In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the call of God.

When you think about God, do you think about Him as a power or a person? And when you think about Him, do you think about Him as a power or a person?

And when you think about Him, do you think about him being distant or do you think about

him being close?

Well, the way you and I view Him is the way we're going to respond to him.

And the truth is, God isn't just a power.

He's a powerful person. And he isn't just distant. He's only

distant to those who have distanced themselves from him. He is a God of mercy and love and

goodness and kindness. He's a God who seeks the best for us. He is the God who desires the best

for us. He is the God who expresses his best for us. He is the God who expresses

his love and kindness toward us in every way possible. In fact, one of the most wonderful things

about God is that he is not so distant that he cannot speak to us, but he desires to communicate

with us, to speak to us, and to have us to speak to him. And oftentimes

people will go through their whole life, never thinking in terms of the fact that God wants

to talk to you. We think sometimes that praying is we do all the talking and that's sort

of the way it is, but God desires to communicate with us. And he communicates with us in ways that we don't even understand probably.

And sometimes we give the credit to someone else when truly it is God who is in the process

of communicating with us.

And when I think about all the aspects of God, the fact that he's willing to do that

is one aspect of his character and his love for

us that we need to examine and when I think about for example all the way back in the Old

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