for me when i think about obedience you know i recognize like no matter what in life
you we are we we're living in the in the state of obedience to something
because i think about the scripture that says you know as a man thinks so is he
and so when you talk about the holy spirit is that now i am navigating my life in alignment with the
voice of truth but sometimes i think that the word obedience brings on this idea of losing control
or i don't want to submit my life to god type of thing but then we have to recognize that we are
always in the state of obedience because we're living our lives according to whatever voice
you know whether it's the voices that shaped you when you were younger the voice of culture
the voice of social media that everything has its voice but then the holy spirit that i his
voice is actually what's connected to my truth so in being obedient to that it's not coming to
into that awareness that okay this is the this is the closest thing actually this is the only thing
that can reveal me this is the only thing that is truly for me that will protect me
that would guide me and i think that when we start recognizing the reality that we are naturally in
the state of obedience then it's easier to say now i want to bring that submission under the lordship
of jesus no that that's a very that's a really good point that we're we are yielded somewhere
right so there is something that we are yielded to whether it's our desires our wants the you
know culture so that that was a really good point you know that um i think there's this
uh notion perhaps that the only way we can obey god is if we get a direct word from him like lisa
you got a word from uh a prophet or me feeling the the spirit of god on the inside challenging me
about hugging my husband but honestly the the most direction i get from god comes from his word it
comes from opening the bible and letting his word speak to me it doesn't have to be this cloud that
descends or somebody speaking to it's his word right i feel like his word is um you know how when
you drive on the freeway there are those guard rails especially when you're on like a mountain
pass you know and then they keep you from falling off right maybe the it looks beautiful down there
but you don't want to fall down there and i feel like his word oftentimes is like that it guards us
and and so obeying his word keeps us headed where we want to go i remember reading this verse in
proverbs and just you know i kind of read through one of the proverbs every day it's just kind of
my thing and so reading through one of them and it and i was reading through some translation
it probably was the message and uh it said answering before listening is both stupid and rude
and i just went okay i have been stupid and rude right because i
just think listen i i am so impatient hurry up and finish the sentences because or i'll finish
it for you right i'm just like get on with this but again i read that and realized okay holly
if i'm gonna let the word of god teach me put that guard rail then it's gonna challenge me
about listening first and so for me that was just one of the steps of obedience and i'm not always
that successful i'll be honest about that but i just think maybe we start there right like letting
his word give us direction so that we're not looking so out here because then we can get crazy
come on there are crazy christians out there right who are looking out here when maybe step one is
just opening the bible and letting god's word right be that guardrail right yes hallelujah
if we could all do that i totally agree with that i think it's astounding to me the lack of
literacy in the word therefore people are going their own way and i was actually sharing about
this at church the other day you know my truth um right you know because there is the way
the truth that brings the life and no one comes to the father but by me says
says jesus in john and you know and yet we've got oh no there's many ways to god and then there's
there's my truth and then there's my interpretation of the truth and i
love this about the word of god this is like our instruction manual but it's not a rule book it's
an instruction manual and you know i was telling this story about how my husband who was building
a basketball hoop for my son for christmas last christmas and while he's reading the instruction
he's following the instructions at one point he's like these instructions are wrong and i'm like
i don't think they are like i don't i don't yeah i don't think they are and he's like at least
he was yeah these instructions are wrong yeah at least he was reading them right but but i go down
there and so then i because let's be honest out of the two of us he really is the smarter person in
our family so i just submit to that and i go well okay so then i help him make this basketball hoop
without the instructions and we built this thing and we built it and it was it looked great at the
end of it and we put it down on the porch and we were so excited to show taylor the next morning
and christmas comes he comes downstairs and taylor who is like jesus lisa will attest to this because
he's so sweet and he will never get angry my kid has never thrown a tantrum true stories
never got angry at us i'm like who are you and um he just looks at henry and he's like well dad
um the base of the basketball hoop shouldn't be at the front it needs to be at the back and so every
time he threw it a basketball it would ricochet off the bottom of the base and fly off the ravine
and so he's like i can't and and i use that not to throw my husband under the bus but just to go the
instructions are there not to bind you they're there to actually follow the way because the
creator knows how we work best right and so when you just open the word of god and realize that
the school scripture is god-breathed useful for teaching correcting exhorting like
helping us we realize that if we just open the word there is every instruction for
us to live a very blessed life but when we go no i think that's wrong
it ends in a dysfunction you know so i i agree wholeheartedly with just open the word of god
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