The topic of obedience continues to remain at the front of my mind.  No matter what passage I open to in Scripture I see obedience or lack there of.  Everything returns to the question of our obedience to the will of God.  Jesus came and lived the example of obedience to the will of God.  Have you ever counted how many times in just the gospel of John Jesus stated that He is only here to do the Father’s will?  In a really fast look through the red print I counted ten times.  This is not to mention the reality of every one of His teachings revolved around that same topic of Him just doing the Father’s will.

There was a question from the followers of Jesus in the gospel of John that caught my attention.  These followers asked, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God” (John 6:28, NASB)? As obedience is a word of action, I see this question as meaning, how are we to do the will of God?  The answer Jesus gave in verse 29 can be summarized to say, “believe in me.”

These followers continued to ask Jesus, what is your work?  Jesus’s rather lengthy response can also be summarized to say, “to do the will of Him who sent me, which happens to be for you to feed on me.”  This is where the teaching got hard.  This is where many followers fell away.  This is also where we find ourselves slipping away.  Believing in Jesus leads to loving Him, which in action is obedience to everything that came from His mouth (5 passages between John 14 to 16).  Jesus is the Word (John 1:1) and we must eat of Him (John 6:53).  We must be students of the Word!  Therefore, we must believe in Him, which results in our obedience to Him, of doing the Father’s will.

The truth is, in order to be obedient to the will of God, His word must be in you!  You must be able to hear His voice, which will always be found to be in alignment to the written Word.  In essence, it is the uniting of the Word and the Spirit.  Therefore, I will close this blog by recommending you to read a book called, “Bridging the Great Divide” by Dr. Rob McCorkle.  When you say you believe in Jesus, I ask, what do you then believe?  Let this book guide you in continuing to live a Faith-Full life of obedience to His will.