Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, January 9th.

Are you familiar with Daniel from the Old Testament?

His life shows powerful motivation to remain faithful and fully surrender to the Lord.

Our series Unvailing Commitment continues.

Why is that some people can achieve so much and other people achieve so little?

Probably our first response is, well, these people are more talented than these people,

and therefore that's the reason, but not necessarily so.

Why is that some people are so excited and enthusiastic about what they're doing and energized to do well

of what they're doing, whereas someone else who may have the same responsibility seems to be

sort of lackadaisical about the whole idea, no excitement, no enthusiasm. What is the difference? How is it that two people oftentimes

sitting on the same pew in the same church building, listening to the same message, one can be

excited, enthusiastic about the Lord, desirous to know God, applying spiritual truths, the other person seated right

beside them, they're not excited, not enthusiastic, making no application, never take a note,

never carry a Bible to church, they just sort of there. What is the difference? The difference

is real simple. The difference is in motivation. One person is motivated on his job, the other one is not.

One child is motivated, the other one is not. One believer is motivated, the other is not.

Motivation is the drive that is within us. It is that something within us that moves us, that stirs us, that punches our button, that gets us

the moving.

What does it take to drive you on the inside, to energize you, to stir you, to incite you on,

to do the thing that you've told God that you're going to do?

Well, in the life of Daniel, some incidences happen

that give us, what I believe, are some very specific motivations in the area of our commitment.

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