Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday June 17th.

A farmer plants corn seed and expects corn to grow.

It's a simple agricultural fact, but it also relates to life in general.

Today's podcast helps you apply the principle of sewing and reaping.

Well, life is full of choices, and we make all kind of choices in life and what we don't realize is that we make choices early in life that go with us for the rest of our life.

It becomes part of our character because you see early

in life we'll hear things we see things we experience things in life that we

think that's in the past and that's gone that's forever. The truth is all we see, all we

hear, all we experience is still there. And when I think about children who want their

way early in life.

They will grow up and they'll want their way later on in life

until someone helps them to understand what life's really all about.

Because you see, here's what happens.

Whatever's planted in our life as a child

becomes the seeds of the things that build our character.

So the truth is all of us today are the result of

those people who have put seeds of good ideas and good habits into our life and then there have been those who have tried to

build other things into our life. And you know it's interesting that the

Lord said in a very short verse, train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he'll not

depart from it.

And yet we have the idea that somehow if we just let kids grow up any way they want to, they'll

be okay. The truth is that is not true because if a

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