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Silence and Stillness (2 minutes)
Silence and Stillness (2 minutes)
Scripture
“We can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. If someone claims, ‘I know God,’ but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.” 1 John 2:3-6 (NLT)
Reflect
God’s demand that we obey him is exactly God’s relentless commitment to bless us. To repeat, God demands our obedience so that we can flourish.
This
demand for obedience is an act of Grace.
This is no different from a mother who demands, expects, requires her
child to do what’s right.
Why? Because she loves her child and go to whatever length
necessary to get her child in a place of blessing, even to the point of making
demands.
Obeying
mom, then is the act of receiving grace.
Obedience is trust in mom.
It is belief that she’s right.
It is faith in mom and her love for me.
My faith, trust, belief and obedience, then, are the path to abundant
living in God’s good world.
Obedience is always hard, but then the path to ultimate blessing is
always hard.
Question to Consider
When have you discovered a great joy and blessing after spending arduous,
painful, laborious hours, days, weeks or years obeying some kind of
directive which, while you were in the midst of it, made little or no
sense at all?
Prayer
"Lord, thank you for the gift of showing me how life works in your world. Give me the courage I need to choose your will, your commands, over my weak and selfish desires, choosing to believe that your ways lead to life, while my shortcuts lead only to temporary flashes of light which are all too quickly extinguished by the darkness. Amen"
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