If you're a parent, you'll be able to relate.
Has your child ever done something, perhaps something even dangerous, that made you want to HUG them to yourself AND discipline them at the same time?!
I imagine that's how my Heavenly Father feels about me sometimes.
Know the feeling when you get the most gentle, tender SLAP spiritually?
I am CALLED to obedience....Obedience to Christ which may cost me everything and yet gain Life.
------ From a devotional Dad sends out daily-----
But Samuel replied: "Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams."
Considering the volume of prayer that is ascending these days, rivers of blessing should be flowing throughout our land. That no such results are in evidence should not discourage us; rather it should stir us to discover why our prayers do not often find ready answers.
I believe our problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying; and it simply will not work.
Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His children that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for blessing while ignoring or actually flouting the plain teachings laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.
--A.W. Tozer, Of God and Men, pp55-57 (edited)
We Christians seem to have the most baffling propensity to fritter away the blessings that God bestows upon us, only later to be filled with a terrible remorse. And then, when we see the things that are most dear to us slipping away, we would gladly give anything to change our sad circumstances. But that moment we come to learn that there is nothing we can offer God that can become a substitute for simple obedience.
--Paul LeBoutillier
1 comment:
Thanks for posting this! Good reminders! I hope you are feeling better.
I noticed you changed your blog title again - and I finally realized that when you said PTA earlier it probably meant Andy's program not the Parent-teacher-association! Duh! I can't believe I didn't get that at first. But then again, an honest mistake cause in Marshall's world of public school I am all too familiar with the PTA - they are always doing fundraisers and wanting your money! :-)
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