Obedience Leads to Understanding – Psalm 119:100
One of the most important things you do to grow in your faith is to practice what you learn. Obedience leads to a growing understanding.
Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12 NIV)
Obedience to God is an essential component of the Christian life. It is much more important than the outward forms and rituals that are so often a mark of the Christian life. To obey is better than sacrifice.
One of the most important things you do to grow in your faith is to practice what you learn. Obedience leads to a growing understanding.
We generally have some goals in life, what we want to accomplish. As believers, we should make it our goal to please God in all we do.
We are all to often guilty of seeing why we can’t do what God wants. When we should recognize that nothing can hinder the Lord.
In the days of the judges, Israel had no king to lead them. And the result was that everyone did what they wanted and evil abounded.
As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have been baptized into his death and resurrection. We have died to sin and can live for him.
Jesus calls on us to watch and pray. Stay in touch with him through prayer. And watch to see where he is leading you.
Does God’s word cause you to tremble? Not with fear. But with a listening and responsive heart that seeks to respond in obedience.
The same choice God gave to Israel over 3000 years ago is the same one that we have today. Life and prosperity or death and destruction.
What does God expect of me as his child? To faithfully walk with Christ. And to love those that I am walking with. That is his command.
Jesus taught his disciples many things. And his challenge is not to leave them in our heads. But now that we know, to put them into practice.
Salvation involves more than a verbal confession. It involves faithfully following Jesus wherever he leads and serving him there.
As hard as it sometimes is, Peter’s words here call on us to submit to every human authority we find ourselves under. Even if they are evil.