Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 16th.

Ephesians Chapter 4 reminds us that God is over all, through all, and in all.

Today, you'll learn to appreciate God's awesome attributes and relate to him as friend.

In a recent copy of the National Geographic, on the front cover of two photos, one of them is of Jupiter,

the planet, and then Europa, which is one of the sixth closest moons to this planet.

And under that, it asked this question, is there anybody out there? And I thought to myself,

well, I can answer that. Is there anybody out there? And the question is, is there life beyond Earth?

Well, many people have been asking that question and trying to figure out how all this got started.

And so it's interesting when the finest scientists in the world come to the whole issue of the beginning of all of this,

at some point there they have to stop and say whether it is something else nobody can identify

what there's something else is because beyond beyond all the creation we know you would have to

believe that out of nothing came something no that, that's not the way it is.

This is the way it is. If you read the first verse of the first chapter of the first book in the Bible,

you'll find out that God created all of this, all of it.

So the issue is, who is this God that's created all this, and what kind of relationship

are we supposed to have with Him? And why did he do all of this? What is all this about?

And so I want you to turn to the 139th Psalm.

We won't read it all, but we'll read portions of it because it is so descriptive of exactly what we want to talk about.

And David is asking this question and talking about it.

He says, in the first verse, Oh, Lord, you have searched me and known me.

And you know when I sit down and when I rise up and you understand my thoughts from afar.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. That is, he just doesn't know about us,

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