Doing Math to the Glory of God
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's question is from an eight-year-old Joshua comes to us via his mom and avid listener |
| 0:09.6 | to the podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | Here's Joshua's question. |
| 0:12.7 | Dear Pastor John, my mom likes to listen to your podcast when she folds the laundry. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for filling her mind tank. |
| 0:20.6 | I have a question. |
| 0:22.0 | Did you like to study when you were eight? |
| 0:24.8 | I don't like math and I get angry when I do it. |
| 0:28.1 | I don't know how not to and I don't know how to trust God. |
| 0:32.5 | Why do I trust God to do math? |
| 0:35.5 | Mom tells me to do it for him, but I don't like it and I don't want to. |
| 0:40.0 | The harder I try, the harder it gets, but I know it makes her happy. |
| 0:44.8 | Pastor John, what would you say to Joshua? |
| 0:47.8 | I want to talk directly to Joshua, so mom, go get Joshua. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello Joshua. |
| 0:55.0 | Pastor John, thank you so much for sending your question about math and how much you don't |
| 1:01.0 | like it. |
| 1:02.3 | I promise you that when I was eight years old, I did not like math either. |
| 1:09.5 | In fact, when I was in the third grade, I failed math in the first half of the school |
| 1:17.7 | year. |
| 1:18.7 | In those days, teacher gave grades this way. |
| 1:22.1 | Unsatisfactory, satisfactory, very good and excellent instead of ABCD. |
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