There
is this beautiful hymn we sometimes sing:
Trust and Obey
For there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus
But
to trust and Obey.
If
you are not finding happiness (fulfillment) in Jesus, it has nothing to do with
satan, neither does it have anything to do with the challenges you are facing,
but it does have everything to do with “trust and obedience”, and until you
come to that point where it finally dawns on you that you need to trust and
obey God, fulfillment in life will elude you. That is, You will be unable to
find fulfillment in Jesus.
As
a believer, your real focus should be having fulfillment in Jesus and being
fulfilled.
- Beyond the desired result is fulfillment, which should be the ultimate or starting point.
- In between trust and obedience is knowledge. You cannot trust whom you do not know and you will not bother to inquire of who you do not trust; neither can you obey what you do not know.
- The evidence of true knowledge is this: for a person-trust, for the word-obedience. The answer to most of our prayers is instructions.
- There are some things you are doing that you have to stop doing and there some things you are not doing that you have to stop doing.
What
is trust? A firm belief in, reliability, honesty, veracity, justice, strength
etc of a person or thing.
To lean
on, be confident of, to put one’s confidence in.
To hope (Nah.1:7).
You cannot fake trusting God. When you trust Him, He becomes your stronghold. (Is.26:3)
If
you truly trust God, you will obey Him, because your trust in God finds
expression in your obeying Him.
What
is obedience? Act or practice or quality submission to another’s rule. It also
means compliance with law and command.
You can only find fulfillment in the life
of obedience. That’s why the
greatest sacrifice you can offer is obedience. Even your receiving from God is
tied to keeping His commandments and doing what is pleasing in His sight. (1 John 3:22)
You
must keep all of God’s commandments. When you go aside from each one, you go
farther from blessing and fulfillment, but the reverse is the case when you are
fulfilling them.
Some
Examples Of Those In Scripture Who Trusted And Obeyed God: The Resultant
Effect.
Noah:
Genesis 6:22, 7:23. He trusted in
what God said completely.
Abraham:
Genesis 22:1-3, 12-17
Joshua:
Josh. 11:15
God
is committed to fulfilling His part of the covenant when you fulfill your own
part. “And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he
sware to give unto their fathers… and the Lord gave them rest roundabout… there
failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of
Israel; all came to pass.” (Josh. 21:43-45)
Obedience positions you to receive from
God. It is a life of obedience that will bring you to a place of
distinguishing; and when you comply with the laws of God, you are forbidding a
life of struggles.
