{"id":301214,"date":"2006-10-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:42:29","slug":"what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do About Midlife Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Paul David Tripp talks about how you can find hope regardless of the circumstances of your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-10-13.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.35M","filesize_raw":"11903520","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2848],"tags":[4904],"podcast_series":[7478],"cwp_profile":[3097],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301214","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-issues","tag-midlife-crisis","podcast_series-lost-in-the-middle","cwp_profile-paul-david-tripp","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301214\/what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301214\/what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"apgZ3jrsYO\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles\/\">What to do About Midlife Struggles<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/what-to-do-about-midlife-struggles\/embed\/#?secret=apgZ3jrsYO\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;What to do About Midlife Struggles&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"apgZ3jrsYO\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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control?\u00a0 Here's Paul David Tripp.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0My life has never been under my control, but it's not out of control.\u00a0 It's under the control of a God who is the ultimate source of love and wisdom and faithfulness and patience and grace.\u00a0 God will take you where you do not want to go in order to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, October 13th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 So if life has seemed out of control for you, have you ever asked the question \u2013 what is God up to?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 Do you think what we've been talking about this week, as we've talked about midlife and the challenges that are there \u2013 do you think this is real for most people or do you think it's just one of those things that some folks struggle through?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, I think our cultural has done a good job of creating a category called \"midlife crisis.\"\u00a0 It's almost like adolescence.\u00a0 Even though I didn't experience it, and I remember when I turned 40, I kept thinking, \"When am I going to experience the urge to buy a gold chain?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Mm-hm, motorcycle, something like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, a red convertible.\u00a0 You know, when am I going to break out and go do all that?\u00a0 And it never happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'm not sure why, but I'm going to tell you, the e-mails from our listeners, they sure spell it out, and it's interesting \u2013 listen to this theme.\u00a0 Here is a listener who said, \"I am in the middle of a midlife crisis with my husband.\u00a0 I don't want to split but can't fix what he's feeling, which is a lost hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Here is another one that says, \"My husband was soon going through a midlife crisis, ended up divorcing me, leaving our family completely without much support.\u00a0 It's now been three and a half years since our divorce, but God's been standing with me, and I'm still hoping for my marriage to be restored.\u00a0 In the meantime, I don't hear a lot about midlife crisis and the effects it can have on a family.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We really do have a huge number of people who are lost in the middle.\u00a0 They are wandering through life and sometime between their 35th birthday and their 55th, they're going to go through an extended period of time that's going to cause them to question their lives, question their mission, their purpose, why they're here, what they have accomplished.\u00a0 They're going to look back with some regrets and wonder what the hope is for the future.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We've been exploring this theme this week with our guest, Paul Tripp, who has written a book called \"Lost in the Middle.\"\u00a0 Paul, welcome back to FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Thanks, it's good to be with you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We've talked about shattered dreams or about regrets or disappointments.\u00a0 When somebody's experiencing those things, will they actually trade in their marriage or their family to try to find something new?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0The issue with disappointment or regret is not that I experience disappointment or regret.\u00a0 You can't possibly live in a fallen world and not experience disappointment or regret.\u00a0 It's what I do with that when I experience it.\u00a0 And maybe it would be worth just going through some of the danger signs for people \u2013 how to recognize that more destructive dissatisfaction, and I think these can be helpful to give people hooks to sort of hang their experience on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One is just a cynicism for life \u2013 \"I've just become one of those dark-side, negative people and negative about life because I don't like my life.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And at that point, people have probably disappointed you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And so you lose your hope in people being the delivery system of making me happy.\u00a0 Instead, they're making me sad or maybe even angry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Yeah, that's right.\u00a0 The second would be the withholding of worship and service.\u00a0 I'm not so excited about singing those hymns and don't look forward to Sunday.\u00a0 There's a world there that seems distant from the world that I'm living in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Third, would be growing anger.\u00a0 That can range from low-grade irritability to blow-up kinds of things.\u00a0 Craving for power and control \u2013 I'm mad at how my life has gone, so I'm going to change it, I'm going to take charge of my life.\u00a0 Theological doubts \u2013 I've talked to so many people who have said to me, \"I never thought I would doubt God in the way I've doubted God.