In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. We see God's grace in two ways. One, I've already named,

which is the fact that God in His mercy allows us to progress in our maturity and providentially, as we're progressing in maturity, to progress in our maturity and providentially as we're progressing in maturity

to progress in the difficulty of the trials and tribulations that we face.

Israel doesn't cross the Jordan River and start with this battle. They start small

and the challenges increase in the very same way that our maturity, our faith,

starts small and through the process of sanctification over time, we mature and it grows.

This is a mercy of God. Again, this is not a 100% guaranteed promise, but it is what we might refer to as an ordinary principle.

It rings true ordinarily, more often than not, that God allows us to face various trials, challenges, and difficulties that are within the realm of our maturity during that season of life.

He did this with David. He did this with Israel under the command of Joshua.

And ordinarily, very often he does it with New Testament Christians in a corporate

sense, but also as individual followers of Christ today. So that's the first way that God is

gracious. He's gracious in his providence. He's gracious in the caliber of trials that he assigns to us

at specific times, based off of stages of sanctification

in our growth. God is gracious in his providence. You know,