Observed Obedience

 

    Sin is a natural state for humans.  You inherited the desire to sin.  However, God calls you to be obedient.  It is an internal battle that will drain you until you learn how to submit and change your desires.  With sin comes death.  Death is one of the only certainties of life.  How you spend your life is your choice.  You can allow sin and death to consume you like cancer to the point where you spend eternity in torment.  Or you can choose obedience that starts with salvation and have eternal paradise.

    Learning how to be obedient is not as simple as it sounds.  It starts with salvation.  Then you learn how to submit by learning who God is.  As you understand His character the more you are drawn toward obedience.  The truth has a way of putting things into perspective that makes life simpler.  Building your salvation on the foundation of truth gives you the strength to follow Jesus.

    You discover the truth about everything that matters in God's Word.  You discover a love that you have never experienced anywhere else.  Salvation brings immediate justification, but it is only the beginning of the purification process.  You have to change the way you think and view life to become more pure in time.  Salvation gives you sanctification, but you have to maintain it.  It is not a one time prayer and expect to be perfect in God's eyes.  It is the beginning on learning on how to be obedient.

    Salvation gives you glorification because you have defeated death.  Now you have to defeat your desires that lead you toward death.  It takes spending time in God's Word, prayer, meditation, fasting, and worship.  The alternative to salvation is eternal separation from God.  Salvation links you to Jesus to the point you know that when your time comes you will be resurrected like he was, but in Heaven.  

    Jesus changed everything.  He is still changing lives today.  Believer, declare your faith, and follow him into righteousness.  You become a new creation where the Holy Spirit can dwell.  He helps you become blameless.  He teaches you how to be obedient in a way that pleases God.  

Psalm 103:7-18, Romans 6:20-23, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21, Galatians 2:17-21, Ephesians 2:4-7, Philippians 3:7-11, & Colossians 1:21-22, 3:1-4