\u00a0 I thought I had settled my theology years ago,\" but they hit things, they question God's goodness and His faithfulness.\u00a0 Impatience with the circumstances because I'm disappointed in my story, I am less willing to wait to let things work out.\u00a0 I get made quickly at difficulty.\u00a0 I let go of godly habits.\u00a0 I don't want to read and pray in the morning.\u00a0 I don't want to go to my small group.\u00a0 I'm not interested in a short-term missionary trip.\u00a0 I begin to question God's wisdom.\u00a0 I wonder if God's as wise as He says He is.\u00a0 I now have a real weakened witness to the world.\u00a0 I'm not interested in sharing people about Christ because I'm upset with Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then the thing that we hear most about is this attraction to the world.\u00a0 It's that spiritual things have disappointed me, God has disappointed me, so I'm attracted to physical things hoping they will fulfill me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0The car, the other woman, the gold chain, whatever it is.\u00a0 So somebody pops into your office, and they say, \"This is how I'm feeling, this is what I'm going through.\u00a0 I'm 42 years old, I'm not happy with the way life's turned out.\u00a0 I don't want to get up in the morning, I'm angry, I'm depressed, all of these things.\u00a0 They describe that to you.\u00a0 Where do you send them?\u00a0 What do you tell them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, actually, Paul, in his book, tells a great story about what happened when he took his family out to eat.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Oh, you experienced kind of \u2013 in a one evening \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 in a restaurant \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 all of those emotions, didn't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0It's the two-hour wait, finally get into the restaurant, order the meal, wait forever to even get the order \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, your waiter disappeared.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Yeah, that's right.\u00a0 We couldn't find him.\u00a0 And then when we finally get the order, it's the wrong food.\u00a0 The manager comes and makes an apology.\u00a0 I mean, it's just one of those evenings that starts bad and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 ends worse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Ends worse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0But the key was you asked to speak to someone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Right, and \u2013 \"May I speak to the manager, please?\"\u00a0 That's what I should be doing.\u00a0 My life is not an out-of-control restaurant.\u00a0 My life is actually under control.\u00a0 Here's an important point \u2013 not mine.\u00a0 My life has never been under my control, but it's not out of control, it's under the control of a God who is the ultimate source of love and wisdom and faithfulness and patience and grace.\u00a0 And here is a principle that comes out of 1 Peter \u2013 1 Peter talks about suffering, difficulty, disappointment \u2013 it is this \u2013 God will take you where you do not want to go in order to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I've been there an experienced that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0We all have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I mean, it's your restaurant illustration again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I'll give you one that's going on all over Western culture now \u2013 you know that the economy of the United States has radically changed from manufacturing to a service economy.\u00a0 There are many men somewhere between 35 and 50 who have lost their jobs but not just with this firm.\u00a0 That sector of industry is forever gone.\u00a0 Something they didn't have control over, and they will never get a job in that place again because those jobs don't exist.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And there is literature being written by the counselors in the culture about these class of men who are sinking into this paralytic depression because the control they thought over their lives, where they thought their story was going, was immediately interrupted by something they had no control over.\u00a0 These men think they are utterly powerless, they feel weak and unable to deal with what they are now facing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You say in your book that suffering is bad, and suffering is good.\u00a0 What do you mean by that, and how should we help our spouse embrace a right perspective of suffering?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I think the cross of Jesus is the place in the Bible to understand suffering.\u00a0 Think about this, Dennis.\u00a0 What could possibly be more horrendous than the injustice that set up the killing of the Messiah?\u00a0 There was one perfect man who ever lived \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 who didn't deserve to die.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Who didn't deserve to die.\u00a0 In a travesty of justice, He was put through one of history's most cruel deaths.\u00a0 Yet what could be more beautiful, more wonderful than, in that moment, that man taking on the sin of the world and providing eternal salvation for His children?\u00a0 What a glorious moment.\u00a0 And that's suffering.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is this truth in Scripture that God works so that the darkest moments of my life are also the moments of greatest benefit and greatest blessing.\u00a0 It's on the cross, ultimate bad and ultimate good kiss.\u00a0 It's an amazing thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, as I was working my way through your book, I couldn't help but kind of think my way through my midlife years from 35 to 55.\u00a0 They weren't all perfect years.\u00a0 Barbara nearly died during that period of time on more than one occasion because of a heart problem.\u00a0 We had health issues with our children, when one of our children lost his athletic ability because of a rare neurological disorder, challenges here in a ministry that was growing.\u00a0 Yet, as I reflect back on a couple of moments, there were moments where there was a song that was being played, and one particular time \u2013 I'll never forget this \u2013 I'd just come back from the hospital where Barbara was \u2013 where her heart had taken off and raced to over 300 beats a minute, and it had stayed that was for almost eight hours, and I put some music on and, basically, it's a song that says \"God is in control.