Simple Obedience
“Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:9
From time to time I have shared with you from the writings of Fenelon. This man had an incredible walk with the Lord and his writings date back to the 1600’s.
His insight on simple obedience to the Lord are so practical:
His insight on simple obedience to the Lord are so practical:
Encourage peace. Become deaf to your over-active imagination. Your spinning imagination will harm your health and make your spiritual life very dry. [Check out yesterday’s Freedom Fighter on Meditation]. You worry yourself sick for no good reason. Inner peace, and the sweet presence of God, are chased away by restlessness.
How can you hear God speak, in His soft tender way, when your hurried thoughts create a whirlwind within? Be quiet, and He will soon be heard. Allow yourself one excess: to be excessively obedient.
You ask for comfort, but you do not see that you have been led to the edge of the fountain and refuse to drink. Peace and comfort are to be found only in simple obedience. Be obedient without a lot of talk about how obedient you are. You will soon find rivers of living water flowing within you. If you believe much, you will receive much. If you believe nothing, you will receive nothing, and continue to listen only to the stories your empty imagination tells you.
You dishonor true love by supposing that it is concerned about the insignificant things that continually occupy your attention. Satan is transformed into an angel of light. He assumes the form of a legalistic love, and overly sensitive conscience. You should know by now the troubles he will lead you into if he convinces you to be a Pharisee. Reject his advances.
If you allow yourself to have only simple and uncomplicated desires, you will be more pleasing to God that if you died the death of a hundred martyrs. Turn your anxieties to the fact that you have delayed in offering this sacrifice of simplicity to God. Can true love hesitate when the Well-Beloved asks?
Brothers, are our lives marked with the quality of simple obedience? Is your aim to please Him today? Think about it. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
Dig This Quote: God is seeking men and women of reckless faith today...to be reckless in your faith does not mean to be unthinking, but the reverse - concentrated, single-minded in your concern that God should be glorified and souls won. George Verwer
Determined Digging: Level 1: John 8:31-32; Level 2: Isaiah 40:28-31
Determined Praying: Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of him that we are capable of in this world. – William Law
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