Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley from Monday, December 12th.

True devotion to the Lord should naturally foster a desire to do what he says.

Our series of Passion for God continues.

How many of you have ever said in your life, or Jesus,

I choose to be obedient to you regardless of the consequences?

I'm going to do what you say do no matter what anybody else says or what happens.

Or are you one of those persons who has said,

Well, I want to obey God.

Listen, want to and making a commitment to do it is entirely different.

You want those persons who've said, well, yes, I'm going to be obedient to him.

But you already knew mine have set limitations.

And so you've drawn a line, I can use said, well, I'm going to obey God,

except when I can't see my way clear, then I'm not sure I'm going to do it.

Or if he requires too much, I'm not certain that I'm going to do it.

Or if I'm afraid, or if you know, if I don't think I can do it.

And what we do is we subconsciously draw line.

We subconsciously decide what our reservations are going to be.

What our limitations are going to be.

And I want to ask you a very, very sobering question.

If Jesus Christ is the Lord of your life, where did you ever get the idea that you had a right

to draw a line on Christ and to tell him that you're going to obey him up to a certain point?

You're going to obey him if you're going to obey him except you're going to obey him when.

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