The Blissfulness Of Obedience
DAILY VITAMIN
- The Blissfulness of Obedience
"If you know these things, blessed and happy and to be envied are you if you practice them [if you act accordingly and really do them]." (John 13:17 AMP)
Most times, I just wonder how it would have felt when Joseph called his son the name Jesus. He knew that was God's chosen name; not only that, he had also received directives to call the child that name; so indirectly he was accomplishing three things at a time.
First, he was naming his first son.
Second he was obeying God's command.
Third, he was ushering the Messiah into the earth with His name given from above. I'm sure Joseph would have felt great within; perhaps as we do whenever we fulfill God's bidding to us.
There is something ecstatic about the act of obeying God. It gives us this inner peace and assurance. It takes away the 'egg' feeling.
A peculiar feature about the egg is its property of fragility. Wherever it may be, it stands a 99.9% chance of getting damaged. A single touch may result to a whole lot of cracks: and that is insecurity.
When we live in disobedience, we have this feeling of insecurity- feeling insecure at home, away from home, until nowhere begins to feel like home. A perfect example in relation to this is Jonah. After he disobeyed the Nineveh call, right on his getaway ship he still felt insecure; though he slept but when the storm started, he just knew it had to be for him on the negative. But compare that to Jesus whom always lived according to God's will; when the storm came, He knew that it might be for Him, yet on the positive- that is, for His honour and God's glory.
That's what obedience does; it makes us see all things on the bright side, knowing that He who said ''Blessed is he, who keeps this (His) word'' would always there to sustain you.
Hence, do your soul a whole lot of good today by learning to obey God; for by doing so, you keep it in bliss.....
- The Blissfulness of Obedience
"If you know these things, blessed and happy and to be envied are you if you practice them [if you act accordingly and really do them]." (John 13:17 AMP)
Most times, I just wonder how it would have felt when Joseph called his son the name Jesus. He knew that was God's chosen name; not only that, he had also received directives to call the child that name; so indirectly he was accomplishing three things at a time.
First, he was naming his first son.
Second he was obeying God's command.
Third, he was ushering the Messiah into the earth with His name given from above. I'm sure Joseph would have felt great within; perhaps as we do whenever we fulfill God's bidding to us.
There is something ecstatic about the act of obeying God. It gives us this inner peace and assurance. It takes away the 'egg' feeling.
A peculiar feature about the egg is its property of fragility. Wherever it may be, it stands a 99.9% chance of getting damaged. A single touch may result to a whole lot of cracks: and that is insecurity.
When we live in disobedience, we have this feeling of insecurity- feeling insecure at home, away from home, until nowhere begins to feel like home. A perfect example in relation to this is Jonah. After he disobeyed the Nineveh call, right on his getaway ship he still felt insecure; though he slept but when the storm started, he just knew it had to be for him on the negative. But compare that to Jesus whom always lived according to God's will; when the storm came, He knew that it might be for Him, yet on the positive- that is, for His honour and God's glory.
That's what obedience does; it makes us see all things on the bright side, knowing that He who said ''Blessed is he, who keeps this (His) word'' would always there to sustain you.
Hence, do your soul a whole lot of good today by learning to obey God; for by doing so, you keep it in bliss.....
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