“If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15)
“Our Lord never insists on our obedience. He stresses very definitely what we ought to do, but He never forces us to do it. We have to obey Him out of a oneness of spirit with Him …
The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation … When God’s redemption brings a human soul to the point of obedience, it always produces. If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.”
(Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, November 2)
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Today I am joining … Scripture & a Snapshot and Sunday Scripture Blessings and Selah .
I used to quote Elisabeth Elliot to my kids: “Delayed obedience is disobedience. ”
Now, I hear my son say it to his kids…ðŸ˜
How blessed you are that he is passing this truth on!
Tagging on to what Michele said, author Joy Dawson taught me that the reverential fear of the Lord is seen in us through our wholehearted, swift obedience to Him.
If I obey Jesus, the redemption of God can flow through me – love this thought!