“I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.” Is48.17 NKJV
At least one measure of our obedience should be the blessings of God. Christ promised the fruit of answered prayer, the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of an abundant life. I would think that we should expect to see these things if we are listening and doing what He is telling us. Maturity will of course affect the measure of these blessings. There are also special seasons where the presence of these things may be obscured, at least for a time. When this happens, we would do well to take a page from the book of Job. When we are, to the best of our knowledge, walking in the Holy Spirit and not seeing certain aspects of the abundant life, we should not be like Job and pass judgment on God. We should definitely remember this when considering another who is under trial, and not be like Job’s friends and pass judgment on them. But all in all, an obedient Christian should expect to see the blessings of that obedience. And in the case of Job, the trial too was a blessing, if only as a seed in the ground. 9/3/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
