Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 2nd.

Do you hesitate when you face a new God-given challenge?

Today you'll hear about the importance of obeying God by looking at the life of someone who didn't.

Joan is life highlights the costly decision to run from God.

Do you remember the last time you ran from God?

So I've never run from God yet, chef.

You know, how do you know? You don't even know me. How do you know I've run from God because all of us have?

Well, how do you run from God? Well, it's real simple.

When God tells us to do something, and we choose not to do it, and we head into the other direction we're running from God.

You may be walking in the process, but you're running from God.

We've all done it. We've all paid the price, but oftentimes we forget that.

And some people are running from God who do not even realize exactly what's happening in their life.

People run to all kinds of things. You don't run from God to nothing.

You run from God to something, or to somebody, whatever it might be.

And so what you have to ask is, what difference does it make?

And what I want to show you in this message this morning is simply this.

It makes a lot of difference whether you and I obey God or not.

And what I want to talk about is the costly decision of running from God.

Because it is indeed costly.

And one of the reasons that so many people are in trouble about all kinds of things in their life, they're running from God.

They've chosen to disobey God. They don't like what he says. They don't like what their conscience says.

And so they just run. They run from God to drugs. They run from God to alcohol.

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