The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “The Faith to Follow.” Dr. Charles Stanley: It’s an act of God’s grace that He has chosen a plan for your life and mine. Wonderful grace of God that He has chosen a plan and is willing to show us what that plan is.
So we don’t have to go through life wondering “Is my life going to count? What am I doing with myself? What do others think?” and all of that. God, in His awesome grace, has a plan and a purpose for your life, and therefore, He has a pathway for you to walk, because if He has a plan, there’s a path. Most people are going to live out their life never even thinking the fact that God has a will for them or a plan for them, and they’ll live it all out and come maybe toward the end of their life or maybe a few years before that and look back
and think, “What was all that about? What did I miss? Where was God in all of this?” And I can tell you, God knew from the very beginning His plan and purpose and will for your life. The sooner you discover what that pathway is, you get on His path, then the sooner and the better and the happier and the most peaceful and the more prosperous you’re going to be in your life, no matter what’s going on.
But you have to believe that. You have to believe that God loves you enough to have a plan, He loves you enough to get you into the plan, He has a pathway that’s the best path. God doesn’t have any second-rate paths. He has the best path for you, if you’re willing to follow it. One of the most familiar verses in the Bible or passages is in Proverbs chapter 3, and I want us to read these first 8 verses and verse 5, 6, and 8.
We’ll deal with those primarily, but look, if you will, beginning in verse 1 of Proverbs chapter 3. He says, “My son, do not forget my teaching.” What a wonderful way to begin. “But let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.” So how you live makes a difference.
“Do not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man.” And now listen to this. You should memorize this. Watch. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will,” do what? “He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.” Now, here’s God’s command to us. It’s one thing for Him to guide me, to be willing to guide me, it’s one thing for me to listen, but am I willing, am I willing and truly, truly willing to follow that? That is, am I willing to trust Him? Watch this.
