Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 16th.

Living for the admiration of others comes with a high price.

Let's continue the study of first Samuel chapter 18 to see how David's attitude helps

us understand and manage the price of popularity.

Now, popularity is one thing that a lot of people are looking for in life, and many people

think that somehow when they find the popularity that they're looking for, that that's going

to satisfy something in them.

Let me tell you something.

If a person is seeking popularity to satisfy anything, what they're going to discover

is when they have found it and they have reached it, it is simply an emptied promise.

Well, here I believe is a lesson about the price of popularity in a person's life.

David was no more than a mere shepherd boy.

In fact, he was the second son, or rather, the son of the second wife of Jess, if you'll

recall as we've been studying.

And he was looked down upon by his brothers.

And when David came as the shepherd boy over to bring something for his brothers, at the

time they were facing Goliath, you'll recall that his brother said to him, asking him,

he said, why don't you get back at that with those few sheep that you have, simply implying

that he wasn't much of a shepherd boy because if he had a man, he'd have had more sheep.

They scolded him.

He looked down upon him and he was more like a servant in that household than he was

the son.

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