Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, November 26th.

Running from difficulty isn't always an option.

Today, learn healthier ways to respond to the challenges that inevitably come your way.

Adversity is not really a choice.

If it were, we don't say, no thank you.'d just take it some other ways. It's not a choice,

but it is a reality because we live in a fallen world. And because there is sin and disobedience

and wickedness, wherever you turn, there's going to be adversity. So we've all been there.

We've all experienced adversity in one way or the other, and we would all like to avoid it,

if it all possible.

But it's not possible to avoid it because we said we live in a fallen world.

Now, if you avoid all possibilities of adversity, you may miss some of the best

things in life. So we would have to say that all adversity is not bad. It depends upon how we respond

to it. So whatever you are going through today, wherever you are in some realm of adversity

in your family, among your children, financially, at your job, whatever it might be, whatever it may be,

it could be that it is a part of one of God's greatest blessings in your life.

So it depends upon how we respond to it.

So I want you to turn to second Corinthians a chapter I want to keep turning to in the 12th chapter

because it's such a perfect example of the Apostle Paul,

and you think about all the adversities he went through, which he lists them in

chapter 11, and in spite of his prayers and asking God to take away all of this, listen to what he

says about himself in verse 7 of chapter 12. Because of, that is, look at it, because of the surpassing

greatness of the revelations for this reason

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