I started asking myself how willing to be obedient I wanted to truly be. I was taught in church as a kid that obedience was not that big of a focus because of grace. The focus was on God's love and forgiveness. Those things are important but should they be my focus? My dad has told me time and time again that we need to go to the bible to find the measure of standards. I didn't find Yeshua saying things like go out and find grace. He said many many times "go and sin no more"
My question became how do I change my desire to do things that are obedient?
I quickly found out that obeying just because we are supose to was not enough pushing me back to a depend on grace focus again. Quickly discouragement set in. Then despair took over. I found that this pushes a person deep into a failure mentality and all ability to stay clear of sin falls under the weight of complacency.
So what would cause a person to obey and stick with it. I figured out that I was missing faith. I also determined that faith and trust coexist. Faith comes from hearing the word and trusting that it is actually truth. But what parts of the bible am I to trust in that will help me in a obedience battle?
I am going to drop some heavy verses on this subject. The idea will be to determine the level of faith we actually have. Faith is believing in things unseen. Or in other words faith is believing "The Word" (bible)when all circumstances scream against it. Faith is revealed when actions are based on the pursuit of growing to know Adonai rather than our actions being in direct response to the situational circumstances we are facing at the moment of crisis or decision. The focus however will not be on what Adonai is promising but should be on the action step that the verse will be requiring in order to be able for us to request that He take His action as promised. Most of these verses will be in two parts. One part will be YHVH action, meaning His promise, the other part will be something of a command for His followers to do in order to obtain the desired effect of Adonai following through with His portion therefore being true to His word or promise.
Joh 14:15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,
Joh 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive; for it does not see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
These verses were easy for me to gloss over without giving any serious thought. I just was focusing on a fast meaning that was on the surfice. Untill I turned the verse around a little bit in my brain. Of the few people that I know who care about obedience most of them only obey based on duty. This is not what the bible promotes especially in the verse above. Obedience comes from either fear or love. Children prove that. Most parents target fear of consiquences to motivate their children into obedience. However the rats will play when the cat is away. Teens prove this out escpially on tv. How many shows have the teens do a party that gets out of control when Mom and Dad are out for the night? Adults are no different. When we think Adonai is paying attention we go to church and do the duties we think we should. Now think about this if a young man loves a young girl he will do anything she asks all the time. It is just how it is men and women will do this left and right. However our altimate treasure should be Adonai Himself. I found out as I saught to understand this I started caring more and more about what He thought about me and my actions. I started struggling to obey in things I never even cared about before. I love Him so much that I do all that I can do obey. Spend some time with this. Do you really love Adonai? Or just go through the motions. In the next section I will take this a little deeper into reasons to obey. Some of the great promises that the bible brings to light.
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