Pastor John's new book is about the precious doctrine of God's Providence.

The title is simply Providence.

God governs over all that He has created.

He reveals this to us in a thousand texts, more than a thousand texts in the Bible,

all over the place, and by welcoming us into this incredible revealed reality, God calls

us to see and savor this truth for ourselves.

He wants us to treasure His Providence so much that it brings tangible change to how

we live our lives.

To that end, we are setting aside Wednesdays on the podcast to look at a few of the implications.

There are ten of them in the series.

Last time, in episode 1583, we looked at how the Providence of God protects us from the

trivializing effects of contemporary culture and from the widespread habit of trifling

with everything, even the great things of God.

That was implication number four.

Here now with implication number five, is Pastor John to explain.

I suppose, Tony, that among all the challenges that characterize our lives and the lives of

those who write to us the frustrations of ordinary life and how to cope with them are

right near the top of our concerns.

In other words, things come into our lives that are unplanned, unexpected, either very

frustrating or sometimes very painful.

And the question is, is it possible to be patient with all the unexpected, frustrating things

that come into our lives and that's where this fifth real life benefit of seeing and savoring

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