Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 17th. Do you have a desire to know God?

If so, you'll be encouraged to set aside distractions and common hindrances so you can develop a keen awareness of the Lord's presence.

Let's listen to today's podcast. True wealth is more than an abundance of things.

And there are a lot of people who think that they are wealthy because they have property and gold and

silver and all kinds of physical things. And in their minds, they're very, very wealthy. But is that

what real true wealth is all about?

Think about it.

You can be very wealthy in material things all day and lose it before the night's there.

But the simple reason, that's not really true genuine wealth.

Because true genuine wealth is beyond all that. In fact, think about it this way.

If you can touch it, you can weigh it, if you can see it, and somehow you can count it, you can

lose it. But true, genuine wealth is spiritual, and you can't lose it.

And so many people give so many years of their life to accumulating and accumulating

and accumulating and oftentimes, right before they start enjoying it, they're gone.

And sometimes, right before they begin to enjoy it, they lose it.

What do you have if all you have is an accumulation of material things that you've gathered over the years?

Is that God's purpose for your life?

When you work for years and years and years and years and years and years and you lose it or

you're no longer able to enjoy it and you look back over those years and think, what a waste.

Well, it doesn't have to be that way.

And if you get your thinking right and you begin to look at it from God's perspective,

then everything begins to change.

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