Finding God in the Muck and the Mire

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In a life filled with suffering, is a good life truly possible? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Eric Landry, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller ask the hard questions about sin, suffering, and real life. Just because this life can be hard doesn’t mean that we should embrace a dualism that places the body and soul in opposition to each other. Instead, we need to acknowledge a certain realism about how the world functions on this side of the fall, being honest about what is evil—and even just disappointing. We can do so by clinging to God’s sovereignty in the midst of our suffering, his creativity to use it for our good, and his kindness to give us tangible good gifts even now, while we look with hope towards the future glory that awaits.

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0:00.0	Too many of us operate with this karmic understanding that if I'm doing well I'm going to get rewarded and then we
0:09.9	Christianize that by saying God is happy with me when I have material blessings, when my health
0:17.2	is good, when my kids are obedient. But too often when we do that we actually miss the point of the good news.
0:27.0	We miss the crucifixion.
0:28.6	We miss the God hidden in suffering and death.
0:40.0	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:45.0	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the Whitehorse,
0:50.0	the Reformation came to the English-speaking world.
0:53.0	Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.
0:57.0	Hi and welcome to another edition of White Horse Inn. I'm Eric Landry and I'm
1:04.7	filling in for Mike Horton as he recovers from his recent heart surgery. I'm
1:08.8	joined in this series by Justin Holcomb and Bob Hiller. Together we're talking about the good life.
1:14.3	Guys in our last episode we defined the good life. We talked about the different
1:19.7	gifts that God has given us. We went to Ecclesiasties where he talks about good food and
1:27.1	good drink and the love of your spouse and even the toil of your work which you know we're used to seeing as part of the curse of the fall
1:36.0	but the preacher says that that's part of the good life that God has given to us.
1:41.4	I think the challenge that a lot of our listeners are probably facing is
1:46.2	that in addition to the pursuit of the good life, there's also suffering that they've got to
1:52.4	deal with in this life.
1:55.0	There are unpleasant activities, feelings, there are unfulfilled expectations, the kind of suffering that divorce brings, or a bad diagnosis, or kids that are in rebellion.
2:09.7	How do we help people understand the pursuit of the good life even when their life around
2:16.4	them seems like it's in a bit of shambles. Has God forgotten them? Has he turned his
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