An Inconvenient Obedience

Today's devotion by First 5 really opened my eyes to the idea of obedience. Often times we want obedience to God to be convenient. We fear stepping out of our comfort zone always and hope that we can be obedient and serve God where we are right now.

But the reading in Joshua 5:1-9 painted a different picture about obedience. The Israelites were now in enemy and they were now called to stop doing everything and be circumcised. God doesn't want us to conqure lands or do this and that for Him. He wants us to be set apart to Him.

God doesn't promise that our obedience to Him will make sense to us. He has never said living for Him will be convenient or painless. What He does promise, though, is that He loves us, He is with us and we can trust Him. God is now and forever worthy of our obedience. And if He asks something of us, we must know it holds eternal significance.

I fear the unknown. Fear of stepping out of my comfort zone and following God wholeheartedly. Fear that I am not good enough to do the new work that God has called me to do. But yet it is this fear that I need to let go and let God be on the throne of my life.

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Day 8

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