Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday October 31st.

Big things, little things, it doesn't matter.

Today we'll discover just how important it is to faithfully follow all of God's commands.

To obey God is always the right thing to do, the wisest thing to do but not always the easiest thing to do.

And when you think about your life and what God requires of us,

we all have to admit that sometime it's not the easiest. Sometimes we think, for example,

our way is a better way. Our way is an easier way. It's a less expensive way. There's less pain and sometimes if you and I obey God

there'll be pain, there can be suffering, that can be rejection, there can be loss.

You say well why in the world if I want to obey God if all that could happen to me? Here's a reason.

Because he says, whatever the circumstance, listen, our God causes all things to work together for good to those who love him and to those

who are called according to his purpose.

So God is in the business of blessing and guiding his children, but he's also

in the business of encouraging us to be obedient to him because he knows that's the wisest thing we can do, the best thing we can do.

The smartest thing we can possibly do is be obedient to the principles of the world of

God.

So I want you to listen carefully. Wherever you are,

wherever you're listening, you'll want to take some notes today because whatever you're facing

in life, you're going to come to those times when you need courage

to face them, whether it's with your family, your job, whatever it might be.

So listen carefully and remember this because the illustration happened several thousand years ago it is just

as true today as it was then because God never changes principles don't change. So if you'll turn to the Old Testament to the

book of Joshua. And this very first chapter, I want us to read these first nine verses of this chapter together.

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