God backs obedience
I must realise that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it.
I must realise that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it.
Smelling the daisies, beholding the oaks or resting among the birds would not be for Jesus in this garden. Gethsemane is His gateway to decision.
Has our prayer together as much as in life together, fallen for the bold deception that our words are more important than our silence? Silence has become a fearful thing...
To my mind 'obedience' is easy to say but ridiculously hard to do.
. . . I will walk humbly all my days because of the anguish of my soul (Isaiah 38:15b) . . .
Noah was a righteousness man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
It is in the shattering of the common-place that a disciple grows. It is in the opening of unexpected paradigms a disciple ventures to higher ground.
Isaiah 32:1-8 teases and tantalizes the Christian's heart and soul. Some Bibles print the title to this chapter quite accurately - "The Kingdom of Righteousness".
No true Christian carries a velvet cross. ~ John Flavel The pure and true knowledge of God is to convict a man to obedience.