I believe so much in living a life of obedience. If someone decides they are going to make being obedient to God of upmost importance they will not only live a life of uncommon blessing but uncommon sacrifice of self.
But sometimes we can get to a place where we think we should fly off the handle with what God has given us and we believe that because we are carrying his word that nothing else matters. Sometimes people get so focused that they dont understand they are tearing people apart as they get to the top.
Sometimes I wonder does everyone just need a break?
Do you need to take a rest with God and realize that you are daddy’s little girl. He loves you and doesnt expect you to follow him all the time.
He actually pre-knows your mistakes. He knows the times that you couldnt handle the radical blessings he gave to you. He knew you would get that divorce. He knew you would fall into sin with that person and he knew that you would struggle for most of your life with addictions that you are not even sure where they started from .
HE KNEW ALL OF THAT and there is no standard of behavior that he had for you to reach for him to care about your wellbeing.
Its actually people who look at his word and start giving people a list of rules that he requires. What he requires of you is that you simply follow him with as pure of heart as you can. And I am going to say what some wont tell you, even those following him with what we believe as religious people to be a pure heart are still full of things that the bible would call absolutely wicked.
We cant be anything without him.
We need God and we dont even need to allow the rulebook called obedience to take away from the fact that our father has a lot of grace and mercy not only for us but for the people around us.
My life will be lived touching the hearts of people that are incredibly nasty and sinful. And those are the ones that God thinks are just as righteous as I am.
There are so many different stories and lives out there and many people were born into situations that “made” them the sin they have struggled with. There was no way they wouldn’t have ended up in the tangled mess of the life they have.
I want those people to know just try with God. And when you fail a million times trying to get to where you are supposed to go just turn right back around and say daddy, I need you. I can’t do this without you and he will meet you there I promise.
YES!
There are those that are touting how obedient they are and I have lived that life and I still live it. Obedience to God is incredibly hard especially when you are trying to change or you are facing impossible situations and one thing that I know without a doubt at this moment is…
No matter how obedient some of us may try to be, it will never be good to say that we deserved any of the blessings that Jesus himself gave to us. His mercy favor and grace is unmatched and what I have now and what is about to come to my life are things that I will always know it WAS ONLY BY HIS WONDERFUL AND GREAT AND MIGHTY GRACE.
