E842 | What Is God Up To in Your Life? - Part 1
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This three-part series kicks off with John and Blaine Eldredge talking about the lost art of noticing what God is up to in our lives—not just today but over time. While clarity is essential, the ultimate goal is to come into alignment with what God is doing. How do we do that? In Part 1, John and Blaine lay a solid foundation by revealing three specific suppositions for discerning God’s work in our lives so we can join him there.
Show Notes: The books referenced are The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis, Now and Then by Frederick Buechner, and The Inner Chamber and the Inner Life by Andrew Murray.
The “3 Presuppositions for Discerning God’s Work in Your Life” are:
1) God is speaking to all people at all times.
2) Most people don’t learn to discern God’s work in isolation.
3) God is interested in intimacy—and that means conversation, not observation.
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| 0:00.0 | People ask me, so what was like the highlight of your summer? |
| 0:03.4 | I'm like, I know what the most stressful part of my summer was. |
| 0:07.5 | It was doing 80 in a 45 in the dead of night, praying we do not hit a buffalo, a moose, |
| 0:17.3 | as we are blasting down to the nearest ER, which is an hour away because we've got this |
| 0:21.7 | terribly sick five-year-old in the back seat. |
| 0:24.4 | Stories of what the heck. |
| 0:26.5 | Plague people. |
| 0:27.6 | God, what happened? |
| 0:29.1 | I don't understand what you're up to. |
| 0:31.2 | Those were acute examples. |
| 0:34.1 | Things actually get much worse when we're talking about the long term. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome back, everybody, to the Wild at Heart podcast, John Eldridge, my son Blaine, with us. |
| 0:45.6 | And I love having Blaine in here from time to time because he's such a fascinating guy. |
| 0:50.2 | Like, I just want to ask you, what are you reading? |
| 0:52.1 | What are you working on? |
| 0:53.0 | And we could just go off. |
| 0:55.2 | But what we thought we would do this time is offer a couple of podcasts that is sort of spiritual direction on scale. |
| 1:07.7 | Like, discerning what God is up to in your life is a profound need of every human being. |
| 1:19.3 | And for some people, it's a very present need. |
| 1:22.1 | They're asking these questions right now. |
| 1:25.1 | So we look forward to bringing this to you. |
| 1:28.5 | But before we jump in, let's do what we always do and take our pause. |
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