Why is obedience important to my spiritual life?
Today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse! You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today. You will receive a curse if your reject the commands of the Lord your God and turn from his way by worshipping foreign gods. -Deuteronomy 11:26-28 NLT
If you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me. -Exodus 19:5 NLT
"Those who obey my commandments are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them, and I will love them."-John 14:21 NLT
(God's Daily Promises Newsletter)
---I think that obedience in today's society is something that is almost frowned upon because so many people are trying to be completely independant. Accept responsibility for your actions and give others the respect that they deserve! Especiallly Jesus!
What do you think?
2006-07-01 19:42:58 · 10 answers · asked by SarahJane 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was just studying obedience in the Bible today. I went to 1Peter chapter1:14 and 15 and 16.(14) As obedient children,not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. (15) But as He has called you HOLY, so be HOLY in all manner of conversation.(16) Because it is written, Be Holy for I am HOLY. We must take obedience and walking Holy before Him seriously.....He is an awesome God and worthy to be obeyed, not because we have to but because we love Him and want to..... Blessings
2006-07-01 19:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by hearts 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I will only offer perfect obedience to a perfect entity.
Jesus and the judeo-christian god to not appear to me to be perfect entities.
Thus, I shall not be completely obedient to them.
One must offer respect to each entity as that entity has shown itself worthy of respect.
One must also, whether they like it or not, think for themselves, independently.
Even in choosing to follow the commands printed in the King James version of the Bible, you are making a choice to do so.
You are choosing, independently, to obey.
The trick is to only obey an entity or a set of commands to the extent that that entity or those commands are perfect.
I experience no higher 'blessing' than the opportunity to think freely.
:-)
2006-07-02 02:50:51 · answer #2 · answered by energeticthinker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From being an infant to adulthood we learn about obedience. Its part of living and getting along in this world. Don't obey and see how far you will go. Being obedience to Our God, giving Him the reverence He expects brings untold blessings on you.
Its in the volume of the Book.
2006-07-02 02:51:47 · answer #3 · answered by CEM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Jesus is the way and the truth and the life, and no one will enter to the Father's House except through Jesus. You do not have to be a bad person to miss heaven, just ignorant to the way and to the truth and to the life...
When you let Jesus into your heart, you want to surrender your life to His care. I pray for His wisdom. I trust that He knows what is the best for me. It is different to believe Him, and to put your whole faith in Him. As Jesus was tempted in the earth, so will we be tempted. Satan is trying his very best to destroy our natural connection with God. "You do not have to do what God asks you to do.." etc.He did not promise an easy way, but that is the only way...and I want to follow Him.
2006-07-02 02:59:48 · answer #4 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you say that we are given the chocie between a blesing or a curse..a heaven or a hell i suppsoe...to me that isnt a choice...its a threat.
that is the wquivalent of a bully saying "give me your lunchmoney or ill beat you up" you COULD look at it that the bully is giving you the choice between releasing your money or suffering pain.
i see no difference between what you said and my bully example.
you basically beleive in god because of that threat. you choose to be obedient because you dont want to be sent to hell. you are forced into beleving in your god because you dont want this curse you speak of.
forcing someone to beleive in you by threatening them IS obedience...its forced obedience.
2006-07-02 02:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by johnny_zondo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OBEDIENCE is the very best thing to show that u believe ... Doing it happily what the Lord commands. :)
2006-07-02 03:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by princely a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am fully obedient to my conscience and my sense of right and wrong. I find them to be more foolproof and reliable than books written thousands of years ago.
2006-07-02 03:03:28 · answer #7 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You say that like independence is a bad thing.
2006-07-02 02:49:41 · answer #8 · answered by Zombie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Freethought!!!?
2006-07-02 02:46:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think yer NLT is a perversion rather than a version of the Holy Bible, because it mirrorly reverses JC to CJ in Romans 6:11 and it end focuses on the Lord Jesus rather than on our Lord Jesus Christ. Not to mention it distorts the theme of the New Testament in Matthew 1:1, which in the Authorized version states the NT is about the (singular) "generation" of Jesus Christ, as opposed to the (plural) "generations" of Adam in the OT. Not to mention JC is the only foundation laid, and peace with God (eternal life thereof) is notably "through J->C", the C thereof being "the end of the law", and "our peace who hath abolished the law".
Mirrorly the reverse would end focus on J of C->J, which is to end focus on "division" rather than on peace. For "Jesus" flat out stated he did not come to bring peace, no, but rather division: Mt 10:34; Lk 12:51; And there was "division" (not peace) among the people because of him: Jn 7:43. We are to mark and avoid them which cause divisions: Rom 16:17.
Furthermore blessing and cursing ought not to come out the same mouth, for such would be as both sweet and bitter coming from the same fountain: James 3; which is to allegory say grace and law are as contrary as blessing and cursing(the curse of the law), even as contrary as life and death.
So what you're talking is not spiritual life nor obedience to grace, but spiritual death by obedience to law; Not righteousness, but lefteousness; Not eternal salvation, but eternal damnation of being saved and destroyed after by grace plus law added; Not peace with God in heaven, but division of God also in heavens.
Perhaps you haven't noted it's "allegory" in both "covenants", and "mystery" (noted over 20 times) to solve, in time, lest all(the KofG within you) perish by yer using of ordinances rather than none perish by the pure grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Perhaps, due to yer NLT perversion, you haven't noticed the God(Majesty) on high (Heb 1:3) is located in plural and divided "heavens" (Heb 8:1); Whereas God in (singular) "heaven" (located "higher than the heavens") is above such left/right division, above such a sides war having shameful side effects to both left/right sides of such scape-goats vs dumb-sheep playing a blame game which inducts them all (of them vs them who "oppose themselves") into a hall of shame rather than a hall of fame. Not to mention the Son of Man has one thing in store for both sides, for "them all" of such them vs them; And it's notably destruction which destroyed them all, notably as it was in the (plural) days of Noe: Lk 17. Hence we find "Christ": "the end of the law" appeared unto God in "heaven" for "us" (not for either of them vs them). For God hath given "us" the victory, and it's notably "through Jesus->Christ", which notably end focuses on C of J->C, not on J of C->J; And on the pure grace of J->C, not on the perverted and divisional grace of J.
To wit, "that God"(of this/that Gods) was in "Christ"(of J->C) reconciling the world unto himself(all light and no darkness at all, which is to allegory say all grace and no law at all), NOT (law) imputing their trespasses(sins) unto them. And that God, in Christ(the end of the law: Rom 10:4), hath commited unto us the word("grace") of reconciliation: 2Cor 5:19
Perhaps you haven't noted only "mercy" is obtainable at the throne of "grace"; Not both mercy and sacrifice of both grace and law. For the will of God is "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice", which is to allegory say I will have grace and not law, thereby mercy and not sacrifice, thereby peace and not division; And the "not" part of what God will have and not have is notably not then, not now, not ever: Ps 40:6; Ps 51:16; Hos 6:6; Mt 9:13; Mt 12:7; Heb 10:all. God, the only true God of false/true Gods, never desired nor ever took pleasure in any sacrifice for sin, because such is "by the law" and "of the law". Which is to say "the God of all grace" is no law at all, just as that God is light having no darkness at all. For the end God declared from the beginning is let there by light(only), not darkness nor both light and darkness; Which is to allegory say let there be grace(only), since grace is "the blessed and only Potentate", of such law law vs His Grace.
The "grace" of "our" Lord "Jesus Christ" with you all. Amen.
2006-07-02 11:40:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