Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, March 4th. It's natural to rely on

yourself, but believers thrive most when our faith is in God alone. Here's part two of God's guide to

life at its best. If you'll turn to Proverbs chapter 3 in the title of this message, God's guide to life at its best.

Here's the passage of scripture, two verses that all of us probably know by heart.

And somehow we've never connected all the rest of those verses to these first two.

We can read all of this chapter, but I want us to begin in verse 5 and read through verse 12.

The writer of Proverbs says, trust in the Lord with all your heart.

And do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge him, and he will make your path straight.

Now most people stop right there.

But listen to what he says. Do not be wise in your path straight. Now most people stop right there. But listen to what he says.

Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your

body and refreshment to your bones. Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first of all your

produce. So your barns will be filled with plenty

and your vats will overflow with new wine. My son do not reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe

his reproof for whom the Lord loves he reproves even as a father the son in whom he delights. Now listen, you can wrap up the whole

Christian life in these passages. Here is a compass for your life. It doesn't make a difference

who you are, what you do, where you do it, how many, how often, what your position. It doesn't make any

difference. Here is a very concise, infallible, dependable, reliable, trustworthy compass for all of life.

Now remember that a compass has four primary directions, northeast, south, and west. And so there are four

particular points that I want to point out in this passage of scripture. And the first one is this,

and I hope you'll be wise enough to write them down. The first one is this. And I'm referring to

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