Exodus 19:5 "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:"
When we give God lordship over our lives, we are committing to a life of obedience to Him, to His will, and to His ways. How often we tend to renegotiate the terms of our commitment to him as soon as His will cramps our style or dents our pride. How good we are at justifying disobedience, down playing it as we try to draw attention to our attempts at "sacrificial" Christian living. To obey is better than sacrifice, Samuel told Saul, when Saul tried to invent a better plan to honor God than the one he had been told to follow. We need to be careful not to fall into Saul's mentality of creating a sacrifice that suits us, in lieu of plain obedience to what God has told us.
Obedience is not an option, if we want the blessing of God, and want to enjoy a relationship with Him. we must obey and learn to trust that He always have our best interest at heart. If we the people would obey Him, then we would be God's "treasured possession" out of all the nations on the earth. God promised that we would continue to see deliverance from the enemy, along with His miraculous provisions, if we would continue to obey Him. It's all too easy for us to neglect issues of obedience as we get mired down in our day to day living. Yet if we haven't been faithful to do what He last told us, how can we expect additional guidance to benefit us? If we can't be faithful over the little, how can we expect to be trusted with the many. We need to be diligent to obey for this is better than any sacrifice in fact it is the ultimate sacrifice, the surrender of self.
So don't let anything and anyone cause you to be disobedient, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Run on to see what the ends going to bring, for obedience is better than sacrifice.
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