Obedience to God

Obeying God takes a lot of sacrificing and self-denial. Its actually a very strong phrase indeed, given that we have already the free-will and intellect that are always up for grabs everytime we are confronted in making decisions or whenever we are in a situations that requires a lot of thinking and discerning.

Sometimes out of haste, we plunge into to something without carefully thinking about it less even praying about it merely because its simplier, its easy and its advantageous and in line with our comfort zones but in the end, it did not turn out right as we have expected or rather assumed and worst of all we questioned God...funny isnt it? But actually, thinking and going deeper we realized that its all because we disobeyed God, specially when you already have this personal relationship with Him. You actually have thought of that already during the process but you just simply shun it away and take on the otherwise.

Truly obedience to God entails sacrifice, but actually it should not be thought that way, because God only wants the best for us and He assured us that He will take care of us if only we put our trust and confidence in Him. Having that in faith, we will see things in a different perspective and eventually learned and appreciate how great and good is our God.

Just like the story of Zerapath when she was visited by prophet Elijah, she have limited resources not actually enough for her and her son, but Elijah insisted and told her about God's message of "The jar of flour shall not go empty,nor the jug of oil run dry,until the day when the LORD sends rain upon the earth.’”She simply obeyed what Elijah said and prepared food for him and for her and hers son. True enough, the jar did not go empty.

"Indeed, its usually when obedience is the hardest that He blesses us the most, we can never outgive God."