Sometimes it's hard. It's hard to obey, especially the Lord. Everything in our fleshly, human nature resists it. However, all life is breathed from this key: obey. The Lord spoke let there be life, so there is life. All the molecules of our being came together and formed in obedience to the creator, so how do we think our lives will be fulfilled without this action being put into play? Obey. Obedience. Even if it simply means waiting in the silence.
Being still. To be still and know your God. How can we obey the voice of the one that we do not know? If we do not recognize the voice, will we follow? An even better question is if we will know the voice and follow? Even if following means being still, resting, laying tranquilly as we wait, having life poured into us by merely being.
Hebrews talks a lot about faith in the Lord. That is what our relationship is built on. Everything that pertains to the Lord is winnowed down to this basic word: Faith. However, the last chapter speaks on different matters. It speaks of obedience, sacrifices deemed pleasing to the Lord. In the Law, sacrifices were the redeeming factor for Israel. Their whole culture was based upon obedience and sacrifices made for disobedience.
However, Hebrews talks of another way. It says that there is an eternal sacrifice, a redeeming factor. I talked about this in a previous post. So then, the sacrifice that remains is obedience to the Lord, and our redeeming factor is grace. Obedience becomes the basis of our sacrifices, not slaughtered goats, because obedience is based on relationship. Obedience requires knowing someone, knowing their voice, will, likes, dislikes...and going about to fulfill their desires. This is why we call God Master and Lord, because obedience shapes our offerings of Praise to him. But, if we are not listening to his voice and walking in his will how can we call him Lord? We can't. A good servant knows the business of his master and fulfills it to the best of his abilities. This is his duty, but more so the evidence of his faithfulness. Still, the basis of all obedience is to obey when the master calls us to listen. Only when we listen will we know the will of the Lord and be equipped to follow.
Being still. To be still and know your God. How can we obey the voice of the one that we do not know? If we do not recognize the voice, will we follow? An even better question is if we will know the voice and follow? Even if following means being still, resting, laying tranquilly as we wait, having life poured into us by merely being.
Hebrews talks a lot about faith in the Lord. That is what our relationship is built on. Everything that pertains to the Lord is winnowed down to this basic word: Faith. However, the last chapter speaks on different matters. It speaks of obedience, sacrifices deemed pleasing to the Lord. In the Law, sacrifices were the redeeming factor for Israel. Their whole culture was based upon obedience and sacrifices made for disobedience.
However, Hebrews talks of another way. It says that there is an eternal sacrifice, a redeeming factor. I talked about this in a previous post. So then, the sacrifice that remains is obedience to the Lord, and our redeeming factor is grace. Obedience becomes the basis of our sacrifices, not slaughtered goats, because obedience is based on relationship. Obedience requires knowing someone, knowing their voice, will, likes, dislikes...and going about to fulfill their desires. This is why we call God Master and Lord, because obedience shapes our offerings of Praise to him. But, if we are not listening to his voice and walking in his will how can we call him Lord? We can't. A good servant knows the business of his master and fulfills it to the best of his abilities. This is his duty, but more so the evidence of his faithfulness. Still, the basis of all obedience is to obey when the master calls us to listen. Only when we listen will we know the will of the Lord and be equipped to follow.
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