Have Your Destiny, Obey God in Faith

I love the song, “I am a friend of God.”  He wants to call us friend. However, He also says that we are His friend if we do what He commands us to do.  Jesus made it clear that we are to be in complete obedience to Him.  The Bible says in John 15:14 , “You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.” 

Most of the time we don’t have to obey our friends so why does Jesus say that we need to obey Him to be His friend.  We are not just friends with Him, we are “friends with the king.”  Even though we friends we aren’t equals.  How can you be equal with God?  You can’t.  The thing is He knows everything from the beginning to the end.  He also knows all about you more than even you know.  He has the hairs on your head counted.  Why would we not want to obey Christ because He knows more than we do about ourselves?!

We obey God not out of duty or fear or compulsion like we would with most earthly kings, we obey Jesus out of love and we trust Him to know that He knows better than we and He knows what is best for us.  He died for our sins so we follow Him out of gratitude for all He has done for us.

Jesus is the greatest example of a loving relationship.  He had a loving relationship with the Father and did Jesus did what the Father wanted Him to do all the way to His death.  He said, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love, If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (John 15:9-11)  Keeping Jesus commandments like He kept the Father’s commandments is the ultimate act of love.

Jesus public ministry was only three and one-half years long.  He started when He was thirty years old.  What did He do for those thirty years.  He was obedient to God.  The first 30 years of His life can be summed up in just two words in Luke 2:51.  He “lived obediently.”  He was obedient to His earthly parents.  Thirty years of pleasing God were spent in a carpenters shop helping His parents.

Are you obedient to the Lord today?  If you want your destiny, you MUST obey the one who made you, loves you, and wants the best for you.  When the time comes He will pour out blessings on you so that you can fulfill your destiny.

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