OBEDIENT TO GOD LEADS TO BLESSINGS AND GOD'S FAVOR.
CHILDREN OF COVENANT & GRACE:
SOMETIMES WE ARE IN A SITUATION IN WHICH WE ARE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN WHAT WE CONSIDER THE BEST FOR OURSELVES AND THE WILL OF GOD.
THE HOLY BIBLE HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT, THE WAYS OF GOD ARE NOT SAME AS OURS.
ISAIAH, 55:-8-9 “FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NEITHER ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS, SAYS THE LORD.”
WE ALL KNOW THE OUTCOME OF ADAM’S DECISION AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHICH WE ALL BEAR TILL THIS DAY. (GEN. 3:-19)
STUBBORNESS LEADS TO REBELLION, BUT OBEDIENT TO GOD LEADS TO BLESSINGS AND GOD’S FAVOR.
ABRAHAM ALLOWED THE WILL OF GOD BY GIVING UP HIS SON (ISAAC) FOR SACRIFICE: NOT ONLY DID HE RETURNED HOME WITH HIS SON, HE WAS GREATLY BLESSED BEYOND HIS IMAGINATION.
PROVERBS, 3:-5-6 “TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART: AND LEAN NOT UNTO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS.”
THEREFORE, LET US ALL BE GOOD CHILDREN OF GOD AND ALLOW HIS WILL TO PREVAIL IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ALLOWED THE WILL OF HIS FATHER (GOD) OVER HIS, DURING HIS PRAYER TIME AT THE PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE. (MATT. 26:-36-39) AND ALSO IN THE BOOK OF JOHN, 14:-34.
IN CONCLUSION: OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF AND GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, WHICH HATH LOVED US, AND HAS GIVEN US EVERLASTING CONSOLATION AND GOOD HOPE THROUGH GRACE, COMFORT OUR HEARTS, AND ESTABLISH US IN EVERY GOOD WORD AND WORK. HE WILL ALSO LEAD US IN THE PATH OF ETERNAL SALVATION.
IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.