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

I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip Ministries team.

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This week, we'll hear a poem from Paul about the grand story of redemption

and how God calls each of us to be a part of it.

Here's this week's Wednesday's work.

Thank you. Wednesday's work. Embedded in the story of redemption is a principle we must not miss.

God uses ordinary, messy people to accomplish his extraordinary divine mission on

earth.

It's beautiful and amazing, but it is messy.

What mission board, ministry, or local church would use the people God used in Scripture?

To name just a few.

Moses, an exiled murderer.

Gideon, fearful in hiding.

David, the shepherd boy with no military training, Peter, who publicly

denied Christ, Paul, a persecutor of the church. Along with these are untold numbers of little

people God used in big ways to fulfill his plan on earth. You are included and enlisted in that

wonderful plan today. But for much of our day, we are too easily captivated by our self-centered little schedules,

chasing after a life consumed by personal happiness and achievement.

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