Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Have you ever found yourself with your head in your hands, overwhelmed by the pressures,

problems, and pain of life?

In today's episode, we'll continue our sermon series from the archives,

elect exiles from First Peter.

In this message, Paul offers five practical directives for cultivating a carefree mentality,

not by ignoring life's hardships, but by entrusting them to the God who cares for you.

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Now here's Paul, teaching from 1st Peter.

Well, it really was the perfect picture of anything but rest,

of worry, anxiety, frustration.

My dear son Darnay, a few weeks ago, got in his 1995 Jeep Cherokee to drive from

CaloSpell, Montana to Macon, Georgia.

He got 60 miles into the wilderness of Montana, and his water pump broke.

It was able to be fixed and thinking that he had lived beyond his trouble. He got in his car

again and drove about another 45 miles now deep into the wilderness of Montana, and his radiator just exploded.

There is this wonderful picture that someone took of Darnay kneeling before his car,

water around him with his head in his hands. I would ask you this evening, how many times do you end up with

your head in your hands? Oh no, what am I going to do? What's going to happen now? If only this

hadn't happened, what am I going to do? And it goes on and on.

Do you know rest in your life? No, I'm not talking about that sort of pie in the sky, dreamy hopes and wish that aren't rooted anything, but a rest

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