OBEDIENCE. a very important word in the your walk with Christ. you can't move further without this. i've tried. doesn't happen. you might be a wonderful person who loves the lord and does what is right. you may be very spiritually sound and strong in jesus; but like you learn your lesson in love, forgiveness and other things it is very important to learn your lesson in obedience. it is a marking factor in your christian life. Jesus Christ was and is the son of the only God, but leaving that aside he had to be obedient to the will of his father. Moses; great man of God, very powerful servant, put up with a lot of (frankly speaking) unpleasantness with Israel cause he was being obedient. get real!he din't really need that. but he did that in obedience. noah who might have appeared to be a nutcase to many who watched him at it, in his time was being obedient to God. they were all being obedient, it was a part of their ministry. obedience to God was their ministry.
obedience is your ministry. cause their is nothing you can give God except for your thanks and obedience for all that He has done for you. you need to earn to love obedience to God. obedience in the true sense does not generate from fear, it generates from love and selflessness. you should be able to wake up in the morning and truly say to God that 'father i give my life to you and i'll be obedient to you,i'll do what you want' - that is what our God is looking for cause he's pouring out everything for you. for psalm 119:72 says "the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of god and silver".
your obedience in God does not stop there, it is obedience to your parents in Christ and very importantly to your shepherd: the man of God who leads you.
right or wrong. logical or illogical. tiny thing or big thing. you have to obey. trust me you, that you cant be anything in Christ if you do not OBEY.
you need to squash down your pride for that, become humble , like Jesus did. cause till the time you don't stop thinking for yourself and start taking orders from God and the people who He has assigned over you, you'll not come close to practicing obedience.
it's not easy. it kills. but that's the way it is. if my Jesus was obedient to the extent that He died on the cross for no fault of His, then why cant i be obedient in the situations God puts me in. you've got to think like that. and trust me , He'd never ask you to do something you're not capable of.
i've learnt, rather am learning my lesson in obedience. the hard way. and i know how important is is to obey. it's a part of who you are.
at the end of it God will reward you.
