We are back with Tripley tripping your new book, Rise, you write this quote, sadly we treat

God like he's handing us sleep masks in the movie.

When really he's handing us the 3D goggles, he's not trying to block our joy and leave

us in the dark, he intends to enhance our joy to give us fullness of joy.

He wants us to enjoy life as it was meant to be enjoyed.

In quote, I love that.

So explain this though in the battle, this fight to say no to selfishness and sin, out

of a trust that God is in fact deeply concerned with my ultimate flourishing joy.

Yeah, well I know that I'm not the only one who's ever read something in scripture, I

understood something that God has said and thought it was really hard and thought wow,

you know, that's not what I want to do or I'd rather do this because scripture does

call us to hard things.

God is actually holy and he does actually call us to holiness and so it can be really

hard.

There are some things that seem really great to us but the God tells us to turn away

from them.

And the easy temptation there is to think this is because God isn't good because God

doesn't want us to have joy.

Or maybe not even the God isn't good but to think man, following God means all joy

has to be traded in.

And this is why obeying Jesus has to flow from true faith because you really have to trust

him even if what he's saying doesn't make really great sense to you yet.

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