\"\u00a0 He can be trusted as one who knows what he's doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When someone goes through a period of time in their life, and they're lost in the middle, isn't this where we go from an anchoring standpoint to trust in the fact that there's a God who does know what He's doing, and that He is tending to those matters that come our way?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I don't understand how you could have hope without that truth.\u00a0 If I'm in control of the direction and destiny of my life, and it comes crashing down, where do I go?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0But the Bible says that God's in control.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And this God who is in control is the definition of love, the definition of mercy, the definition of faithfulness, the definition of everything that's wise and true and good and worthwhile.\u00a0 So it's not just that there's somebody in control, but the person who is in control is utterly reliable and trustworthy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, when I sat in that living room listening to that song, it was a profound moment, because I sat there wondering what I was going to do with these youngsters, I think, at the time, under the age of three, and I thought, \"What am I going to do as a single parent because my wife may die?\"\u00a0 And it's at those moments when your faith is tested, and the object of your faith becomes clear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0And that means those moments are moments of what I would call \"spiritual warfare.\"\u00a0 Because as I face the crashing-down of my story, I'm either going to run away from God, or I'm going to run to Him.\u00a0 I'm going to get mad at Him, and I'm going to turn my back on Him and say, \"I trusted You, and this is what You did to me.\"\u00a0 Or I'm going to run toward Him in hope and rest, believing again that He's wise, and He's good, even though, at this moment, I don't understand why He's done what He's done.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's somebody who said the reason we need to believe in the sovereignty of God is not because it will make life make sense but because precisely life won't make sense to us, and we have to know that in all those moments where I can't figure it out, my life isn't out of control.\u00a0 It's under the control of One who is infinitely wiser than I would ever be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It's one thing, Paul, to experience that at a point in crisis where you're facing a life-and-death situation like Barbara and I did on those four different occasions with her heart.\u00a0 It's another thing when, let's say, a man or a woman enters a new season of life, and it's not anything life-threatening, it's just a recalibration for the future.\u00a0 A businessman who, all of a sudden, realizes, you know what?\u00a0 I probably have 20 to 30 good years left in my life.\u00a0 What in the world am I going to do with it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I actually think you're identifying something very important.\u00a0 I think there are ways in which the stuff is even more difficult, the struggles that we're talking about in the little moments of life, the unremarkable moments.\u00a0 If you take the steering wheel of a car, and you just turn it a couple of degrees, and you keep going there, you will actually, sooner or later, end up back where you were.\u00a0 I mean, those are profound, even though they're little, and so these struggles don't always live in these huge crisis moments.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, more regularly, they live in creeping moments of dissatisfaction, little moments of question of God \u2013 my heart being taken away by dreams of what could have been; the looking over the fence at somebody else's life and saying, \"If only that was my life.\"\u00a0 Where I am visiting God's wisdom, I've actually brought Him into the court of my judgment, and I'm judging Him as unwise.\u00a0 But it never is big.\u00a0 It doesn't hit me in that big moment.\u00a0 That's actually more dangerous than the big moments are, and probably that's where most of the listeners would tend to be \u2013 where if the little things of life, the little disappointments, the mundane things, never be a big story on radio that get me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, even as you talk about that, I think to myself, well, shouldn't we be striving for greatness?\u00a0 I mean, shouldn't it be my ambition that centuries from now someone will still remember my name and talk about that remarkable guy, Bob Lepine, who was a hero for the faith and you know what he did, and the way we talk today about Jonathan Edwards or we talk today about Amy Carmichael, or we talk about those who are our icons.\u00a0 Isn't that what I'm supposed to be doing, and yet I read the Scriptures and I'm supposed to be being faithful wherever I am.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0What we call greatness is about little moments of vision that God has blessed in ways we never thought He would bless.\u00a0 I was in Germany recently.\u00a0 I stood at the unremarkable door where Martin Luther nailed these 95 statements that caused the fires of the Reformation to burn; that changed the church of Jesus Christ where all heritage sat.\u00a0 And I thought, \"He didn't have a clue.\"\u00a0 He was a little pastor who was dissatisfied with the falsehood that was being taught, and he decided to write some statements that would be read by the people in this little village.\u00a0 He had no idea, but he was a man of vision because he believed enough, he was motivated enough, to do something in that little moment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And he was faithful to what was before him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0If you're faithful, and God chooses to make that the Reformation, that's God's business.\u00a0 When we stand before God, it's now how big did your thing turn out to be, it's were you faithful?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Think about the character of a life.\u00a0 The character of a person's life is not set in five big moments.\u00a0 It's actually set in 100,000 little moments.