The path that we are called to is narrow and the Bible is very explicit about how the Christian life is filled with suffering. As believers, we believe when Jesus said that "No one comes to the father except through me". Many Christians openly claim salvation, but how many are willing to be obedient when there is suffering involved? Don't get me wrong, I'm all about that eternal life. I'm all about those blessings too. However, I notice that it's hard for me to want to obey when something doesn't make sense to me or gets me out of my comfort zone. That's why I love and hate EV, because whenever I feel like God is asking me to go talk to a person I'm always like: "Ahhhhhhhhhh, dangit. Ok, fine" - but I have so many testimonies of how God has used those encounters!
Obedience shouldn't be whenever it is most convenient to us, but instead should be with EVERYTHING and ANYTHING God asks us to do. Like the prophet Jeremiah, who had specific instructions to do the awkward task of rebuking an entire people:
“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the Lord. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word. Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done."
Jeremiah 26:2-3
Let's not be people who just say yes to the things that make the most sense or are the easiest to say yes to, but let's be people who have the mindset of saying yes before God even asks!
Obedience shouldn't be whenever it is most convenient to us, but instead should be with EVERYTHING and ANYTHING God asks us to do. Like the prophet Jeremiah, who had specific instructions to do the awkward task of rebuking an entire people:
“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the Lord. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word. Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done."
Jeremiah 26:2-3
Let's not be people who just say yes to the things that make the most sense or are the easiest to say yes to, but let's be people who have the mindset of saying yes before God even asks!
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