Are you willing

Title:Are you willing?

Scripture: If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land – Isaiah 1:19

Obedience is difficult and requires deep commitment but it is not an option for the child of God. Obedience is a soldier quality (2 Timothy 2:3). It is his first and his last lesson. One he must learn to practice all the time without question or complaint.Obedience is the very test of our love for God. Abraham as he offered Isaac is a wonderful example of this. He didn’t ask questions. He didn’t ask why. He just got up and went. God doesn’t call us to half hearted obedience or an obedience that picks and chooses what the flesh likes.

[pullquote] Obedience is purely an act of the will. [/pullquote] Obedience is the key condition of your relationship with God. His Lordship over you must take precedence before your wants, desires, and needs.Faith is of the heart, invisible to men. It is that element of trust that is invisible. Your obedience is proven by your outward conduct.

[pullquote]Obedience is doing what God says, when He says it, how He says it, for whatever reason He says it, or with whom He says it.[/pullquote] Humility is the attitude that should pervade your life. It is only through humility that you become obedient. Jesus chose to be humble. He made Himself nothing and humbled Himself. Just as Jesus made the conscious decision to be obedient, so must you make a conscious decision to do the same. Obedience was the law of His life, and so it must be with yours. In everything He did, he was obedient.

Obedience won’t happen automatically, but it must be learned and put into practice in both our attitudes and actions. Hebrews 5:8 shows us that even Jesus “learned obedience from the things which He suffered.”

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. – Isaiah 1:20

Obedience begins with the attitude of your heart . Obedience to God that is required in the Scriptures is obedience that is produced by trust. Obedience is proof of your relationship with God.

Decide to experience possible conflict. Anyone who obeys the Lord will encounter conflict. First of all, there will be inner discord when what God is calling us to do seems humanly unreasonable. Furthermore, obedience might also result in relational disharmony if others don’t understand or agree with what the Lord is telling us to do.

[pullquote]Partial obedience is the greatest enemy to obedience. Partial obedience is disobedience [/pullquote]

Leave the consequences to God. When He challenges us to obey, our minds could fill with
doubts: Suppose He can’t fix this situation. What if He doesn’t provide enough? When these thoughts come to mind, we must remember that the Lord is always sufficient and adequate for every issue in our lives. Our job is simply to obey Him and then watch Him work out His will in our lives in surprising ways.
Accept divine chastisement in response to disobedience. Every child of God experiences His discipline. The question is: how will we respond? If we resist His chastisement and blame Him for all our troubles, we’re demonstrating that we have not learned obedience. However, if we have an obedient spirit, we’ll recognize our heavenly Father’s discipline as a loving act of protection and respond

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