Obedience and Blessings
When a person shows a good attitude of obedience, it means they have learned the first step to living a righteous life within their society. Obedience to the law is a preventative to creating problems with others and this is applicable to everything. In the spiritual realm, obedience to God’s commandments brings real blessings and disobedience can generate anger and condemnation. There are many laws written in the Old Testament for men. “This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.” (Deuteronomy 26: 16-17 ESV)
We need to understand that when we obey God we begin a spiritual renewal and the Holy Spirit helps us attain to a mental assimilation of the commandments of God. “And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.” (1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV)
In a world where we all communicate in different ways and use whatever medium technology provides, we come to a point where words have become fragile and perishable because their original meaning is lost. For example, the words love and friendship are being used outside the original context in which they were created — both words are being used by fools who only have the goal of winning over people and being accepted by society. That reality does not belong to a Christian who claims to be a disciple of Christ because we show our vocation using words in full accordance with the Gospel. Our way of being needs to be a living testimony of what we believe accomplishing the mission to which God has called us through the gospel to his kingdom and glory.
Our obedience to the Lord leads us to live according to the legacy we receive in His Word inspired and written in the Bible. That leads us to a life of holiness, full of blessings and to a patience so that the sufferings associated with this life are bearable. We must never forget that this world is not the place where we will be together forever, and that our souls will one day be in heaven where we will eternally live in the glory of the Lord.
“Jesus Christ’s first obedience was the will of his Father, and our first obedience is to be to him.” (O. Chambers) “Therefore my beloved, as you always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:12-13 ESV
May God bless you.
