Obedience to the Son of God

Chapter 2 - The Call to Discipleship  (continued)

Bonhoeffer- ' The call to follow means here what it had meant before--adherence to the person of Jesus Christ and fellowship with him. The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.'

My thoughts-

Truth.

Obedience.

Not lip service, not our own contrivances of worship, not any thing other than OBEDIENCE.  The call to FOLLOW Jesus is a command for us to obey. The teachings of Jesus Christ are given to us to obey, not to discard. How many of Jesus' teachings do we choose to discard because we'd rather just remain who we are? 

We get used to ourselves, so much so that we start to believe that there is NOTHING in us that needs changing.  We get comfortable with who we are, so much so that when we start suspecting there are things about us that don't quite line up with Jesus' teachings, we start making excuses for them rather than add them to the LIST of sins that they really are.  We don't like calling our non-Jesus-like behavior - a sin.  When we label our actions, our words, our thoughts even- sin, then we realize that we have to seek forgiveness and NOT accept the sin in our lives.  We hate not being able to just put our sin blinders on and go about our business. The thing is… Satan has sin blinders ready for us and he is very eager for us to put them on. We make our choices and when we choose to accept our SINS having labeled them just minor annoyances, then Satan slips those blinders on us and suddenly we are finding it very easy to excuse our sins. As soon as we excuse our sins we are choosing to be spiritual blind.   It's such a slippery slope is it any wonder our Savior gave us such amazing teachings to follow so we can KNOW when we are NOT following Him by our behavior, our lives, the fruit we produce.  We need to STUDY how Jesus wants us to LIVE, and make it a LIFE LONG STUDY. When we have our conscience pricked we need to thank the HOLY SPIRIT then and there as we feel the weight of our sins- the tiniest ones to the largest sin. We need to thank the Holy Spirit and then we need to seek forgiveness from God, repenting of those sins and seeking to OBEY our God.  Our obeying is keeping His commandments to LOVE Him and Others and that is clarified for us in the Moral Law of God. 

We believe and we OBEY.

We aren't to let our worship of God become hero worship by setting aside our obedience to Him.  He won't be mollified by our songs of worship and songs of praise to Him all the while we keep disobeying Him at every opportunity.  He wouldn't be pleased with that or accept us that way any more than we would accept that in our own children, or SHOULD accept that in our own children. How would we as parents like our children loving us to our faces and yet turning around and disobeying us as soon as they can? We know in our heart of hearts that disobeying is wrong, the disobeying of God or parents is wrong.  When we disobey we declare the one we are disobeying as unworthy, and when we declare God unworthy we've stopped believing in Him as our Creator, our Redeemer.

Please LORD help us to obey, teach us the need to obey, not just once in a while but ALWAYS.  

Save us from ourselves Lord, please, save us.

All in YOUR LOVE, YOUR FORGIVENESS, YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!