Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author, Dr. Paul David Tripp,

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this sermon, Paul explains how our delusions of strength and independence are spiritually dangerous,

and why embracing weakness can be such a blessing.

Here's Paul Tripp preaching on powerful weakness from the sixth and seventh chapters of the

Book of Judges.

Perhaps two of the most important questions you could ask are these.

What in the world is God doing in my life?

What in the world is God doing in my life? And the second one is, how in the world does he call me to respond to it? What in the world is God doing? How in the world does he call me to respond to it? What in the world is God doing?

How in the world does he call me to respond to it?

There's a way that you're always asking those questions and always answering them in some way.

Maybe a way to get at the same issue would be this.

If you had to take a pencil and a piece of paper and write a paragraph describing the love of God, what would you write?

If you had to capture how God is loving you right now, what would you write?

I want to direct you this morning to a passage that I think has the potential to challenge and reframe the way we think about the love of God.

I would like to turn you to Judges Chapter 6, page 205 in your church Bibles.

This is a story that's not unfamiliar to most of us.

I'll begin by reading the first six verses of Judges 6.

The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hands of Midian seven years.

The hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian, the people of Israel made

for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the people

...