Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, July 12th.

Are you living outside the will of God?

Today's podcast uses a familiar story to warn of the disastrous consequences of disobeying God.

God's will for us has always the very best in mind.

Now sometime he offers us more than we expect and anticipate, sometimes maybe

we don't get exactly what we were thinking about or what we thought we ought to have.

And yet you look around and oftentimes people who don't seem to have very much seem to be happy and contented and enjoying life.

And you look around and you notice other folks who seem to have it all. They got plenty. More than enough. They're unhappy. They're discontent. And somehow, life just doesn't seem to be going right with them. And oftentimes when people

have plenty and they make the big mistake we're going to talk about in the moment,

they can't figure out what's going on. And the truth is, what's going on is, they have allowed themselves to be deceived by something. Then thinking, if I have more, I'll be happier, more contented, more satisfied with life.

When the truth is that's not necessarily so, and when a person begins to pursue more and more and more. What happens is they're tempted to go beyond

what the will of God will allow in their life and the next thing you know they find themselves more and more miserable

not happier and happier. So ask yourself the question, what does it take to satisfy

you? If you know you're living in the will of God and doing what God wants you to do,

isn't there a sense of contentment and joy and happiness and all that?

But if you find yourself hungry to have more, aching to have more, pursuing something that you know possibly,

or at least tempted to pursue something that you know is not the will of God,

you know that that's not really going to satisfy you deep then inside and yet

people do it anyway. What happens is when you pursue things that are outside the

will of God you get God, you get disappointed. You get disillusioned. And before

long you find yourself being very discouraged with life because you see God has

fixed it so that if you and I will and I will seek his will and his way and trust what he gives us is the right thing,

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