What's Wearing You Down Is Building You Up - May 17, 2026

MAY 17, 202638 MIN
REZ CHURCH Podcast

What's Wearing You Down Is Building You Up - May 17, 2026

MAY 17, 202638 MIN

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<p>You&#39;re in the middle of something hard. Maybe it&#39;s been going on long enough that you&#39;ve stopped looking for a reason and started just trying to survive it. The exhaustion is real. The weight of it is real. And somewhere underneath all of it is a quiet question you haven&#39;t been able to shake, is any of this actually worth it. It is. And not in a vague, things happen for a reason kind of way. In a specific, this is doing something in you that nothing else could kind of way.</p><p><br></p><p>(0:00) No mulligan on a one service Sunday(1:30) Walking out of the boss&#39;s office with a teacher improvement plan(3:00) Something doesn&#39;t have to make sense to be true(4:30) The one string you actually control(6:00) Trouble finds you, you don&#39;t find it(7:45) Paul and Silas singing in stocks at midnight(9:30) Edison watching his factory burn(11:00) Choose the attitude before you feel it(12:30) Keep knowing, not just knowing once(14:00) Not all things are good but all things work(15:45) The summer he worked his tail off(17:30) What the refining fire is actually doing(19:00) When the metalsmith sees his reflection(20:45) Light and momentary, why Paul could say that(22:30) The bonsai tree versus the white oak(24:15) Ships that bounced cannonballs off their hull(26:00) The image that got defaced but not erased(27:45) We know that when he appears we will be like him(29:30) God gives us more than we can handle so we handle it with him(31:00) What do you want me to learn from this</p>