Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, July 15th.

When young children wander away from their parents, they can quickly find themselves in danger.

Christians are no different. When we drift from God's word, we are vulnerable too.

This is a timely warning against wandering from the word.

We have an instruction book on how to live.

And when we just sort of give it a glance here and there once in a while,

try to put our life together, try to make things work exactly right,

and ignore the book, we have the same frustration only with far more devastating results.

This is God's instruction book.

This is the infallible, inerrant word of the living God.

This is his message to mankind.

This is his message that tell us how to live, to tell us about himself, how to relate to each other,

and all the things in life that you and I need. And my friend, if you're not familiar with that

book, it's like buying a very complicated piece of equipment and ignoring the instruction

book, it won't work. Nobody is smart enough to live in this life and ignore the instruction book for life,

which is the Word of God. And then some of us who know it and know it well make this awful

mistake of wandering from it. We stray from it. And we think that somehow we have enough

experience in life and enough knowledge that somehow we'll make it work even without this book.

It just doesn't work.

And the title of this message is Wondering from the Word.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Psalm 119, and I want us to begin with verse 9

of the longest chapter in the whole Bible.

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