\u00a0 You know, one of the most exciting moments I had in talking to one of my sons where he shared with me a spiritual struggle was the result of my being willing at 10:30 at night to pick him up from the train station, not give into temptation to say, \"Just walk, it's not that far,\" be willing to do something as mundane as provide transportation.\u00a0 In that moment, he took me back five years ago, talked about a conversation we had and how that conversation had begun to get him to think and change the direction of his life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, what was I doing?\u00a0 I was picking my boy up from the train station \u2013 a very little moment with profound, long-term spiritual effect.\u00a0 Sitting at the side of the bed at night talking to your child; deciding you'll just take your wife out for ice cream and, who knows?\u00a0 I mean, all of those little moments that you're willing to do good things in because you know that our God, He's in the small moments of you life.\u00a0 He's in the most unremarkable moments of everyday life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The Bible is more full of unremarkable moments than those remarkable moments.\u00a0 It's full of remarkable moments, but it's much more a chronicle of everyday moments of life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And yet, you know, it's interesting, Paul, we all want to stand on the 50-yard line surrounded by 100,000 cheering fans making that decision.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And I've thought about this many times \u2013 the mothers who are making the choices day in and day out on behalf of the next generation; the little, small moments of discipline, of staying faithful to the task; or of a father who decides to read to his child to build a relationship so he can have a relationship at the point they go through the adolescent years.\u00a0 There are no cheers.\u00a0 The kid doesn't get up out of his bed, all the kids gather around the father and give him a standing ovation and say, \"Man, that was awesome, Dad.\u00a0 That was a small moment that really mattered.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0No.\u00a0 But God sees, and God knows, and you have been a great reminder this week to all of us to not get lost in the middle but stay faithful whether it be the beginning of the middle, the middle of the middle or, as some of us are, Bob \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Beyond the middle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Over the hill of the middle.\u00a0 Thanks for being on the broadcast, Paul.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Oh, it's been my pleasure, thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, I was thinking about that metaphor of being lost, and a synonym for being lost is being off course, and that's really what we've been talking about this week \u2013 it's being off course in the middle of life.\u00a0 When you're back on course, and you're understanding what God is up to, and you're in the Word, and you're walking with Him, you're not lost.\u00a0 That's when you make it through the middle years strong, and that's where you keep pointing us in the book that you've written on this subject, which is called \"Lost in the Middle.\"\u00a0 We have it in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 If any of our listeners are interested in getting a copy, let me commend it to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 In the middle of the screen, there's a red button that says \"Go,\" and if you click on that button, it will take you right to the page where you'll find more information about this book, \"Lost in the Middle.\"\u00a0 We also have information about other resources available here at FamilyLife including John Piper's book, \"Don't Waste Your Life,\" which is a great book to read no matter what stage of life you're in; whether you're in college or paying for college or going back for the 50-year college reunion, John Piper points us in the same direction you're pointing us to, Paul, which is back toward Christ and His plan and His agenda.\u00a0 He's the one who numbers our years, and He has a purpose for us in the middle of life just as He does at every stage of our life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, our website is FamilyLife.com, and if you click that red \"Go\" button in the middle of the screen, you'll find more information about these and other resources available here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 If you are interested in both Paul's book and John Piper's book, we'll send along at no additional cost the two-CD audio of our conversation this week with Paul David Tripp.\u00a0 You can also request these resources by calling 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and someone on our team will make sure to get these sent out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One of the great things about a conversation like the one we've been having this week is that it gives all of us an opportunity to be mentored by someone who has done some critical thinking biblically on a subject and helps us benefit from that person's study, from their experience, from their understanding of what God is up to in the middle of something, and I was thinking about the CD we have, Dennis, where your wife Barbara shares with women what a wife can do to help her husband be the man that God wants him to be.\u00a0 I know women who have heard her give that message have really benefited from her thinking on this subject, and we want to make the CD available this month to listeners who can help us with a donation of any amount to the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We are listener-supported, so your donations are what keep us on the air not only in this city but in cities all across the country.\u00a0 They keep our website up and running.\u00a0 You folks are the folks who make FamilyLife Today possible, and we wanted to ask you to consider making a donation to the ministry of FamilyLife Today this month, and you are able to do that, we would be happy to send you this CD from Barbara Rainey as our way of saying thank you for your support of the ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can make a donation online at FamilyLife.com, and when you do simply type the two letters \"CD\" into the keycode box, and that way we'll know that you want this CD from Barbara Rainey, or call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 You can make a donation over the phone and just mention when you do that you'd like the Barbara Rainey CD and, again, we're happy to send it out to you, and we appreciate your financial support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend, and I hope you can join us on Monday when we're going to begin a week-long conversation with our friend Nancy Leigh DeMoss about some of the lies that are popular in the culture today and that women are tempted to believe.