Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's Connecting Clip of the Week, Paul and Ben Fallon, executive director of Paul Tripp Ministries, discuss suffering and how God uses it for his glory and our good.

To hear more of this conversation with Ben Fallon, check out the Connecting Podcast, episode 38, wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Here's Paul with Ben Fallon.

But I want to talk about the importance of biblical faith.

Biblical faith is really faith in God.

We don't know what's going to happen next.

We literally have no clue of what we're going to face.

You and I have unexpectedly faced a level of physical challenges that we never thought we would face.

You, just when your contribution to the ministry is really beginning to rise

and me at the point of my greatest ministry influence just rendered very, very sick.

And you never can plan your life so well as to prepare yourself what's next.

That's the most arrogant thing ever.

You cannot prepare yourself for what comes next.

You should live responsibility and you should plan,

but you just don't know what's going.

God does.

And he doesn't reveal those things to us ahead of time

because if we knew our whole life story, we couldn't handle it.

So they live in the secret will of God.

And so rest is not based on your understanding of the future.

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