What Does Obedience to God Look Like? - Wednesday

Good morning and welcome to Day 3 of our attempt to answer the question, "What Does Obedience to God Look Like?".  So far this week we've looked at Joshua 22:5 and found 2 characteristics to describe "the look" of obedience: loving God and walking in His ways.  Don't worry you can go back and read the last few blogs to catch up if you've missed anything.

Alright so let's the look at the third thing that Joshua points out.....so go ahead and read Joshua 22:5 again. So let's look at the third characteristic of obedience:

Obedience is keeping His commands.


So the third thing that Joshua commands us to do is "to keep His (God's) commands..."  Joshua explained what God expected from the people in the area of obedience.  It was very simple.  They were to love God with all of their heart and soul.  God would make their paths clear if they would just obey and follow Him. Joshua knew the people would struggle with this very simple concept.

We aren't any different from the children of Israel.  God has promised us success if we would just obey, trust, and follow Him.  That sounds simple, right?  But it's not.  We have things that come into our lives everyday that keep us from putting God first in our lives.

I want you to take out a sheet of paper this morning and I want you to write the answers to these 3 questions on that paper, fold it when you're done and put it someplace you'll remember until Friday.  So here are the 3 questions:

1.  What are some of the things in your life that are stopping you from obeying God?
2.  What would you have to change in order to be obedient to God?
3.  Are you willing to make those changes?

Those are some pretty tough questions and it make take you some time to think them through so I want you to ponder on those today and we'll talk more tomorrow.

Don't forget that we have Giant Cranium tonight at Ignite....meet in The Attic @ 6!

Also don't forget that we're having a FBCG @ The Movies this Friday to go see Despicable Me in 3-D! We'll meet at the church at 12:30 head to Blue Coast Burrito for lunch (usually about 10 bucks) and then catch a 2:25 movie ($13 for 3-D).  We'll be back at the church between 4:30-5:00.

Later,
Heffe