\u00a0 And we're also going to talk about the truth that will set them free.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t______________________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to 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Paul David Tripp talks about how you can find hope regardless of the circumstances of your life.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-10-13.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Do you ever feel like you just can't keep up with everything that is going on in life?\u00a0 It's gotten out of control?\u00a0 Here's Paul David Tripp.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0My life has never been under my control, but it's not out of control.\u00a0 It's under the control of a God who is the ultimate source of love and wisdom and faithfulness and patience and grace.\u00a0 God will take you where you do not want to go in order to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, October 13th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 So if life has seemed out of control for you, have you ever asked the question \u2013 what is God up to?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 Do you think what we've been talking about this week, as we've talked about midlife and the challenges that are there \u2013 do you think this is real for most people or do you think it's just one of those things that some folks struggle through?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, I think our cultural has done a good job of creating a category called \"midlife crisis.\"\u00a0 It's almost like adolescence.\u00a0 Even though I didn't experience it, and I remember when I turned 40, I kept thinking, \"When am I going to experience the urge to buy a gold chain?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Mm-hm, motorcycle, something like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, a red convertible.\u00a0 You know, when am I going to break out and go do all that?\u00a0 And it never happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'm not sure why, but I'm going to tell you, the e-mails from our listeners, they sure spell it out, and it's interesting \u2013 listen to this theme.\u00a0 Here is a listener who said, \"I am in the middle of a midlife crisis with my husband.\u00a0 I don't want to split but can't fix what he's feeling, which is a lost hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Here is another one that says, \"My husband was soon going through a midlife crisis, ended up divorcing me, leaving our family completely without much support.\u00a0 It's now been three and a half years since our divorce, but God's been standing with me, and I'm still hoping for my marriage to be restored.\u00a0 In the meantime, I don't hear a lot about midlife crisis and the effects it can have on a family.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We really do have a huge number of people who are lost in the middle.\u00a0 They are wandering through life and sometime between their 35th birthday and their 55th, they're going to go through an extended period of time that's going to cause them to question their lives, question their mission, their purpose, why they're here, what they have accomplished.\u00a0 They're going to look back with some regrets and wonder what the hope is for the future.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We've been exploring this theme this week with our guest, Paul Tripp, who has written a book called \"Lost in the Middle.\"\u00a0 Paul, welcome back to FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Thanks, it's good to be with you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We've talked about shattered dreams or about regrets or disappointments.\u00a0 When somebody's experiencing those things, will they actually trade in their marriage or their family to try to find something new?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0The issue with disappointment or regret is not that I experience disappointment or regret.\u00a0 You can't possibly live in a fallen world and not experience disappointment or regret.\u00a0 It's what I do with that when I experience it.\u00a0 And maybe it would be worth just going through some of the danger signs for people \u2013 how to recognize that more destructive dissatisfaction, and I think these can be helpful to give people hooks to sort of hang their experience on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One is just a cynicism for life \u2013 \"I've just become one of those dark-side, negative people and negative about life because I don't like my life.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And at that point, people have probably disappointed you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And so you lose your hope in people being the delivery system of making me happy.\u00a0 Instead, they're making me sad or maybe even angry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Yeah, that's right.\u00a0 The second would be the withholding of worship and service.\u00a0 I'm not so excited about singing those hymns and don't look forward to Sunday.\u00a0 There's a world there that seems distant from the world that I'm living in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Third, would be growing anger.\u00a0 That can range from low-grade irritability to blow-up kinds of things.\u00a0 Craving for power and control \u2013 I'm mad at how my life has gone, so I'm going to change it, I'm going to take charge of my life.\u00a0 Theological doubts \u2013 I've talked to so many people who have said to me, \"I never thought I would doubt God in the way I've doubted God.\u00a0 I thought I had settled my theology years ago,\" but they hit things, they question God's goodness and His faithfulness.\u00a0 Impatience with the circumstances because I'm disappointed in my story, I am less willing to wait to let things work out.\u00a0 I get made quickly at difficulty.\u00a0 I let go of godly habits.\u00a0 I don't want to read and pray in the morning.\u00a0 I don't want to go to my small group.\u00a0 I'm not interested in a short-term missionary trip.\u00a0 I begin to question God's wisdom.\u00a0 I wonder if God's as wise as He says He is.\u00a0 I now have a real weakened witness to the world.