Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, October 3rd.

Today's podcast focuses on Proverbs Chapter 3 to help us understand and apply God's guide to a fruitful life.

When I think about the pathway that is fruitful and fulfilling and contenting, and a pathway that will one day lead us to stand before

the Lord Jesus Christ and amidst our failures and amidst our faults and amidst all of our

difficulties in life, he will be able to say to us, well done, good and faithful servants,

you've been faithful over a few things. I will give you a position

that deals with many. And so we talk about a life of fulfillment and contentment and one that is

fruitful and not wasted. Here in one passage of scripture, it's all there. So I want you to turn,

if you will, to Proverbs chapter 3. He begins by saying,

My son, do not forget my teaching. Why would he say, do not forget it? And so often he

warns us about forgetfulness, because God knows how prone we are to forget. You can't afford

to forget it. Listen to what he says, Do not forget my teaching, but let your heart

keep my commandments. And when I think about what he's saying here, he's saying not only don't forget it,

he says, but let your heart keep my commandments. That is, keeping his commandments means to obey them.

He's not referring simply to the ten commandments,

but he's referring to all the principles of scripture. All right, look for what he says, beginning now

in verse five. And this is the core of this passage, and we'll come back to it later. But listen,

trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him. And he says, he will do

what? He will direct your path. Trust in the Lord. Relie upon him. And I think if there's one thing I

have seen God do in my own life, I've seen him take me and put me in places that I could never have

gotten to, didn't even know I was supposed to be

there, number one. And in spite of all the obstacles and all the hardships and all the difficulties,

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