Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 9th. Do you ever feel like you're just drifting through life?

Today's lesson points you to a reliable compass for navigating a safe course.

You know, a harbor is a very fascinating place because you'll see the crew up on the side of the ship painting and

repairing and they're polishing and somebody's always working there unloading and loading cargo

all the beauty and all the majesty and all the power in those ships but usually you'll see

something else somewhere along the shore and And that is an old derelict.

All the beauty that was once a part of that ship is no longer there, and now it's a derelict.

That is, it's sort of wasted away and of no use and no value.

And the very thing it was created for, it's no longer used.

All the derelicts are not made of steel and of wood, but some of them

are human. People who once were radiant, glowing believers, living in the faith, but something

happened in their life. And whatever happened, they ran aground. And it's no longer the

beauty and the joy and the contentment of the peace they once had, but somehow they feel as if

they're useless creatures. And oftentimes because of their sin, they look like derelicts. They're not all

with ragged clothes. Some of them are in the finest

clothes money can buy. But on the inside, they've become derelict. That is useless, wasting away.

The beauty is all gone. The joy is all gone. The happiness is all gone. And they're just sort of

existing. But the purpose for which

they're created, they're not any longer utilizing their life. There is a passage in 1 Timothy,

if you'll turn there, chapter 1, where Paul mentions a couple of men who made shipwreck of their

lives, and that's what I want to talk about in this message, and that is

shipwreck saints. First Timothy, chapter one, listen to what Paul wrote to Timothy, beginning in

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