Me & the fam are spending a few days camping at our deer lease, mainly enjoying wide open spaces & each other’s company & I find myself pondering something I read in Isaiah yesterday.
“If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; but if you resist & rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of The Lord has spoken. Isaiah 1:19-20
The lessons I took away from this are:
1) If you resist, you are rebelling at the same time.
2) Doing something begrudgingly is NOT obedience.
3) Resisting and obedience are opposite of each other. They cannot simultaneously exist in you.
Learning to walk in obedience is much different than moments of obedience. The moments get us there. They strengthen our faith, as we learn to walk in obedience, but they are moments.
I do believe God rewards moments of obedience. He is helping us to understand the kind of blessings that can come, when we confirm our willingness to being obedient to His work and His plan.
Also, another thought I’ve had on the matter is: maybe what I consider blessings, are actually us living in union with God, how He has always intended. Then, when we revert back to our old ways, access to His peace leaves us and we are resting on what we know, and not God.
These thoughts have also had me pondering several people from testimonies in The Bible.
Paul walked in obedience after meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus.
Peter had moments of obedience when he was one of Jesus’s disciples, but his denial of Jesus shows, he was not walking in complete obedience to Jesus. Once Jesus was raised from the dead and visited His disciples is, likely, when Peter began walking in obedience for The Lord.
Elijah walked in obedience, sacrificing his own well-being for God and His plan.
Esther was called to more and reached a place where she made the choice, to walk in obedience with God.
Judas Iscariot may have had moments of obedience, but, surely, did not walk in obedience with God.
John the Baptist understood his assignment and walked in complete obedience to God’s plan.
Noah walked in obedience.
I am certain my experiences, thus far, are the results of moments of obedience. In many cases some major event occurred to encourage these individuals to walk in obedience with Jesus, and transition past moments of obedience.
Buck Up Baby & Ride With Jesus! Ponder with Him & talk it out. He wants us too!
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