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. Do you understand the will of God?

Are you really sure that you're doing what God wants you to do? These are all very important questions,

and if you don't know the answer, you'll be left anxious and fearful.

In today's episode, Paul Tripp answers these questions as we continue to listen through an old radio series called Survival Skills.

Today's episode is titled, Act on What You Can Be Sure of, and it's the seventh of the series.

Check out the show notes to see where the first six episodes can be found., and it's the seventh of the series. Check out the show notes to see where the first

six episodes can be found. Now, here's Paul with Act on What You Can Be Sure of.

Poor Josh. He lives in the world of constant uncertainty, and it just seemed to have him stuck.

Josh thought it was his job to figure God out.

He thought it was his job to look ahead and discern what God was planning for him before it ever happened.

So the way Josh lived his life was Josh was always looking for signs and clues.

Some kind of hint out there that would appear and that would somehow, some way, clue him in to what God was doing.

The problem was it just never worked.

The problem was that with all of the thought and examination that Josh sort of obsessibly

and compulsibly put into life, Josh was never really very sure of anything.

The problem was that all those supposed signs could actually be interpreted in a thousand

different ways.

Josh was not only confused as to what was really a sign from God, he was also never really confident that he interpreted the sign if it was

a sign properly. His life was just a massive questions, a massive confusion, a massive anxiety.

So, for all of Josh's zeal at being in the will of God, for all's desire to be in the

center of God's plan for him, for all that he wanted to do exactly what God wanted him to do,

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