Do you have limitations on what you will obey before God? Have you considered that your obedience is limited because your love is limited?! Do you choose which things you feel comfortable with obeying and reject the others?
Simeon had been promised to not see death until he saw the Messiah. Think about it for a moment. Simeon had nothing to hold on to but the promise of God…and the last mention of the Savior being born of a virgin was over 400 years ago…and now Simeon holds the Messiah in his own hands!