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

Next on In Touch, when we seek God.

If God were to offer to give you the three strongest desires of your heart, what would they be?

Would it be something that has to do with your physical being, maybe how you look or your health?

Would it be something that has to do with something, maybe material possession that you'd like to have?

Maybe some pleasure that you've sought, maybe some goal that you've

tried to accomplish, or could it be that the greatest desire of your heart would be your

relationship to him and something about that? Well, more than likely, you could come up with those

three desires, but what they are would probably tell more about yourself than you realize.

It could be that all of us, all of those desires have been one of those categories or the other,

or it may be that they're scattered out over all the rest of them.

There's nothing wrong with having desires, not only for things as well as people, whatever it might be,

as long. It depends upon the nature of that desire.

It depends upon how it affects your life, and it depends upon the fact, how does that desire

fit into God's will and plan for your life? All of us have those desires. The tragedy is that

many people are going to seek things all of their life they're never going to find.

There are a lot of people out there who are looking for

peace, that is, they're seeking for peace without God. You can't have such a thing. They're looking

for contentment without having Christ in their life. There is no such thing. They're looking for

security and just absolutely ignore the Savior himself. There is no such thing. The only security there is

is security that comes in relationship with Jesus Christ. That's what we call eternal security

because everything else you put your hopes on in this life could dwindle away very quickly

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