It will happen that if you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep and do all his commandments that I am giving you today, the LORD your God will exalt you above all the nations of the earth.
And all these blessings will come upon you, and they will overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Jehovah will make you the head, and not the tail; and you will be above only, and you will not be underneath, if you will obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, that I order you today, so that you keep them and obey them,
Deuteronomy 28: 2, 13
Good morning, I NEED to write something short about this topic.
Surely in some church, at some point you have heard the phrase "In obedience is the blessing."
READ CAREFULLY
Be imitators of God, then, as beloved children.
And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us, offering and sacrifice to God in fragrant smell.
But fornication and all uncleanness, or greed, not even be named among you, as befits saints;
neither dishonest words, nor foolishness, nor foolishness, which are not convenient, but rather thanksgiving.
For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Let no one deceive you with vain words, because for these things comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.
Do not be, therefore, partakers with them.
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
(because the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, justice and truth),
checking what is pleasing to the Lord.
And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather repudiate them;
because it is shameful to even talk about what they do in secret.
But all things, when put into evidence by the light, are made manifest; because light is what manifests everything.
Therefore he says:
Wake up, you who sleep,
And get up from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.
See, then, diligently how you walk, not as fools but as wise men,
Making good use of time, because the days are bad.
Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5: 1-17
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, walk as children of light"
See, then, diligently how you walk, not as fools but as wise men,
Making good use of time, because the days are bad.
Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
For which reason we also, from the day we heard it, did not cease to pray for you, and to ask you to be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual intelligence,
that you may walk as it is worthy of the Lord, pleasing in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all power, according to the power of his glory, for all patience and long-suffering;
with joy giving thanks to the Father who made us fit to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light;
who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1: 9-14
"that you may walk as it is worthy of the Lord, pleasing in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God."
to give you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man by his Spirit;
Ephesians 3:16
Too much we want to be again subject to a bondage of slavery, we despair to fulfill the commandments to please God, we try or we try to "obey" him to gain something.
We lose sight of the 4 points that are the basis of our life, Christ DEAD, BURIED, RISEN, AND HIS APPEARANCE.
We lose sight that because of our humanity it is impossible for us to please GOD, impossible to do his will, impossible impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible !!!!!!! IT IS NOT WITH OUR STRENGTH !!!!!!!
That's when we understand our insufficiency, and our dependence on GOD, "Christ in US the hope of glory"
We return to the starting point: "Christ in us".
The seed of God in us, who has already fulfilled the law in its totality dwells in YOU and in ME.
Through Christ we reach EVERYTHING, we have EVERYTHING.
I challenge you to discover through the word of GOD that we are human beings with defects and virtues, that GOD put in us a TREASURE, put CHRIST in us so that we are complete in HIM, otherwise we would continue dead in crimes and sins .
There are many examples, we have Elijah who prayed and it did not rain for a while, then he prayed that it would rain and it did, but we did NOT remember that Elijah was a man subject to passions like us, we also forgot that Jesus was a man too.
"ONLY WE want to be perfect men, or do we want others to be."
Is walking in the will of GOD not that we do not sin and all that theme?
I leave you to answer.
Remember
Therefore, we do not lose heart; before, although this our outer man is wearing out, the interior nevertheless is renewed from day to day.
2 Corinthians 4:16