Enjoyed my BSF meeting yesterday. Regarding Abraham's obedience and costly step of faith, ur training asks: What does obedience to God require of you? And, how does Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice inspire your sacrificial obedience?
The first question I answered Becoming like Christ is evidenced by wholehearted obedience. To the second I answered, when we give ourselves wholeheartedly to God, we only gain more.
Obedient and faithful service to God builds faith and brings God’s promised blessing for others.
Place Your Life Before God
12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
3 I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
I'm enjoying being with my dad and Penny today. Hoping we can watch heart ablaze and turn our eyes upon Jesus rather than political solutions.
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