Paul Tripp relates an incident involving mobile phone lost on the wrong side of a border that evoked an all-too-familiar reaction and the familiar feeling that those of us who counsel others about the security of resting in the sovereignty of God get when we find that we don’t want to accept our own advice.
Telling this story really is quite embarrassing. It’s not that hard these days to replace a phone, or to at least temporarily use another device to provide me with the information I need. The phone is more of a convenience and preference for me.
But more importantly, it’s embarrassing because I teach and write all the time about the security and rest that can be found in the sovereignty of God. I tell people all the time that God will take them where they don’t want to go in order to produce in them what they couldn’t achieve on their own. I teach again and again that God is much more committed to our holiness than he is to delivering our personal definition of happiness.
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