Obedience to God could be quite tedious.
What an unfortunate, unhappy, unfulfilling disposition to have!
Better this: “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart” (Psalm 40:8).
With that background, this:
If there is ignorance on that point, then we will think it a light thing to disobey on a “small” matter like allowing yourself to make that crude remark or to grumble a bit or to have that third piece of cake against the check in your spirit. After all, we can always confess it afterward and God will forgive us, right?
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There are so many things wrong with that posture that it is hard to know where to start.
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That is the little-understood truth that whenever we obey God, in the minutest of matters, though nothing seems to have changed outwardly in our circumstances as a result, the reality is that something has occurred in the invisible world.
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Under the threshold of our physical observation, we are, with every choice, either becoming more like Jesus or more like his Enemy.
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