in my life i know that the moments where um i was probably the most disobedient you know it started
because i had not yet fully received the love of god and so how simple that is like if you love me
you will keep my commandments and i think that when we read it the way lisa you talked about
it changes everything and it breaks off the chain of religion because it says that if
when you struggle with obedience you have not yet come into the perfection of my love when it
talks about perfect love cast out all fear and so when we're struggling with things there's a
fear of the unknown feel of uncertainty fear of looking stupid fear of not winning the battle
all this stuff but it's rooted in fear and so there is a love of jesus that when that is
the foundation that everything else flows with ease and so in my life i recognize that when i
struggled with i don't think i want to do that i had not yet received the love of god in a manner
that was healing and in a manner that i could actually rely and rest on it to add to that i
think it's a trust issue sometimes i think we don't trust that god has our best interests at
heart and we do see him sometimes like a task master you must follow me keep my commands that
sounds such a strong word but his commandment like holly said he boiled them down to two
love me love people but i think it's a trust issue and i think every time i've
not wanted to obey is because i feel like he's asking too much of me and is it going to end in
failure is it going to end in me looking silly so ultimately there's a pride issue in my life
because i'm not wanting to just surrender my rights and lay it down trusting that the god
who saved me loves me has purpose for me you know right back from the garden i mean he put
a commandment there for our protection and so that our lives would be blessed but disobedience
actually made us independent from god and that independence now has actually disrupted the
beautiful flow of if you follow my teaching you'll be blessed if you disobey they'll be cursing not
because i want to punish you and i hate you but actually the consequence of disobedience is always
destruction and so i think we need to know that we can trust god that when he asks us to do something
it's actually for our benefit and for those that are around us you know i love that because um
because i believe that if there's no obedience and there's no foundation you know god says
if you love me you'll keep my commandments you'll you'll do what i ask and the protection
is there the protection because he knows that only in him are we able to
grow and live and have our being without god without without with you know we can all play the
part we can all um dress like it and look like it and act you know but if we're not actually doing
it if we're not actually self-sacrificing to obey what god tells us then that just leads to death
and there's and and god knows that because he made it all so uh it that that protection is there and
i love this quote it says obedience is the organ through which intimacy with god is obtained and um
and and i love that it's like the man who built his house on solid rock and when the winds came
it stood firm the winds blew and and it was a solid foundation and i think that
just comes from obedience to god's word i love what you said lori um you know i think about
and y'all don't get freaked out i remember reading that the first commandment in the satanic bible
was do what thou wilt do your own will do whatever you want be self-driven self-motivated it said
whether it's good or bad just just do do it your own way and i think too many people right
now think that the obedience factor is going to actually limit their life but the book of isaiah
tells us that god said i will show you the way i work what does he do he he works strength in our
life he works faith in our life he works endurance in our life every time i have chosen obedience
it's because i trusted god when i didn't actually understand why i should do it it didn't make any
sense but it it actually affirmed my relationship so god shows us the way he works so that you and i
can live the way we are made wow we are made to have a obedient relationship with a living god
we are not supposed to be just obeying tablets of stone we're supposed to have this incredible brand
new heart that's tender you know i remember the day i got born again all of a sudden everything
looked different sounded different felt different i went into my college dorm room i'm like jesus i
need you to stay in the hall we got some bad stuff in there that i need to i need to throw out you
know but but but i didn't nobody said you got bad stuff nobody said that but when you get born again
god fixes an impossible problem we have a heart of stone we have a wicked deceptive heart
and he takes out that heart of stone he puts in a heart of flesh and not just any spirit but ezekiel
tells us he puts his holy spirit in us and i've just found any time i listen to the holy spirit
i have this sensitivity and i flow and anytime i'm like no i'm going to do it my way i end up
not hearing the voice of god and getting confused until i wrap myself back into a place of obedience
i hope you enjoyed this video subscribe today and you'll never miss a new upload and don't
forget to check out our better together shop thanks for being a part of our community