DO YOU ONLY OBEY GOD’S WORD WHEN IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS OR WHEN YOU ARE IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO YOU FEEL HAS THE AUTHORITY TO JUDGE YOU. OR THOSE YOU FEEL YOU MUST IMPRESS, JUST TO BE IN THE MIX, EVEN IF IT MEANS GOING AGAINST GOD’S WORD? WHEN IN DOUBT STAY TO THE RIGHT.
Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus, God’s only Son, grew in wisdom and obeyed God first. After which He grew in favor with man. Notice how He proceeded with His commission. First, He sought to please God, through His obedience to Him; caring about what man thought or could do to Him came secondary to God, our Father’s will. It did not matter what the church leaders say or how vehemently they forbid, you must obey God, at all times, and not man. (Acts 5:28-29 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us. 29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men).
Obedience demonstrates our faith and trust in God’s Word and plan for our lives; His signs and wonders are constantly in front of us, beckoning to us to obey. Because obedience is the key to our success in maneuvering through our troubles, trials, and tribulations; Obedience is the sure and promised way for unlocking blessings for our lives. For us to be able to fully love and obey, we must read God’s Word every day and ask God to empower us with His holy spirit so that our life is going toward honoring Him. (John 14:15 – If ye love me, keep my commandments. Luke 11:28 – But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it).
To obey YHWH, God’s Word (Jesus) is not a request, it is a command from Him; given for our good and it does not require others to put their spin to it. Which comes down to the question of “Do you only obey YHWH, God’s Word (Jesus) when someone, who you want to impress, (who have been deemed important by others), will see you as not being a child of God and try to hold you beyond the accountability they have for themselves, for the things you may do, say, or act? If you do, you are wrong for allowing yourself to be held hostage by what anyone think of you and for being the subject of such judgement by anyone’s opinion or actions toward you; only God has the privilege of being The Righteous, True Judge over all of our lives; He does it without respect of who we are; but our hearts motives. (Deuteronomy 27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day).
For yours and my information, the One Who truly matters, God, can and does see it all, hear it all, and knows it all; we can’t hide from the ever-watchful eye of our God. Therefore, trying to keep others from realizing the true constitution of yourself does not matter. It should not be an issue. God see, knows, and hear; even in our darkest moments, uncovering all of our shortcomings. (Galatians 1:10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.) Because God’s got all of us in the palm of His merciful hand and in Yashuah, Jesus’ name He will direct us according to His Plan, if only we will follow. And when it comes to the truth of the matter you do not require permission from someone who is on the same journey (different path or maybe time, or maturity on our individual life journey) as you are, to point out and try and correct your faults, when theirs are showing. (Matthew 7:3-5 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye).
It is a futile act to spend your life not being the person YHWH, God, created you to be; hiding in the darkness of your shortcomings instead of bringing them into the Light Who shines through and help rid us of them. It, quite frankly, is insane and becomes tiresome trying to put on a show each day, pleasing man before pleasing God; it is easy to please God; our entire duty of service is to love Him, self, others, and just do what is written in His Word. Now, to please man, on the other hand has become a bigger joke than before. Because in this day and time, no matter how hard you try, there is always that one more little thing to do, that one more whoop to jump through. But God says I will take you as you are, baggage and all. And another thing, we should always take His Word (Jesus) into consideration when accessing the opinions of our peers and others. We are not to concern ourselves with what others think or don’t think of you; it just does not matter, because you have been made holy in Christ, Who lives in you; Whose will is in you, so you no longer live as the world but by faith in Jesus Who died, unselfishly, on the cross for you. It brings it down to the fact that only what God think, knows, and says of you matters. (Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me). (Jeremiah 31:3
You are forgiven of your sin; you are declared to be righteous; you are an adopted child of the Lord God; you are the apple of His eye; you are loved with an everlasting love, and you can count on the faithfulness of God being shown to you forevermore!)
Yet even when we realize that God is good and He has given us the Way to go, we still look to man for direction. These are questions we all should ask ourselves to bring about clarity. “Are you the type of saint who only obeys God when someone you admire and want to impress (a church member, the pastor, a person you think is important), is looking.” “Or do you, no matter what, even in their absence, continue to do what is righteous. “The latter is the person, Jesus is looking for, one that keeps a steady hand to his own plow of salvation; making sure his own rows are straight, to be able to help someone else. And We, as YHWH, God’s children are to do it all with a profound reverence and awe especially toward God, even to the point of shaking in fear of what He will do, not man. (Philippians 2:12 – Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling).
We must understand that it is the secret God, who causes all things to happen according to His will. Be still! His work is done through you, not necessarily for your pleasure but as it honors Him. In the presence of man your character is to remain the same as it is in the silence of your heart; do what is righteous and true at all times. Take for instance, when you send up a prayer for something or someone, when you greet someone with a smile, when you give, when you do any form of righteousness, which produce the good fruit of the spirit (causing materialization of the effort) it is important to know that, it is God who makes it happen according to His will, not yours, mine, nor any man. You see, you can pull the wool over man’s eyes by acting the good and righteous child of God, in the presence of your acquaintances or even people you do not know, but God knows, sees, hears, and is everything and everywhere. That leaves us with one very important question to ask and a decision to make and that is “Are we going to obey God’s Word at all times, pleasing the LORD, in His Son Jesus’ name, as best as we can or are we going to obey man?” And make no mistake, when we ask, God will help us with the strength, boldness, courage, and sincerity to do that which is a reflection of His goodness and that which pleases Him. (Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure). GODS GOT IT NO WORRY NO FEAR.
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