Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 30th.

Many people approach God with a What Can You Do for Me mentality.

Today's podcast concludes the series on spiritual maturity by helping believers shift

our focus from what we can get to what we can give.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is for a person to live their whole life

with no purpose, no sense of direction, no goals, they just floating through life.

Just sort of managing to live from one day to the next or maybe from one week

to the next maybe from one paycheck to the next accomplishing nothing really, except just existing and making enough

money maybe to just get by, or maybe end up on the street corners as we see

sometimes people have there begging for money.

I look at them wondering what happened?

What happened back in their life that caused them to lose all hope, all sense of purpose, no real sense of direction in life.

It's like going on a long journey and you have no GPS, no sense of direction.

You don't have any destination.

You're just sort of going, just sort of wobbling in life.

What a tragedy.

And I can tell you no matter who you are that is not the will and the plan of God for your life.

It's very clear in the scripture that he has a plan and a will for everyone's life.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have given talents, ability, skills.

He would not have given spiritual gifts to believers if there were no purpose whatsoever. So if I should ask you what you're living for, what would you say?

Would it be something to do with your family, your job, or some particular interest or hobby that you have?

What are you living for?

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