1 samuel 15:22
Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice
isaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land
2 years-ish ago i started this blog because i wanted to go through the psalms and discover what treasure was there about the character of who God is. because i stink at commitments like this, or the gym, i gave up after awhile.
yesterday i had a conversation about obedience with a good friend of mine. he said the word obedience but i feel like it rang in my ears 6 or 7 times. i knew that God was highlighting it to me, but today i discovered that for awhile now He has been calling me and i have not been responding obediently. He was very clear in His message to me that i’m not being faithful to what He is speaking to me…and therefore i’m not hearing what else He is saying.
i love His word. it always amazes me. He speaks and changes my life and thoughts through it. it heals and teaches and everything else is says in 2 tim 3:16 (and elsewhere). it’s my favorite thing…but i’ve not been in it; not like He’s called me to. i’ve been lazy.
and He’s calling me to prayer. not praying…but a lifestyle that seeks Him above all else and listens and hears what He is saying; to spend time not only in His word but in His Presence.
and so with my great friend Alyson, i’m going through psalm 119. meditating on and praying through the power of the word expressed in that psalm.
i also am going to try to keep the posts short…but really, that’s hard for me.
2 peter 1 :3-4
seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
