Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, December 17th.

God's desire for every believer is that we grow to become more like His Son, Jesus Christ.

Discover what that really means as we continue our series, The God Who Cares.

There is so much hurt and sorrow and heartache and disappointment in the world that many people genuinely struggle with this idea that God really and truly is a God who cares.

And so we question whether God cares or not because our circumstances bring us doubt and frustrations and anxieties in life.

But the truth is, no matter what you and I experience, that doesn't indicate that God doesn't care once we understand what God is up to

and allowing the difficult and the hardship and the things we don't understand that transpire in our life.

Well, he loves us so much and he cares so much for us.

The Bible says that he has revealed himself to us.

That is, he's shown us himself in a way that you and I would never know had he not chosen to reveal himself.

He cares for us enough that he's chosen to rescue us from

eternal death and to save us from our sin. He cares for us enough that he wants to make and to build

a relationship with us. And to think about the idea that Almighty sovereign God desiring to build

a relationship, a personal relationship with us,

that is that he's not satisfied just saving us, but he wants an intimate personal relationship

on an ongoing basis day by day. And then the title of this message, that God who cares

enough to make us like himself. And I want you to turn, if you will,

to three very, very, very important verses of Scripture that have to do with God's whole

great purpose for you and me and all of life, and that is in Romans chapter 8, verses 28, 29, and 30.

Three very familiar verses, but oftentimes we stop at verse 28 because we want everything working

out so good for us.

Well, verse 28 begins, and we know, and isn't it interesting that he didn't say we hope,

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