Today's episode marks number 800 in the Aspastajan series.

This is incredible.

God has sustained us and our technology and our health and our voices over these 163 consecutive

weeks now.

And I know many of you make the podcast a part of your daily routine and that is very

humbling to us.

So thank you for joining us every day via your podcast app.

And if you're new to the podcast, you can find and search through every one of these 800

episodes right now at DesiringGod.org forward slash Ask Pastor John.

Well many of those episodes are responses from you, Pastor John, to listener emails that

come in like this one today from a weary podcast listener named Stephen.

He writes and asks this, Pastor John, please help this tired preacher see the supreme sovereign

hand of Christ in the monotony of life, specifically when the kids are crying.

When bills are stacked up to the ceiling, Pastor John, how would you encourage Stephen?

Oh, Stephen, I hear four burdens.

I think maybe five if I read between the lines, weariness, monotony, crying children,

unpaid bills, and maybe since he calls himself a preacher a sense of guilt or desperation

that I'm supposed to be a model of believing and heralding the all-sufficient truth and

grace of God.

And here I am under this cloud.

So there's a financial burden, there's a fatherly burden.

How do I handle these kids?

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