Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 21st. Do you wonder how God chooses the people he uses? He seeks those who will listen and obey. Stay with us as we explore the purpose for brokenness.

Brokenness is God's way of dealing with the self-life. That is that independence within us,

which God must deal with in order for us to become the person that God wants us to be.

And by brokenness, we simply mean not that a person could lose their zest for living,

but that rather every area of that

person's life would be brought into submission to the will and purposes of God. Because it is

his plan that you and I would be controlled not by a flesh, not by our five senses of the body,

not by our own stubborn, independent will, but rather by the

presence of the Holy Spirit within us.

And so God has so arranged our life that this outer man with which we relate to our

environment and the inner man, our soul, our mind, will emotion, conscience, and consciousness

may be brought into submission

to the spirit who lives within us in order that our life would be an expression of the

indwelling presence of Jesus Christ. That is God's ultimate design for all of us. Now, this is the

second in our series of messages on brokenness,

the weight of blessing. The first one, brokenness the principle today, brokenness, the purpose.

Why is it that God breaks us? Why is it that God shatters and chisels and sands and prunes away our life until finally we are brought

into submission to him. Why is it that God keeps on doing that when we are so rebellious sometimes

and so independent in our spirit? And if you'll turn to Exodus chapter 2, I want us to read

one simple passage from which we will depart

and our message on brokenness, the purpose. And you'll recall that Moses has grown up now from that little boy who was found in the Nile River.

And verse 11 of chapter two says, now it came about in those days when Moses

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