\u00a0 I'm not interested in sharing people about Christ because I'm upset with Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then the thing that we hear most about is this attraction to the world.\u00a0 It's that spiritual things have disappointed me, God has disappointed me, so I'm attracted to physical things hoping they will fulfill me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0The car, the other woman, the gold chain, whatever it is.\u00a0 So somebody pops into your office, and they say, \"This is how I'm feeling, this is what I'm going through.\u00a0 I'm 42 years old, I'm not happy with the way life's turned out.\u00a0 I don't want to get up in the morning, I'm angry, I'm depressed, all of these things.\u00a0 They describe that to you.\u00a0 Where do you send them?\u00a0 What do you tell them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, actually, Paul, in his book, tells a great story about what happened when he took his family out to eat.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Oh, you experienced kind of \u2013 in a one evening \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 in a restaurant \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 all of those emotions, didn't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0It's the two-hour wait, finally get into the restaurant, order the meal, wait forever to even get the order \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, your waiter disappeared.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Yeah, that's right.\u00a0 We couldn't find him.\u00a0 And then when we finally get the order, it's the wrong food.\u00a0 The manager comes and makes an apology.\u00a0 I mean, it's just one of those evenings that starts bad and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 ends worse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Ends worse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0But the key was you asked to speak to someone.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Right, and \u2013 \"May I speak to the manager, please?\"\u00a0 That's what I should be doing.\u00a0 My life is not an out-of-control restaurant.\u00a0 My life is actually under control.\u00a0 Here's an important point \u2013 not mine.\u00a0 My life has never been under my control, but it's not out of control, it's under the control of a God who is the ultimate source of love and wisdom and faithfulness and patience and grace.\u00a0 And here is a principle that comes out of 1 Peter \u2013 1 Peter talks about suffering, difficulty, disappointment \u2013 it is this \u2013 God will take you where you do not want to go in order to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I've been there an experienced that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0We all have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I mean, it's your restaurant illustration again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I'll give you one that's going on all over Western culture now \u2013 you know that the economy of the United States has radically changed from manufacturing to a service economy.\u00a0 There are many men somewhere between 35 and 50 who have lost their jobs but not just with this firm.\u00a0 That sector of industry is forever gone.\u00a0 Something they didn't have control over, and they will never get a job in that place again because those jobs don't exist.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And there is literature being written by the counselors in the culture about these class of men who are sinking into this paralytic depression because the control they thought over their lives, where they thought their story was going, was immediately interrupted by something they had no control over.\u00a0 These men think they are utterly powerless, they feel weak and unable to deal with what they are now facing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You say in your book that suffering is bad, and suffering is good.\u00a0 What do you mean by that, and how should we help our spouse embrace a right perspective of suffering?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I think the cross of Jesus is the place in the Bible to understand suffering.\u00a0 Think about this, Dennis.\u00a0 What could possibly be more horrendous than the injustice that set up the killing of the Messiah?\u00a0 There was one perfect man who ever lived \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 who didn't deserve to die.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Who didn't deserve to die.\u00a0 In a travesty of justice, He was put through one of history's most cruel deaths.\u00a0 Yet what could be more beautiful, more wonderful than, in that moment, that man taking on the sin of the world and providing eternal salvation for His children?\u00a0 What a glorious moment.\u00a0 And that's suffering.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is this truth in Scripture that God works so that the darkest moments of my life are also the moments of greatest benefit and greatest blessing.\u00a0 It's on the cross, ultimate bad and ultimate good kiss.\u00a0 It's an amazing thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, as I was working my way through your book, I couldn't help but kind of think my way through my midlife years from 35 to 55.\u00a0 They weren't all perfect years.\u00a0 Barbara nearly died during that period of time on more than one occasion because of a heart problem.\u00a0 We had health issues with our children, when one of our children lost his athletic ability because of a rare neurological disorder, challenges here in a ministry that was growing.\u00a0 Yet, as I reflect back on a couple of moments, there were moments where there was a song that was being played, and one particular time \u2013 I'll never forget this \u2013 I'd just come back from the hospital where Barbara was \u2013 where her heart had taken off and raced to over 300 beats a minute, and it had stayed that was for almost eight hours, and I put some music on and, basically, it's a song that says \"God is in control.\"\u00a0 He can be trusted as one who knows what he's doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When someone goes through a period of time in their life, and they're lost in the middle, isn't this where we go from an anchoring standpoint to trust in the fact that there's a God who does know what He's doing, and that He is tending to those matters that come our way?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I don't understand how you could have hope without that truth.