What's the most difficult circumstance or relationship you're currently facing?

Have you got it in your mind?

Now I want you to listen to this program because God has something to say to you today. Stay with me.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally

disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. Thanks for joining us as we

continue our series trusting Jesus no matter what how to build an unshakable faith.

Chip's heart for this new teaching is to strengthen your relationship with God

so that you can withstand life's most turbulent storms.

And the first step in deepening that connection stand life's most turbulent storms.

And the first step in deepening that connection

is by getting a more accurate picture of Jesus,

which is where chips headed today.

So if you have a Bible, go now to Colossians,

chapter one as we dive right into Jip's message

discovering who Jesus is.

You know trusting Jesus when everything is great it's not too difficult. Trusting Jesus is difficult when circumstances or relationships are really, really hard

and either you don't know what to do,

or you know what trusting in God looks like this,

but boy the implications or who you might disappoint or the cost is really high.

Yeah, I love a quote by Francis Chan Chan I read recently. He said, our greatest fear should not

be that we fail. He said, our greatest fear should be that we might be successful at things that are a complete waste of time.

In other words, what he's saying is it's so easy to be successful or to cop out or not trust God in order to be like, hey, I want this to happen,

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