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.

As a Christian, you've been called to wait. Theologians like to say, between the already and the not yet.

As we continue through his sermon series in James, street level Christianity,

Paul Tripp explains why we're impatient and how waiting can produce in us something better

than we could have ever asked for. Here's Paul. It is the universal call of God to all his children.

It is a call to an uncomfortable place.

It's a call to do an uncomfortable thing.

You have been called to live in the middle. You may have been called to live in the middle.

You may be thinking in the middle of what?

In the middle of what theologians would call the already and the not yet.

Already Christ has come.

Already he has suffered and died and rose again. Already the word of God has been given. Already the spirit has been given. But not yet has sin been completely defeated.

Not yet has the world been restored to what it was designed to be.

Not yet has the final kingdom come.

We're called to live smack dab in the middle of the already and the not yet.

Thankful for the grace of the Lord. But daily aware

there's more to come.

And we're called to do a difficult thing.

Wait.

I must confess to you.

I'm not good at it.

I don't like to wait.

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