“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” John14.23
When everything is said and done the Christian life all boils down to obedience. Some may say it all boils down to faith. No argument there. True obedience complies because of faith. We obey God because we believe that what He tells us to do is good and right and true. It is an obedience of faith because trust is fundamental to it. Yet it is possible to believe in God and not do as He commands. It is then not so much that we know God’s will, as it is that we do it. And of course, to do it we must know it and to know it we must listen. The New Testament word for obedience comes from two words joined together and literally translates to “listen under.” Obedience then is when we listen and believe what we have heard and come under or submit to its guidance. True faith obeys, and a true obedience believes. Listen under.
Just me trying to be honest with God.
