Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 1st.

Inability and weakness are rarely seen as gifts from God.

Yet Christians can learn to appreciate them, just as the Apostle Paul did.

Let's continue helps to holiness and discover how to find strength through weakness.

The world says today that they admire and promote the man or the woman who is strong.

It is strength and might and power and force and affluence that affects the world.

They are greatly impressed by this. They're greatly impressed

by the size, greatly impressed by the might and the power. They're walking in an entirely

different direction on a whole different wavelength than we who are believers. And yet isn't it strange

how we court their favor? And the result of courting their favor is this.

We have little by little allowed them to infiltrate their humanistic ideas into the ideas that you and I preach in the gospel.

They believe that the world is man-centered.

This book says that the world ought to be God-centered.

That in the life of a person, it is not his ability or his talent, but rather the talent, the ability, the might, the strength of God.

So that when you and I face the world, oftentimes we are prone to take a back seat.

We are prone to be a little bit embarrassed and a little bit may be hesitant to speak forth

because we know their basic philosophy.

And the error we commit is this.

We think if we don't match up to what they expect, they'll look down their nose at us.

We are living on an entirely different level of life than they're living on.

So that when Paul came to write the 12th chapter of 2nd Corinthians, he understood that philosophy.

He knew that he had spoken, he had talked to many, many people whose whole concept

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