“Always study in God’s Word in the spirit of an unreserved surrender to obey. .... If you accustom yourself to study the Bible without an earnest and very definite purpose to obey, you are getting hardened in disobedience. Never read God’s will concerning you without honestly giving up yourself to do it immediately, and asking grace to do so. God has given us His Word to tell us what He wants us to do and what grace He has provided to enable us to do it. How sad to think it a pious thing just to read that Word without any earnest effort to obey it! May God keep us from this terrible sin!
Let us make it a sacred habit to say to God, ‘Lord, whatever I know to be Your will, I will immediately obey.’ Always read with a heart yielded up in willing obedience.
Without obedience there cannot be the spiritual power to enter into the knowledge of God’s Word and will. Without obedience there cannot be the confidence, the boldness, the liberty that knows that it is heard. Obedience is fellowship with God in His will - without it, there is not the capacity for seeing and claiming and holding the blessings He has for us.
Obedience to God’s will shows itself in tender sensitivity to the voice of conscience. This holds true with regard to eating and drinking, sleeping and resting, spending money and seeking pleasure- let everything be brought into subjection to the will of God.
…..This leads to another thing of great importance in this area. If you desire to live the life of true obedience, see that you maintain a good conscience before God, and never knowingly indulge in anything that is contrary to His mind.”
and from Holy in Christ:Thoughts on the Calling of God’s Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray
“The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this- the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response.”
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