Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 12th.

The world distracts us with things that aren't very important.

Let's direct our attention to the most essential thing in life.

Here's part one of the privilege of knowing God.

Of all the people that you've ever met in your life, who above all of those stands out the most?

That is, about whom could you say with great delight, I've had the wonderful privilege of knowing him,

unknowing her. Was it some famous athlete, some famous artist, some outstanding

musician, or maybe some particular speaker that you enjoyed and got to know? Maybe someone in your

field of vocation, or maybe someone that you greatly admired and got to know in the area of some

hobby that you had. Maybe someone that had helped you a great deal in life. Or it could

have been someone not famous at all. Maybe a precious, wonderful grandmother or grandfather.

But someone who had made an awesome impression on your life and you counted a great

privilege just to know them. Well, when I think about all the people that you and I could know

and the privilege we have of knowing them, one thing is for certain. The greatest privilege you and I

have to know anyone is the privilege we have of knowing God. And oftentimes

we forget about that. We forget about the fact that it is a great privilege to know God,

that it is an awesome opportunity, an unparalleled benefit and an eternal treasure to be

able to know the living God.

And yet oftentimes we're more concerned about knowing other people,

about what they do and how they think and how they operate and what they can do for us.

But knowing God is the greatest of all knowledge.

And until you know him, you can place all the knowledge that you have of all things in the

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