\u00a0 If I'm in control of the direction and destiny of my life, and it comes crashing down, where do I go?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0But the Bible says that God's in control.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And this God who is in control is the definition of love, the definition of mercy, the definition of faithfulness, the definition of everything that's wise and true and good and worthwhile.\u00a0 So it's not just that there's somebody in control, but the person who is in control is utterly reliable and trustworthy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[song \"God is in Control\"]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, when I sat in that living room listening to that song, it was a profound moment, because I sat there wondering what I was going to do with these youngsters, I think, at the time, under the age of three, and I thought, \"What am I going to do as a single parent because my wife may die?\"\u00a0 And it's at those moments when your faith is tested, and the object of your faith becomes clear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0And that means those moments are moments of what I would call \"spiritual warfare.\"\u00a0 Because as I face the crashing-down of my story, I'm either going to run away from God, or I'm going to run to Him.\u00a0 I'm going to get mad at Him, and I'm going to turn my back on Him and say, \"I trusted You, and this is what You did to me.\"\u00a0 Or I'm going to run toward Him in hope and rest, believing again that He's wise, and He's good, even though, at this moment, I don't understand why He's done what He's done.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There's somebody who said the reason we need to believe in the sovereignty of God is not because it will make life make sense but because precisely life won't make sense to us, and we have to know that in all those moments where I can't figure it out, my life isn't out of control.\u00a0 It's under the control of One who is infinitely wiser than I would ever be.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It's one thing, Paul, to experience that at a point in crisis where you're facing a life-and-death situation like Barbara and I did on those four different occasions with her heart.\u00a0 It's another thing when, let's say, a man or a woman enters a new season of life, and it's not anything life-threatening, it's just a recalibration for the future.\u00a0 A businessman who, all of a sudden, realizes, you know what?\u00a0 I probably have 20 to 30 good years left in my life.\u00a0 What in the world am I going to do with it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0I actually think you're identifying something very important.\u00a0 I think there are ways in which the stuff is even more difficult, the struggles that we're talking about in the little moments of life, the unremarkable moments.\u00a0 If you take the steering wheel of a car, and you just turn it a couple of degrees, and you keep going there, you will actually, sooner or later, end up back where you were.\u00a0 I mean, those are profound, even though they're little, and so these struggles don't always live in these huge crisis moments.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, more regularly, they live in creeping moments of dissatisfaction, little moments of question of God \u2013 my heart being taken away by dreams of what could have been; the looking over the fence at somebody else's life and saying, \"If only that was my life.\"\u00a0 Where I am visiting God's wisdom, I've actually brought Him into the court of my judgment, and I'm judging Him as unwise.\u00a0 But it never is big.\u00a0 It doesn't hit me in that big moment.\u00a0 That's actually more dangerous than the big moments are, and probably that's where most of the listeners would tend to be \u2013 where if the little things of life, the little disappointments, the mundane things, never be a big story on radio that get me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, even as you talk about that, I think to myself, well, shouldn't we be striving for greatness?\u00a0 I mean, shouldn't it be my ambition that centuries from now someone will still remember my name and talk about that remarkable guy, Bob Lepine, who was a hero for the faith and you know what he did, and the way we talk today about Jonathan Edwards or we talk today about Amy Carmichael, or we talk about those who are our icons.\u00a0 Isn't that what I'm supposed to be doing, and yet I read the Scriptures and I'm supposed to be being faithful wherever I am.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0What we call greatness is about little moments of vision that God has blessed in ways we never thought He would bless.\u00a0 I was in Germany recently.\u00a0 I stood at the unremarkable door where Martin Luther nailed these 95 statements that caused the fires of the Reformation to burn; that changed the church of Jesus Christ where all heritage sat.\u00a0 And I thought, \"He didn't have a clue.\"\u00a0 He was a little pastor who was dissatisfied with the falsehood that was being taught, and he decided to write some statements that would be read by the people in this little village.\u00a0 He had no idea, but he was a man of vision because he believed enough, he was motivated enough, to do something in that little moment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And he was faithful to what was before him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0If you're faithful, and God chooses to make that the Reformation, that's God's business.\u00a0 When we stand before God, it's now how big did your thing turn out to be, it's were you faithful?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Think about the character of a life.\u00a0 The character of a person's life is not set in five big moments.\u00a0 It's actually set in 100,000 little moments.\u00a0 You know, one of the most exciting moments I had in talking to one of my sons where he shared with me a spiritual struggle was the result of my being willing at 10:30 at night to pick him up from the train station, not give into temptation to say, \"Just walk, it's not that far,\" be willing to do something as mundane as provide transportation.\u00a0 In that moment, he took me back five years ago, talked about a conversation we had and how that conversation had begun to get him to think and change the direction of his life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, what was I doing?