The Key to Living in Perfect Obedience to God!
“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 1:19-20).
For many years, I heard these verses quoted to suggest that my obedience would let me enjoy great success and have the best the land could offer.
On the contrary, if I was disobedient, it would cost me severely.
Then one day, I happened to be reading Isaiah Chapter 1 and noticed a revelatory verse—the one before verse 19.
It clarified what type of obedience God desired of me.
Suddenly, it all made perfect sense. It wasn’t my performance or behavior that earned me “the good of the land” as promised in verse 19, but agreeing with what God desires to do for me that did.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).
The obedience God was talking about was the fact that He fully planned to cleanse us from all our sins.
He would turn our crimson-red sins as white as snow and wool.
Clearly, the obedience God is talking about is “believing” what He said He would do.
Rebellion is quite the opposite.
It is not believing what God said.
It is rejecting His desire to cleanse us of all our sins.
This passage is very prophetic.
It tells what God would send His Son Jesus to accomplish for us in His death, burial, and resurrection.
Only the blood of Jesus has the power to cleanse us from our sins and purify us as white as snow, aka make us righteous.
Agreeing with God is the “obedience” He desires from us.
That is what living in perfect obedience to Him is all about.
Obedience to God begins in the heart.
“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 1:19-20).
For many years, I heard these verses quoted to suggest that my obedience would let me enjoy great success and have the best the land could offer.
On the contrary, if I was disobedient, it would cost me severely.
Then one day, I happened to be reading Isaiah Chapter 1 and noticed a revelatory verse—the one before verse 19.
It clarified what type of obedience God desired of me.
Suddenly, it all made perfect sense. It wasn’t my performance or behavior that earned me “the good of the land” as promised in verse 19, but agreeing with what God desires to do for me that did.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).
The obedience God was talking about was the fact that He fully planned to cleanse us from all our sins.
He would turn our crimson-red sins as white as snow and wool.
Clearly, the obedience God is talking about is “believing” what He said He would do.
Rebellion is quite the opposite.
It is not believing what God said.
It is rejecting His desire to cleanse us of all our sins.
This passage is very prophetic.
It tells what God would send His Son Jesus to accomplish for us in His death, burial, and resurrection.
Only the blood of Jesus has the power to cleanse us from our sins and purify us as white as snow, aka make us righteous.
Agreeing with God is the “obedience” He desires from us.
That is what living in perfect obedience to Him is all about.
Obedience to God begins in the heart.
The Key to Living in Perfect Obedience to God!
“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 1:19-20).
For many years, I heard these verses quoted to suggest that my obedience would let me enjoy great success and have the best the land could offer.
On the contrary, if I was disobedient, it would cost me severely.
Then one day, I happened to be reading Isaiah Chapter 1 and noticed a revelatory verse—the one before verse 19.
It clarified what type of obedience God desired of me.
Suddenly, it all made perfect sense. It wasn’t my performance or behavior that earned me “the good of the land” as promised in verse 19, but agreeing with what God desires to do for me that did.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).
The obedience God was talking about was the fact that He fully planned to cleanse us from all our sins.
He would turn our crimson-red sins as white as snow and wool.
Clearly, the obedience God is talking about is “believing” what He said He would do.
Rebellion is quite the opposite.
It is not believing what God said.
It is rejecting His desire to cleanse us of all our sins.
This passage is very prophetic.
It tells what God would send His Son Jesus to accomplish for us in His death, burial, and resurrection.
Only the blood of Jesus has the power to cleanse us from our sins and purify us as white as snow, aka make us righteous.
Agreeing with God is the “obedience” He desires from us.
That is what living in perfect obedience to Him is all about.
Obedience to God begins in the heart.
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