April 18, 2006

The Word April 18, 2006
Obedience & Rebellion

Jeremiah 42:6 (King James Version)
“Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.”

-This scripture answers the question of why we should obey God; “that it may be well with us.” In Jeremiah 42, the people were asking Jeremiah the prophet to pray to God and ask him to “show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do,” (Jeremiah 46:3). After that, the people said the above verse.
-We are constantly asking God for something; however, when he tells us what to do we don’t always comply. Their response was good or bad, if the Lord said do it, we will. This reminds me of King Saul in yesterday’s word. Killing all of those people may have looked evil to us but it was what the Lord said do (God is not going to tell us to kill anyone today). Everything God tells us to do won’t always look right or good but remember he sees the entire picture we only see part of it. We need to get to a point where as soon as God tells us to do something we move; no questions asked. Lord, help me to obey your word as soon as we are told; no questions asked. So, that “it may be well with us.”