Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 8th.

It's natural to highlight your own strengths.

But that wasn't the case with the Apostle Paul.

He boasted of his weakness.

Stay with us to see how that attitude is key to usefulness for all followers of Christ.

Feelings of inadequacy are rather uncomfortable feelings and oftentimes very painful.

And all of us have felt inadequate at some time or the other. And in fact, they'll probably

never come a time in your life when you won't feel inadequate about something. Maybe here,

maybe there, maybe not very often.

But the tragedy is that so many people live their entire lives feeling inadequate.

They go through life with that feeling.

It's like a cloud hanging over them.

And about the time they think they have it just about finished

and everything is under control and they feel adequate, something comes

along to remind them that, after all, they're not all that adequate at all. So when I think

about all the different ways and different things that cause people to feel inadequate, I think,

for example, serving the Lord is certainly one of them. And if somebody asked me, if I felt adequate to do what I do, I would have to say, no, I do not.

Because God never intends for us to feel like we got it together.

And so oftentimes people feel inadequate.

When there are reasons to feel that way, sometimes when there's not a reason. Then I think people just feel inadequate about being parents.

When the truth is that many of those parents are very adequate because they know the key to

adequacy, they are adequate to raise their children.

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