\u00a0 I was picking my boy up from the train station \u2013 a very little moment with profound, long-term spiritual effect.\u00a0 Sitting at the side of the bed at night talking to your child; deciding you'll just take your wife out for ice cream and, who knows?\u00a0 I mean, all of those little moments that you're willing to do good things in because you know that our God, He's in the small moments of you life.\u00a0 He's in the most unremarkable moments of everyday life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The Bible is more full of unremarkable moments than those remarkable moments.\u00a0 It's full of remarkable moments, but it's much more a chronicle of everyday moments of life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And yet, you know, it's interesting, Paul, we all want to stand on the 50-yard line surrounded by 100,000 cheering fans making that decision.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And I've thought about this many times \u2013 the mothers who are making the choices day in and day out on behalf of the next generation; the little, small moments of discipline, of staying faithful to the task; or of a father who decides to read to his child to build a relationship so he can have a relationship at the point they go through the adolescent years.\u00a0 There are no cheers.\u00a0 The kid doesn't get up out of his bed, all the kids gather around the father and give him a standing ovation and say, \"Man, that was awesome, Dad.\u00a0 That was a small moment that really mattered.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0No.\u00a0 But God sees, and God knows, and you have been a great reminder this week to all of us to not get lost in the middle but stay faithful whether it be the beginning of the middle, the middle of the middle or, as some of us are, Bob \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Beyond the middle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Over the hill of the middle.\u00a0 Thanks for being on the broadcast, Paul.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPaul:\u00a0Oh, it's been my pleasure, thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You know, I was thinking about that metaphor of being lost, and a synonym for being lost is being off course, and that's really what we've been talking about this week \u2013 it's being off course in the middle of life.\u00a0 When you're back on course, and you're understanding what God is up to, and you're in the Word, and you're walking with Him, you're not lost.\u00a0 That's when you make it through the middle years strong, and that's where you keep pointing us in the book that you've written on this subject, which is called \"Lost in the Middle.\"\u00a0 We have it in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 If any of our listeners are interested in getting a copy, let me commend it to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 In the middle of the screen, there's a red button that says \"Go,\" and if you click on that button, it will take you right to the page where you'll find more information about this book, \"Lost in the Middle.\"\u00a0 We also have information about other resources available here at FamilyLife including John Piper's book, \"Don't Waste Your Life,\" which is a great book to read no matter what stage of life you're in; whether you're in college or paying for college or going back for the 50-year college reunion, John Piper points us in the same direction you're pointing us to, Paul, which is back toward Christ and His plan and His agenda.\u00a0 He's the one who numbers our years, and He has a purpose for us in the middle of life just as He does at every stage of our life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, our website is FamilyLife.com, and if you click that red \"Go\" button in the middle of the screen, you'll find more information about these and other resources available here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 If you are interested in both Paul's book and John Piper's book, we'll send along at no additional cost the two-CD audio of our conversation this week with Paul David Tripp.\u00a0 You can also request these resources by calling 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and someone on our team will make sure to get these sent out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One of the great things about a conversation like the one we've been having this week is that it gives all of us an opportunity to be mentored by someone who has done some critical thinking biblically on a subject and helps us benefit from that person's study, from their experience, from their understanding of what God is up to in the middle of something, and I was thinking about the CD we have, Dennis, where your wife Barbara shares with women what a wife can do to help her husband be the man that God wants him to be.\u00a0 I know women who have heard her give that message have really benefited from her thinking on this subject, and we want to make the CD available this month to listeners who can help us with a donation of any amount to the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We are listener-supported, so your donations are what keep us on the air not only in this city but in cities all across the country.\u00a0 They keep our website up and running.\u00a0 You folks are the folks who make FamilyLife Today possible, and we wanted to ask you to consider making a donation to the ministry of FamilyLife Today this month, and you are able to do that, we would be happy to send you this CD from Barbara Rainey as our way of saying thank you for your support of the ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You can make a donation online at FamilyLife.com, and when you do simply type the two letters \"CD\" into the keycode box, and that way we'll know that you want this CD from Barbara Rainey, or call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 You can make a donation over the phone and just mention when you do that you'd like the Barbara Rainey CD and, again, we're happy to send it out to you, and we appreciate your financial support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend, and I hope you can join us on Monday when we're going to begin a week-long conversation with our friend Nancy Leigh DeMoss about some of the lies that are popular in the culture today and that women are tempted to believe.\u00a0 And we're also going to talk about the truth that will set them free.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank 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