
The sign of our commitment to God is our obedience to the Word of God. Are we Christians? Then like Christ we seek to obey every word that comes from the mouth of our Father. His word is our bread, His will is our food, living His ways are the sign of the abundant, life giving, waters residing within us.
Yet too many in our midst, too many in our churches, too many of our church teachers, encourage and allow men to live according to their wisdom rather than the word of God that is truly wisdom, the wisdom that comes from heaven. Why do we listen to men? Why do we listen to the university professor? Why do we listen to the television reporter or the journalist?
Why are their opinions of more importance to us, seem better to us, than the opinion of God recorded in the Word of God? How is it we have come to love what men think more than what God thinks? We know men are evil, born in rebellion against God. God has given us His Word so that we can reorient ourselves back to Him.
His Word is our true north, it reveals the way we are to live so we might know how to please our Creator, our life Sustainer and our only possible Savior. We love ourselves more than God so we listen to men who encourage us to please ourselves at the cost of pleasing God by denying ourselves and following Him. We are responsible, we will be held accountable, for obeying God and doing His will on earth as it is in heaven.
Not only as individuals but as a church, as a community of disciples of Jesus, who have committed themselves, supposedly, to obeying everything Jesus has commanded us.