Trust and Obey .. It's the only way

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘You cannot think through spiritual confusion to make things clear; to make things clear, you must obey. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will only think yourself into further wandering thoughts and more confusion. If there is something in your life upon which God has put His pressure, then obey Him in that matter.’ CHAMBERS

 

1 Corinthians 10:4-5 “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

 

When I have read those verses in the past I thought about those things that come against me .. but what about those things that come from within me?  James 4:1 “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”  Our flesh and our spiritual nature are at odds with one another.  We cannot resist sin by thinking our way through it.  We must use the sword of the Spirit.  In 1 Samuel 15:22, Samuel said that obedience is better than sacrifice.  If we have a problem with obedience … we have a love problem … Jesus asked why do you say you love Me but don’t obey Me?  Obedience is a natural response to our loving God.

 

So my friend .. the point is simply this … we live by the Spirit and Faith … our response to the desires that well up in us and the situations we find ourselves in must  come from the source of our life …

 

“When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, What a glory He sheds on our way! While we do His good will, He abides with us still, And with all who will trust and obey. Trust and obey for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus (in your new life) than to trust and obey.”

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)