Obedience

I think there is a lesson here for many of us in God’s communities, or churches, today.  It seems like we lean on our own understanding far too often and we rebel against the Lord for lack of knowledge.  God’s Word says my people perish for lack of knowledge.  The reason this happens is not because people don’t know, but that people rejected the knowledge that they possessed for they rejected God’s laws and didn’t live by them.  

We need to study to show ourselves approved then we need to live what 2 Timothy 2:14-15 says, “Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

This is what the Bereans did, read Acts 17:10-12, “Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.”  These people didn’t just study but thy lived what they found to be truth.  

Now please read chapter 7:1 in that same book, “Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

Question: are you putting the things you read and learn into practice or are you rejecting the things that the Word of God says?

Read what Jeremiah 7:21-23 says about obedience, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’”  Obedience is far more important than sacrifice, but how will you be obedient if you don’t know what you are to do?

Now read 1 Samuel 15:22, “So Samuel said: ‘Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.’”

This is just a reminder and we all can use a reminder now and then, it is just a reminder that we need to try our best to be obedient to the Word of God.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you all have a super day!!  Don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord for He is worthy!!