Prayer – Lord Jesus, You want us to be like You…obedient. Reveal Yourself to us in ways we don’t expect it…and help us to walk obediently in Your footsteps…even if it means we have a cross to bear.
Those
who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because
they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself
to each of them. John
14:21 NLT
And
this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from
the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. 2 John 1:6 NIV
Meditate.
Consider God’s love and your obedience.
Walk
in obedience as you travel along your life’s path. Where are you walking? It
does matter where we go and it is imperative that we go in obedience to the
Lord. God wants us to walk in love…and to be headed towards Him, not away from
Him. Not every path will lead us to live, prosper and prolong our days here in
God’s land…where we are until He returns or we die, but the choice is our—where
we walk, with whom we walk and why we walk at all.
So Moses told the people, "You
must be careful to obey all the commands of the LORD your God, following his
instructions in every detail. Stay on the path that the LORD your God has
commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the
land you are about to enter and occupy." Deuteronomy 5:32-33
How joyful are those who fear the
LORD—all who follow his ways! (who walk in obedience to him.) Psalm 128:1
The key
word seems to be obedience. Obey is listed 338 times in the NLT Bible. That is
a word that Jesus was not only personally familiar with in His relationship to
our Father, uses it to encourage those who follow Him. Obey…
Those who accept my commandments
and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love
me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of
them." John
14:21 (Underlined for emphasis.)
How are
you walking…where are you going…with whom do you walk? The choice is yours.
Verse
of Salvation ~ Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of
the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You
live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more. For you
remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2
Walk
in a grateful way—giving Thanks to God.
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