Obedience

When it comes to obedience it’s not always the easiest thing for us to do. For many of us giving up control of our lives and consenting and having faith in God is downright scary, because it’s so hard to perceive with our natural minds. For many years some of us have been making our own decisions about our lives and not to even say some of those decisions were bad, they may have even provided you prosperity in your life. To give up total control of your life can be a daunting task. When we obey God’s will for our lives that’s exactly what we are doing, we are laying our own wants and desires down and trusting in Him to lead our lives into our God-given destinies. This is easier said than done because God doesn’t think like you and I, and his instructions can be very strange, not making a bit of sense to us.

Sometimes God will give us a step to take, but we don’t understand it and it seems completely irrational, or it seems like its taking us the complete opposite direction of where we think we should be going. Sometimes the action takes us way past our comfort zones. Sometimes it looks like by taking the action we might lose something, or take us out of the way of our dreams we had for our lives. When it comes to these times when God is giving us an instruction it is imperative to our lives, and possibly the lives of others that we follow the instructions that He has given us. Let’s look at Jesus as our example…

Philippians 2:7-8 (NCV)
But he gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant. And when he was living as a man, he humbled himself and was fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.

Here Jesus showed us the greatest act of obedience. What God was asking Him to endure was not something that in his humanity he wanted to endure, as you can see…

Luke 22:42 (NLT) “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

But the key in that scripture is that He said “I want your will to be done, not mine.” Even though He didn’t want to endure the suffering that He was going to go through, He knew the importance of following the will of God and because He followed the will of God we all have salvation available to us today. So each time God gives you an instruction in life, whether it doesn’t make sense, or takes you out of your comfort zone, or causes discomfort, I want you to remember Jesus, and just make the choice as He did to take that step and trust God.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (CEV) With all your heart you must trust the LORD and not your own judgment. Always let him lead you, and he will clear the road for you to follow.

The most important thing in your life with Christ is instruction.

Proverbs 4:13 (NKJV)
Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go: Keep her, for she is your life.

In anything you do whether it be for God or for yourself you need instruction. If you have no instruction than you have no direction and no direction will lead you just wandering through this life on a road to nowhere.

The best instruction we can obtain is from God through His Word. His instruction will lead to a place in your life that you can’t even dream of. Though you may not understand the instruction from time to time, all you’ve got to do is obey it and all will be well. If you obey Gods instructions you are telling Him that you have faith in Him and we all know that without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). So have faith in God and obey his instructions and you can’t go wrong.

Daryle & Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org