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All right, Greg, since we were talking about how great God is in the last episode, we're going to go on to a question from James.

Is it a sin to feel let down by God?

Many worship songs talk about God never failing us and never letting us down.

Maybe in the long run, that could be true, but it's hard to not feel let down from day to day.

If I feel let down by God, am I just mistaken by definition or something like that?

Well, I'm glad you or he added the by definition, because it turns out in almost every single

circumstance, when people say, Jesus has never failed me, God has never failed me, that is a

analytic statement. In other words, it's true by definition. It's like all bachelors are unmarried.

Well, that's because the way we define it.

So if I were to ask, okay, what would be a circumstance by which you would say,

well, Jesus did let me down on this one?

He said, I can't, they would say, I can't imagine one.

Now, that's because they are not talking about their experience, really. They are talking about the nature of God and his

sovereign capability to do what's good in our lives. So even when we feel let down, we haven't been

let down because God is just a lot of circumstance in our life that we don't like,

but that he is still sovereign over and that he is still good, and he has a reason why he did that.

So this isn't a put down on those statements.

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