Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, September 25th.

If you are trying to escape your problems, today's podcast helps you change your perspective and begin to look for God's purpose in them.

The series on The Ways of God continues.

Well this is the series on the Ways of God and we've been talking about his ways what motivates him

why does he do what he does what does he act the way he acts why does he respond the way he

responds is what what motiv him? And so in this message today, something all of us have

to deal with in our life. All of us have to deal with suffering of some kind,

whether it's emotional or whether it's physical,

mental or whatever it might be.

And so when we think about the ways of God,

today the title of this message is simply this, the ways of God. Today the title of this message is simply this, the ways of God, he uses our

suffering. It's one of his ways and what I want us to understand is I want us to

understand why God allows us to suffer, the length of time

he does oftentimes, or that's a short period of time, what is he up to? What's he thinking?

So I certainly hope you'll be wise enough to write these

down. There are quite a number of them. The reasons God allows us to suffer. And the first one

I want to mention is this, and that is the manifest Christ life and character in us.

That is to reveal his character within us.

So think about what a Christian is.

A Christian is a person who has received Jesus Christ is their personal savior

and one in whom and through whom Jesus Christ is living his life,

so that the greatest testimony to a lost person is a believer

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