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

Next on In Touch, the good side of inadequacy.

When you feel inadequate about something, what do you do?

You want to give up and quit?

Walk away?

Because life's full of moments when we feel inadequate at the moment,

or when we take the long look, we think I could never do that.

I could never go that far.

I would never have the strength, the energy, the knowledge, the understanding.

Other folks could do it, but I couldn't do it.

You see, I didn't grow up in that kind of a place.

I didn't have a father or a mother.

It's just that my life is such that, you know, you couldn't count on me

for doing anything outstanding.

And I've always felt inadequate all of my life, and so don't expect too much out of me.

Is that one of the attitudes you have when you're faced with a challenge?

Or do you, on the other hand, say, I can handle it.

Don't worry about it, I can handle it.

Pride, arrogance, self-dependence, and all the rest.

Either one of those extremes do not fit who you are as a child of God.

You're going to feel inadequate sometimes about something.

That's naturally normal.

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