Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 3rd.

Are you looking for a good friend? Scripture can guide you.

Today's podcast explains that the road to life at its best includes knowing how to choose

godly companions.

When God created you, He created you for a purpose. He had a plan for your life.

You said, well, He must have messed up on my plan, no? He didn't mess up on your plan.

You see, we're the ones who mess up the plans because we don't understand or maybe we learn a little bit

late in life, what it's really all about, but He has a plan for your life.

And I can tell you this, it's a good plan.

It's a good plan. We don't always think it's good because it doesn't exactly turn out the way

we wanted to turn it, but it's still good. That is for those of us who believe us.

If you've never trusted Jesus Christ as you save you and you're going through a heartache, pain and suffering,

we understand that. If you're a believer and you're going through a heartache, suffering and pain, understand that.

Because He never says it's going to be easy.

What I want you to see is He has a plan.

Number one, and secondly, He's promised to guide you through that plan so that your life can be the best that God intended for you.

And so I want to talk about this whole idea, the fact that our life is like a road.

And for us to follow that road, to follow His road, is always the best choice.

And I want you to turn to a small passage if you look in Proverbs chapter 4 for a moment.

And I want us to begin in verse 10.

And look at this. He says, first of all, we have to hear.

There are a lot of people who hear, but don't do the rest.

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