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YOU ARE A CHILD OF OBEDIENCE
“so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”
2 Corinthians 2:11 (ESV)
Disobedience to God is not automatic. One demonstrates disobedience when doubt, disbelief, and deception have fully germinated.
The adversary contributes to your disobedience through deception. He knows your disobedience will distract you from manifesting God’s glory.
To disobey is to act outside the faith. Obedience is to hear under faith. When one obeys God’s word, it is an act of faith. Obedience to God is proof of honour.
The adversary knows when you walk in disobedience you will walk outside the will of God for your life.
Men don’t always attribute their disobedience to God as anything wrong or evil. And even some acts of disobedience to God in some contexts may seem to be a good thing in others.
It may be something all men celebrate or will applaud you for, but it will be disobedience to God.
King Saul’s decision to disobey the Lord’s instruction on how to handle the battle with the Amalekites cost him his throne. He was a man after His own desires, but not the counsel of the Lord. He decided to keep the animals which were to be destroyed as spoils of war and for sacrificial offerings.
He even spared the life of King Agag as a showcase of his victory. But that wasn’t what God wanted. Even though, in the natural and religious sense, it looks like Saul did the right thing. Because offering sacrifices to the Lord was the right thing to do. But God’s response through Prophet Samuel wasn’t what Saul expected:
“But Samuel replied,
“What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshipping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NLT)
Saul did what he did to satisfy his own interest. But that was a demonstration of ego and arrogance.
Always see your obedience to God, as an act of faith.
Saul (Paul the Apostle), acted differently with the Lord’s instruction. He said, “Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision” Acts 26:19 (KJV).
This was his response to the instructions he received from the Lord Jesus as he encountered Him on his way to Damascus to persecute the believers.
When you were born again, you came into the obedience of faith. Christ’s obedience became your obedience. And you were supplied with the ability of God to continue in the reality of His obedience. To obey the Lord is no longer mechanical but organic because God works in you both to will and to do (Philippians 2:13).
As a born-again, you don’t live under the rule of the devil. You are not his servant. Therefore, you don’t yield and obey his voice. You are no longer part of the children of disobedience.
It is the unsaved who is referred to as the son of disobedience.
“in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” Ephesians 2:2 (NKJV)
You are now an obedient child of God because of Jesus Christ’s obedience.
Look at what Peter the Apostle said:
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance” 1 Peter 1:14 (ESV).
Don’t believe in the deception of the devil that you are not an obedient child of God.
The spirit of disobedience doesn’t have any authority over you. You are an obedient child of God and have the capacity to respond rightly to the Lord’s instructions.
Selah.
Isaiah 40-42
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