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 week's connecting clip of the

week, Paul Tripp and Sam Albury discuss the goodness of God and how that reality should

shape the way we view

everything else in our lives. This short excerpt is from a larger conversation between Sam

Albury, Paul Tripp, and Shelby Abbott on the Connecting podcast. To hear Sam's full story,

check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 291. Now here's this week's connecting clip of the week.

Okay. So 291. Now, here's this week's connecting clip of the week. You know, I'm hearing as you've told your story, it's in the backdrop of all of these

moments is that early grace of God in revealing himself to you as good.

Yeah.

You've carried that.

And it's just that makes such a huge difference.

I mean, there are a lot of believers who've been believers for a while who still struggle with believing that God is good.

And that does such damage to your Christian experience.

And that early conclusion has just served you so well throughout your whole life.

Yeah.

It's beautiful. No, and it's,

I don't do this consistently or as well as I should do, but typically even when it's something

painful is going on, one of the questions I'm trying to ask is what uniquely good thing might

this scenario be the catalyst for, even if it's through tears?

Yeah, and one of the, we've talked about this, one of the things that the gospel confronts us with is that God has the ability to bring the very best of things out of the very worst of things.

The cross is an argument of that.

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