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Heartfelt Obedience

I always think it's neat when I can see God moving in my life.

For me lately, everything I'm reading in my bible (as I attempt to go cover-to-cover in 90 days), all the sermons I'm hearing and the topics from our Friday night bible study group, are all pointing to the same thing.

A total, heartfelt obedience to God. Like my blog post here.

This past week, I finally hit that moment of surrender.

And was it ever freeing.

God gave me such a cool picture to go along with it- but that's just for me and Him for now.

But surrender is only the first step- now I need to walk that out.

Doing ALL the things He asks me to and NOT doing those things that He says not to.

I feel overwhelmed by it all. Where do I start?

However, those thoughts are mine, not His.

Surrender is listening for the next instruction and then doing it. And then repeating the whole listening/doing thing for the rest of my life.

It's laying down my agenda for what I want to do/accomplish each day and taking up God's agenda.

This is hard to do when you look around and see 'chaos' all around you. Projects left unfinished. Dinner dishes still in the sink waiting to be loaded into the dishwasher. A school year to be planned and started.

But when you think about it, really, what eternal value do any of those things have?

Then think about heartfelt obedience- what eternal value can be placed on that?

Which one should we spend our time and effort on and which one should be set aside?

It takes putting on our spiritual eyes to see things for what they really are.

I Cor. 13:12 states, "We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!" (The Msg)

This is where we're at. Where I'm at.

That's why Heb. 12:2 tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus so that we will see what really matters and let the rest fall away.

Keeping it real, by the grace of God...
Tammy
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