Either God is in control or we think we are.

Either God is in control or we think we are. If God is in control then we bow to His will, not ours. If we are in control then we do whatever we feel like doing or not doing. Is it God or is it us? If God then we must obey God not doing our will. Is it God's will be done or our will be done or ours? We don't have to understand to obey, we obey and hope for understanding.


Exodus {19:5} Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine


Obey God's voice.


Deut. {13:3}...for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. {13:4} Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.


Walk after the Lord your God...obey his voice.


Deut. {27:9} And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. {27:10} Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day


Obey the voice of the LORD thy God.


Deut. {30:2} And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul


Obey his voice.


Deut. {30:20} That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days


Obey his voice.


1 Sam. {12:14} If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then
shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God


Obey his voice.


1 Sam. {15:22} And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.


Obeying the voice of the Lord. Obeying better than sacrifice.


Jere. {7:23} But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all
the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.


Obey my (God's) voice.


Jere. {11:3} And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, {11:4} Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God


Obey my (God's) voice.


Jere. {11:7} For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart...


Obey my (God's) voice. Yet they obeyed not... everyone walked in the imagination of their evil heart. Obey God, His will be done, not ours.


Jere. {26:13} Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you


Obey the voice of the LORD your God.


Jere. {42:6} Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.


Obey the voice of the LORD our God.


Daniel {7:27} And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.


Obey him.


Daniel. {9:10} Neither have we obeyed the oice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. {9:11} Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.


Obey him.


Zech. {6:15} And they [that are] far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.


Diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.


Acts {5:29} Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.


Obey God rather than men.


Romans {6:16} Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?


His servants you are to whom you obey.


1 Pet. {4:17} For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God? {4:18} And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? {4:19} Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.


Obey the gospel God.


Obey...

obey (o-bâ´) verb
obeyed, obeying, obeys verb, transitive
1.To carry out or fulfill the command, order, or instruction of.
2.To carry out or comply with (a command, for example).

verb, intransitive
To behave obediently.

[Middle English obeien, from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedìre, to listen to : ob-, to. See ob- + audìre, to hear.]
- obey´er noun

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary


From Latin-- to listen, to hear.


Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
1. (v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.

2. (v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.

3. (v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.

4. (v. i.) To give obedience.


Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
1. (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.

2. (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.


Submitting ourselves to God.
Subject to God's rule.
Listening, hearing, yielding to God.
Executing the commands of God.
Submission to, complying with God's orders.
Ruled by God.


Only good comes from obeying the voice of God, of harkening to His commands. Only good. Ultimate good, not earthly good necessarily. Jesus obeyed the voice of His father implicitly. There wasn't a single command of God's that Jesus broke, not one. Jesus died. Jesus' death was for us. Jesus said...

Luke {22:42} Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.


Nevertheless not my will but thine be done.


Jesus gave His life obeying the will of His Father. Obeying the voice of the LORD God.


Jesus is our example and we must obey the voice of the LORD our God. Not our will, but God's.


Do we have to understand? No. We are called to obey, not obey after we've picked apart everything and find it to our liking, discarding it if we don't. It's not our liking that matters, it's obeying our Creator, our Heavenly Father, the LORD God.


Ro. {5:21} That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.


By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!


Not our will but thine oh Lord!


Help us to obey the voice of the LORD God, through Your righteousness, by Your grace and mercy now and always.


Amen.