Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, July 28th.

Do you ever wonder how to find true intimacy and closeness with the Lord?

Today's podcast explores how obedience isn't just a duty.

It's the pathway to a deeper relationship with him.

I was only in the first grade, but I still remember that big, long key that unlocked and

locked the door of my home where my mother and I lived. And it was one of those long black keys.

And I would take that key after I left in the morning and locked the door and hit it under a rock.

And nobody but my mother and I knew where that key was.

And I remember sometimes coming home in the afternoon and wondering if the key is there.

And I can still remember a little bit of how I felt when I moved the rock, there it was.

And what made that key so important was it was the key to my house.

It was the key to where my mother and I lived together, where my needs were met,

and where all of our belongings, which were extremely minute.

They were all there in that one house.

That's where I felt my mother's love and her care for me. It was a very important key. And more than likely you have keys to your house,

to your car, to your desk, to your drawer, to your safety deposit. Because you've got all kind of keys.

But haven't we all talked about having the key to somebody's heart? And what do

we mean by that? Simply this. When you have the key to somebody's heart, you know how

to get on the inside. You know how to move them towards you. You can sort of get a little

bit of a feeling of what they feel. It says something about what you know about that person and about how you

relate to them. And when I think about having the key to somebody's heart, let me ask you a question.

If you could hold the key to anybody's heart, whose heart would you want the key to? Well, more than like you could think of

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