OBEDIENCE

Whether you are 1 or 51, obedience is hard. Why? usually because obedience requires us to do something we are not particularly keen on. I have not usually encountered many circumstances where obedience is just so easy.
I am learning obedience, and have been for quite some time. Obedience takes trust. Trust in whom you are being obedient to, to listen and obey because you trust that the on you are obeying knows best.
Let me tell you something my friends, I am learning, that God knows best. It has been a long time struggle with me, to give up control, and offer Him my complete obedience. To trust that regardless of the state my current conditions in life, even if I'm not pleased with them i have to trust that God knows best.
All we can do, is plant our gardens and wait for God to do the tending.
In obedience I act, and do all that God has given me the power to and from that point on, the outcomes are in the Fathers hands.
Are you wishing for healing? God calls us to gather, pray and offer up our requests before the Lord.
Are you depressed? He tells you he will turn your mourning into dancing.
"You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy." Psalm 30:11
Is life uncertain? Calm, because He is certain, and that is all we need to know.
He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." -Hebrews 13:8
Are you afraid? He is the calmer of your storms and great protector, which is why we are called to put on the full armor of God.
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God." -Ephes 6:10

Why list all these things about God and who He to us? Because once we see all that He is and what He does for us, we have more faith in trust to obey Him with undivided faith and complete and utter obedience, knowing that His way is the only way.
And once you believe that you really know that you know that you know that He IS. Than in the storms, trials and struggles we can say, "I trust you," and be able to say that over and over every time the thoughts of distrust enter into our minds.
And then, we can step out in faith and do our acts of obedience.
I think deep down my desires have always been to be under His authority, as people we want direction. We say we want complete control, but when we have it, or feel as though we do, it's scary, don't you think? Because now, who calls the shots? you do. What if you call the wrong shot? what happens when your in trouble, who do you cry "help me!" to. When your in control, your "it" for you. So if it's "you" that is in the trouble, then you are going to have a bit of hard time getting "you" out of trouble. Not so when God is control.
So today, I choose God. Today, I choose His path, His plans and His last word goes. My obedience is an act of worship to God, and a way to bring more glory to God, and I have heard it said that, "the greatest work of God is when the Savior gives spiritual sight resulting in belief and worship of Jesus."
And over the past year, my sight has become clearer and clearer and today I claim that sight. To God be the glory.