Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast.

I'm Dalton from the Paul Trip Ministries team.

And each week, I'll read aloud Paul's

popular Wednesday's Word devotional, short, powerful reflections

that connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

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anytime on our website, the paultrip app, or on Facebook and Instagram. This week, Paul explains

how location amnesia causes us to forget we live in a fallen world, urging us to face its

brokenness with honest grief while holding on to hope in the promise of our future home with God.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

If you have little children or at any point raised young kids,

maybe you did this. You'd repeat your

home address to their tiny brain so that if they ever got lost, a good neighbor could ask them

where they lived and return them home to safety. Do you remember how old you were when you first,

or finally memorize your home address as a child? Now, as an adult, let me ask you what

will seem like a stupid or obvious question.

Do you know what your home address is today?

I'm not asking you to share your house number, street name, city, state, and zip code.

No, I want you to consider a deeply theological question.

Do you live with realistic expectations as a result of knowing where you live spiritually?

I think many of us live in a permanent state of what I call location amnesia. We've forgotten where we live. We live as flawed people in a fallen

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