Five Ways to Grow Your Faith نموونە

Day 5: Cultivate a Lifestyle of Obedience

Doing what we feel like doing is easy: Holding a grudge instead of seeking reconciliation. Complaining instead of choosing thankfulness. Ignoring the needy in our community. Doing what we feel like doing takes no faith whatsoever.

Doing what God says to do requires faith. It’s likely to be countercultural. Sometimes it makes no sense to us. (Turn the other cheek? Seriously?)

That’s why we have to practice obedience to grow in faith. Faith is assurance about what we do not see (Hebrews 11:1). It’s choosing what God says over what we think and feel and even see. But the rewards are great. Sue Kline writes, “When we obey—when we relinquish our will and our rights—we discover on a deeper level that God is trustworthy. It’s no longer head knowledge; it’s heart and soul knowledge.”

Take a moment to ask God if there’s something He’s asked you to do that you’re putting off. What step of obedience could you take today?