Thursday, August 10, 2006
Obedience
Quite by accident, I suppose, I received a surge of God's grace and blessings that left me enjoying wave upon wave of joy-filled peace. I was able to survey a situation and calmy reflect that I had no idea how it would turn out ... and not feel responsible for manufacturing the outcome. I stepped out of my designed comfort and into His purposes without needing to know the probablity of results beforehand.
I obeyed.
Plain and simple. Did what God told me, with motives only to do what He told me. And watched Him work. And learned two things: 1) The grace to obey in large moments flows from the surrendering to grace daily in small moments. 2) There is power in obedience that I easily forget about. God moves and blesses and works in and through my obedience.
It's not one of our favorite words, that's for sure. It seems to rob us of autonomy and independence. Sort of marginalizes our grand plans and finely honed abilitites. I was reminded this week though, that obedience is the evidence of faith. So here's to celebrating less of me and more of Him. Less plotting, more obeying.
I obeyed.
Plain and simple. Did what God told me, with motives only to do what He told me. And watched Him work. And learned two things: 1) The grace to obey in large moments flows from the surrendering to grace daily in small moments. 2) There is power in obedience that I easily forget about. God moves and blesses and works in and through my obedience.
It's not one of our favorite words, that's for sure. It seems to rob us of autonomy and independence. Sort of marginalizes our grand plans and finely honed abilitites. I was reminded this week though, that obedience is the evidence of faith. So here's to celebrating less of me and more of Him. Less plotting, more obeying.
