Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 26th. It's essential for believers in Jesus to obey God fully. The tragic example of King Saul shows us how to avoid getting out of step with God.

It is a loving God who created you and provided a plan for your life.

And not only that, he also provided an eternal plan for your life, eternal redemption,

eternal salvation, eternal life.

And yet some people are not very interested in that.

They want to choose their own way in life.

And what happens is they end up with emptiness and disappointment and all the things that come as a result

of turning away from God. And yet if you'll think about it, every single one of us is a unique person.

There are no two people alike. God is not in the cloning business. He's made all of us

absolutely unique, no one else like us, and he loves us everyone. Have you thought about the fact

that he has a plan for your life and he wants you to walk in a certain way? And if you walk in that way,

then you're going to discover what life is like and what life can be at its very best.

If I walk and step with him, I'm going to experience his best.

If I get out of step, I'm on my own.

I'm going to find out what I can do minus God.

And I want to turn with you to 1st. And in First Samuel, here is a perfect example

of a young man who had it all together. It couldn't have been better for him. He had everything going for him,

and he chose to walk not in step with God's plan and purpose for his life,

but out of step. And what I want you to see is this. I want you to see how it began, because it

begins in all of our lives the same way. And I want you to see the steps and where it eventually took him.

And sometimes people say, well, I like to hear real positive sermons about how good God is,

how God loves us and so forth.

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