Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this episode of Ask Paul Tripp, Paul answers two questions about life as a disciple of Christ.

This first question comes from Brian, who writes in, I feel overwhelmed

by decisions in my life. How can I know that I'm following the will of God? Here's Paul.

Wow, the will of God, what a big topic. How to know the will of God, how to discern the will of God.

Well, Theologically, what the Bible presents is there are two primary forms of the will of God.

God's secret will, those are the planning of his sovereignty that is in his own counsel not known to us.

And God's revealed will there written on the pages of His Word.

There is no call in Scripture to try to dev divine or discern the secret

will of God please hear and about to say the secret will of God is called the

secret will of God because it's secret. Man, if I try to figure that out and try to read the tea leaves of the future, who knows where I'm going to go. The safest place to be is I'm going to give my life

to knowing and understanding and living inside of the boundaries of the revealed will of God.

Now, here's how it works.

You don't have to guide yourself.

God will guide you.

I'm sitting here answering these questions.

I never thought for a moment I would be doing this.

I could have never written my story. What I try to do

is live in the context of the revealed word of God, along with the community of the people of God,

and God continued to write my story.

That's the way it works.

You can trust God to do that.

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