obedience

What Is Godliness? Part Two

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Remember what happened when Moses encountered two exact situations? In Exodus 17 the children of Israel had no water. In verse 6 the Lord instructed Moses. “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out…”

In Numbers 20 they again had no water. In verse 8 the Lord told Moses, “…speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water…” Moses was angry at the people’s complaining and in ungodliness he disobeyed the Lord.

Verse 11 says, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly…” Yet, his act of independence from the Lord cost him. Verse 12 says, “…Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

The Path Of Grace

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Philippians 2:8 says of Jesus, “…He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 

Trials test our obedience as they build our endurance. Think of Abram. God appeared to him and said, “…Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.:” Genesis 12:1. 

Catch verse 4. It says, “So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him…Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.” In obedience he packed up everything, and with his family and livestock headed out to follow God. I moved lock stock and barrel in 2004 to take care of my parents 24/7. I left my friends and church family to follow the Lord’s leading.

The path of obedience is strewn with grace. As we follow the Lord, we walk in His footsteps. Psalm 85:13. He always goes before us to prepare the way.