Today we are reminded that blessing and obedience go hand-in-hand. We are happy to be blessed but much slower to obey in order to get this blessing. It's funny that our view of a gracious and loving Jesus distorts the fact that obedience is essential to a fulfilled life. Why? Well why do we think that despite acknowledgement of our sin, which is essentially thinking that we know best, that we still want to direct our own lives and take our own decisions, the very thing that brought sin into the world.
The absence of sin is simply saying, "Father, what should I do now?". That is obedience! Not slavish obedience which says, "Go away and do that for me now" but obedience like an apprentice asking their master how to do something, recognising that the master knows and can impart his knowledge to his under-study.
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