Heeding His Command
Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. (Psa 148:5)
Adonai command and creation came into being; bringing nothing into form and lifelessness to life. That is the display of the authority the Almighty has. Is there the authority of God over our lives? Does He command our destiny or have we charted out our own future. The thing we normally do is to plan then ask God to bless and call them into being. There is an underlying attitude that we may not be aware of that treats the Almighty liken unto a contractor to build our future based on what we penned on our drawing board.
‘Intellectual darkness is the result of ignorance, but spiritual darkness is the result of something that I do not intend to obey’ – Oswald Chambers
He commands and we obey. If we know Who our God is, then we can believe Him for a good expected end (Jer 29:11). We often fear the future and what will become of us more than having a healthy fear of the Living God (Matt 10:28). We need to be rescued from the prison of self into the freedom of God’s good, acceptable and perfect will by giving our totality to Him (Rom 12:1, 2). Don’t give the left-overs and the spiritually worthless to Him for God is Spirit (John 4:24). Present ourselves to God, abide in Christ and heed His commandments. It’s not legalism that saves us; it is faith to believe that what He says is well with my soul. On the premise of faith we obey, an obedience not out of anything else but in believing in the finality of His word.
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He commands, we obey. Soon the New Year arrives, the beginning. Open the year of a seven day feast of Shofar. In it the Father speaks a new commandment to His children Israel each year. The Father Speaks the son offers an ear to hear. Out of the hearing of the command of that seven years comes the supply of Word, hearing and obedience throughout the circuit of the year! What grace! O hear, O Israel. Out of hearing comes obedience of faith.
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