True love
is obedience. True obedience is an unconquerable force. True obedience is true
power.
May’s
Awakening, Day 18
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wicked men obey from fear; good men,
from love.
—Aristotle
Obedience
to God is always for our good and his glory.
—Author Unknown
And
this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from
the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. 2 John 1:6
NIV
In your relationships with one another,
have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not
consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather,
he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in
human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by
becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to
the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the
earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father. Philippians
2:5–11 NIV
The
requirement for obedience to God is not out of fear, nor oppression, nor forced
or coerced, but is out of the deepest love for Him, reciprocating the love
shown us by Christ’s obedience to death on the Cross. Obedience to God is
conquering and victorious, powerful and freeing, and peaceful assurance.
Willful and humble submission of self to an omniscient, omnipotent, and
all-loving God is not weakness, nor dangerous, but it is being made vigorously
alive to the fullest. Christ, God in the flesh, always deferred to the Father,
not shunning the cup of the atrocity of the Cross, but drinking fully of it in
obedience. Obedience is Christ’s love holding Him on the Cross, trustfully
knowing that even in His death there would be victory and life. The greatest
love is an obedient love, and an obedient love is unconquerable.
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