Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, January 24th.

Are you unsure where to go or what to do in the months ahead?

As you navigate this new year, be sure to rely on the only trustworthy compass for life's journey.

I have in my hand a compass, and I have headed for 25 years.

It has never failed me. It's always pointed north.

Always pointed to the North Pole.

So I can always tell by looking at this which direction I'm headed in. Now, if I put it in my pocket

and I don't look at it, it doesn't do me any good. But if I will take it out and look at it,

I will always know which direction I'm headed in. And I have been in some places, a few times without it.

I wish I'd had it because I needed it. And on one occasion, when I was with a guide, I told him I thought

we were heading in the wrong direction. He said, oh no, I've traveled this path many times,

and I know it's not the wrong direction. I pulled up my compass and I said, oh, no, I've traveled this path many times, and I know it's not the wrong direction.

I pull out my compass, and I said, well, sir, either I have got to believe you, or I've got to believe my compass.

And I'm going to believe my compass, because it never fails.

Well, finally, he admitted that we were right, and so we finally got where we

were going. And so when I think about this, it points in eight different directions. There's

north and northeast and east, and then there's southeast and south. Then there's southwest and west,

and then there's northwest.

So there are eight different directions that's going to point me in.

And just to know that I can trust it all the time is a great sense of security.

And what I want to do in this message is this.

And I want to talk about a compass the life's journey.

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