Wednesday, December 31, 2008.
The Pleasure of God in Personal Obedience and Public Justice
I have never expected myself to post on this blog.However, Pei En has encouraged me for quite long that i decided to share a short article from my Quiet Time.
I will just post the summary of the personal obedience as this chapter from Pleasure of God by John Piper is really long.
Here we go:
'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, and to hearken than the fat of rams.' 1 Sam 15:22
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
Why is God so displeased with disobedience?
1. It shows a misplacement of fear.
2. It shows a misplacement of pleasure.
3. It shows a misplacement of praise.
4. Disobedience is as the sin of divination.
5. Disobedience is idolatry.
Is it good news to hear that God is pleased by obedience? Yes.
1. It means He is praiseworthy and reliable.
2. Everything God commands is for our good.
3. His commandments are not too hard for us.
4. The obedience He loves is the obedience of faith.
It is indeed tiring if we try to live the obedience from our own effort. For salvation is not a one stage process where we transit to the stage of obedience. Salvation is an on-going process till the day we meet God again. Therefore, we are sanctified to learn to obey.
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
"In Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything but faith working through love." Galatian 5:6
"Even so faithm if it has no works, is dead being by itself." James 2:17
Grace is the power that pushes us through faith to obey.
Therefore, faith is defined: The satisfied assurance that God will work things out in the future better than i could work them out by relying on myself or be departing from the path of obedience.
God is happy with our obedience when our obedience is the overflow of out happiness with God.
God is delighted with our obedience when it is the fruit of our delight in Him.
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. Posted by CCH at 10:28 AM. 0 comments
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