JOURNAL=OBEDIENCE TO GOD

JOURNAL=OBEDIENCE TO GOD




“Then they abandoned their nets and FOLLOWED HIM” Mark 1:16




WHAT WOULD YOU DO-if a CHRIST-LIKE figure appeared in the 21^st century-TOLD you to quit your job-LEAVE your family-and COME FOLLOW HIM-this is ESSENTIALLY what happened 2000
years ago-even IF you BELIEVED you found the MESSIAH-NOT such an easy decision


YET for all the criticism the APOSTLES take-this IS what the APOSTLES did-COMMENDABLE in its own right-and then AFTER the RESURRECTION-they go on to BEGIN BUILDING the KINGDOM OF GOD-what I wouldn't give-to have been A PART OF IT


IN TODAY'S WORLD-we don't really get to choose IF we will DROP everything and follow CHRIST-and yet we do-BY ALWAYS KEEPING God and our FAMILY first-WE CAN BUILD the KINGDOM of GOD wherever we are-because we LIVE in the electronic age


DESPITE HOW we do it-the HIGHEST FORM OF PRAISING GOD is LISTENING and OBEYING him-it is A GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in God's LOVE for us-and a great day for BUILDING the KINGDOM OF GOD










WITNESS




9-3-13




OBEDIENCE TO GOD




It is important
To hear the Word of God


It is important to listen
To the Word of God
But once we are sure
We know what God
Is asking/telling us to do
Are we obedient to it
Are we obedient
To God’s Word


If we are
True followers of God
God sometimes
Asks us to do very difficult---very difficult things


“But the one
Who hears my words
And does not put them into practice
Is like a man without a foundation
The moment the torrent
Struck that house
It collapsed
And its destruction was complete” Luke 6:49


Love, forgiveness, kindness
Christ tells us that they are ROCK
Was he right
You know he was
Nothing was ever built on hatred


Being obedient to God
May be to just keep being kind
To that same difficult person
That turns their head
When we say hello
That treats us with contempt
And thinks we are beneath them


Being kind
To that same difficult human being
That takes us for granted over and over and over again


Christ taught us
About a different kind of love
It is called agape’
And means
Loving your enemies


“If your enemy is hungry
Give him to eat
If he is thirsty
Give him water to drink


In doing this
You will keep burning coals
On his head
And the Lord will reward you” Proverbs 25:21 & 22


Being a Christian
Means not only listening, hearing,
And knowing the Word of God
But being obedient to God
When he asks you
To do something difficult and uncomfortable


Do you think
Christ wanted to be
Mocked, ridiculed, humiliated, and die a shameful death


Of course not---But he did it
Because that is what God---his Father
OUR FATHER---told him to do


“Those who obey his commands
Live in him
And he in them
And this is how we know
That he lives in us:
We know it by the SPIRIT he gave us” 1 John 3:24


So the next time
God asks you
To do that difficult task
To love that difficult person
Who treats us with contempt


Lord we pray that we say YES
Just as JESUS---YOUR SON---did


Robert P. Wallman
6-16-11




Ps WITNESS 9-3-13




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