We are continuing a throwback month. And I'm so excited you are about to hear a message from me

titled, I don't understand God. And I don't know what you are feeling or facing right now,

but I would imagine there are some things in your life that you are going through that you just

don't understand. Maybe you don't understand your neighbor,

maybe you don't understand God, circumstances in life that we just can't wrap our head or our

emotions around why these are happening. I preached this in 2019. I do have to say,

I was like, oh, I've definitely aged in the past six years, but it's been a beautiful

six years. I'm grateful for it. But I preached this right after I learned that my dad was diagnosed

with terminal cancer. And oddly enough, we are six years later, and he is miraculously still

alive. But I didn't know that in 2019 when I preached this message. He was given a shorter amount of time to live

than what he is still alive. And it's really fascinating looking back and realizing what our very

human emotions are when we are going through circumstances in life that we can't understand.

And what does God want to do for us in the midst of those very real emotions so that we

can come through seasons that we don't understand actually having grown and knowing God better.

God for you right now is not looking for your perfect understanding of him.

What he wants is your full self, your whole self, your vulnerability,

for you to come to him with the reality of what you're feeling and facing right now,

even when you don't understand. I hope you enjoy. So turn in your Bibles with me to the Book

of Romans chapter 11. And I'm so excited judah has been in the middle of a series

what i wish more preachers would say and i'm going to continue on that series today and can i just

say so much of the heart behind this series isn't that we're trying to like tell other preachers

in the world what to do they have to do what god has called them to

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