FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience to the word of God is to live life for God.
Genesis 22
What kind of a believer are you?
Is it your desire to live for God?
Are you questioning why the promises of God do not have a place in your life?
To claim the promise of God comes with a condition.
With God, the condition to claim His promises demands to live a life of obedience to His command, His word.
Obediently, live life as obedient to the word of God.
In the journey of life, live by the command of God.
Are you living a life of obedience or disobedience?
Obedience to God will drive the obedient one to arrive at the divine assignment, but disobedience will derail not to reach as expected before God.
Abraham lived a life of obedience to the word of God.
God called him out of his land and his family when he answered obediently God.
The test of God for Abraham was his obedience in answering the calling to go and sacrifice Isaac, his son. Genesis 22:1-3 records: “Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.”
The obedience of Abraham counted as a faith that positioned him for the divine assignment. (Hebrews 11:8)
Abraham obeyed; he could not fail before God but was able to claim the promises of God for his life. (Hebrews 11:17)
Just like Abraham, all should give themselves to live by the word of God with no excuse not to live by His word.
In the journey of life, there is no reasonable excuse for disobedience to God.
Claiming to be living a life of obedience is easier said than done.
Live a life of obedience before God that sees all ways of life under heaven.
To live a life with the fear of God is encased in the humble and become obedient to God continually.
The word of God will cause tenderness of heart to be a place for humility.
Without humility, obedience is not possible.
Philippians 2:8 record the experience of Jesus when He walked through the earth, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
The humble ones know to fear God.
Do you fear God in deed and truth?
To be lost from the word of God will be disobedient to lose the rightful position in God.
Prayer for today: Pray to Know God, to fear Him.