When God told Abraham to leave his father’s household, He didn’t tell him to let Lot follow him. But Abraham allowed his nephew to follow him. Until they parted ways, Abraham never saw the promised land by revelation. Don’t carry unnecessary load on you when obeying God; it’ll be a distraction later on.
God knew you before bringing you into the world. So when He provides you leadership and says, “submit to Me,” it’s not because He wants to cage your life. No! It’s because He knows what is best for you, far beyond your knowledge.
When Apostle Paul said this to the Ephesian church, he was speaking from a spiritual-fatherly perspective. He told them to obey their shepherds in the Lord. But when it came to the biological parents, he said they should honour them (Ephesians 6:2). Why? Because Paul knew not all biological parents are also spiritual parents to their children.
If the wise men had disobeyed God, baby Jesus would have been killed by Herod. The saviour of man wouldn’t have executed His divine mandate — that is, taking away the sin of the world (John 1:29). That also means there would be nothing like salvation, and people would have continued wallowing in sin worse than today. One simple obedience has collaborated to billions of people having access to salvation today and counting.
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When you don’t understand why God tells you to do something, it’s not the time to complain to Him. You only have to do it as you trust Him. See, God isn’t only your heavenly Father. He’s also your leader. That means there are things He knows that you don’t know, and just because you don’t know something doesn’t give you the audacity to disobey Him.
What trouble have you gotten into because you mishandled your money to disobey God? You should thank Him that you’re still alive today because that means He hasn’t given up on you. Come to Jesus today!
Complaints don’t solve problems; responding to them with the right actions do. When God gives you one uncommon instruction to help you deal with your issue, obey before complaining.
It is possible to learn obedience as a Christian. And one of the ways to do it is by enduring suffering.
God didn’t give the wise men a reason not to return to Herod. He simply gave them an instruction to use another route, and they obeyed, ending up in saving Jesus’s life from attempt to be killed by Herod.
