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It's natural for us to long for happy and fulfilling lives, for ourselves and for our children, and yet no one is exempt from hardship in this world.

There's good news, though, and today on Truth for Life will learn why spiritual growth is often greater through tears and disappointment than in times of laughter and success.

Alastair Begg is teaching from 2 Timothy, Chapter 3.

In the American Paradox, a book by David Myers, where he says the American paradox is that never

in the history of America have people had so much and yet never had so little.

And then he goes on to identify the fact that this sense of angst has permeated the millennials,

young people in your kind of generation and

slightly ahead of you. And he says it's striking that it is not in the lives of individuals who

grew up, as it were, on the wrong side of the tracks, but rather in the lives of individuals who

had a lovely home and a nice mom and dad and made it through school and got into college and

university and graduated and found a

job for themselves. And yet he says, the amazing thing is that they testify to the fact that they're

empty. They're baffled by their emptiness because their self-esteem is high, but their self

is empty. Now, the Christian world, the Christian

testimony, the Christian youngster growing up coming out of college and education in that

environment has something to say. What do we have to say? We have to say that united to Christ,

our adequacy is ultimately found in him.

2 Timothy 3, heading the list, men will be what?

Feel out us.

Lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God.

You see how countercultural the message of the Bible, the gospel is, that needs to seep into the

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