Trust and Obey

This is a bit of a spur-of-the-moment-inspiration post.  As I was brushing my teeth tonight getting ready for bed, I started thinking of the song Trust and Obey that my mom sometimes sings.  Here are the words that I remembered.

Trust and obey
For there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus
But to trust and obey

It is such a simple song, but at that moment it carried a profound message for me right now in my life.  I have written before about some of the things that God has been teaching me through the tendonitis that I have.  I have been learning to trust god in every situation and that He always knows what is best for me.  Today as I was driving through Massachusetts on the tail end of a road trip with my family, we listened to Eric Ludy preach a sermon about people with humble hearts.  What I took away from the sermon was more a message of some of the hard things that God is and will be requiring of me if I truly want to be in full surrender to Him.  I realized that I have a fear that God will require something of me that will be really painful or hard for me to give up.  Because of my fear, I am not able to have as dynamic a relationship with Him as I would like to.

You are probably thinking, well, that is nice and all, but is there a point to this blog post?

Yes, the whole point is to trust and obey!  As I was brushing my teeth, it suddenly dawned on me that it was incredibly simple.  What God is requiring of me at the moment is trust and obedience!  I need to trust Him with every area of my life, and I need to surrender to Jesus in full obedience to Him.  I trust that God will work in me through my trust and obedience.

Is there any area of your life that you have not surrendered to Jesus?  What is it and how can you change that?  Are you following God with full-hearted obedience, or are you afraid of what He might ask you to give up?

I challenge to examine your hearts for areas where you are not trusting and obeying God.