounts as we talked about last week. Do whatever you can to keep the guard high. Be wary of the good times.
This is the time that the enemy would like to pounce on your life. And don't let this be the time where you make some big, consequential, hard, bad decisions that are gonna ruin your life, crush your soul, your family, your marriage. Be wary of the good times. Don't get comfortable. Don't let your guard down.
I'm preaching to myself here, but may, may we be men who keep our guards up high, even in the good times. I wanna seek after Jesus, even in the good times, I guess. Um, you know, one of the, the greatest temptations for us in the good times is to forget the one who provided it. You know, it's in the good times that we forget the one who's actually got us here, the one who's been faithful to us, who's given us the grace that we need to experience these good times.
We forget the one who's provided us grace, and safety, and comfort, and ease protection. Health. It's in these good times that we say we, we quite literally forget the one who got us here. I don't wanna do that. I wanna be a man who even in the good times is blessed because I'm still desperate for Jesus. I know that this was not where I'm at in life right now is not because I'm smart enough or good enough or capable enough to get me here.
It's because there's been a God who's been faithful to gimme breath in my lungs to gimme up this morning. He's been faithful to protect us, and I don't wanna forget the one who's been good to us and to our family. Don't forget the one who's been good to you and your family, who's brought you to where you are today.
Keep your guards up high, bro. I love you. I hope that's helpful. I'll see you next week.