Yesterday, I shared with you that to be blessed we are to love God.  God has loved each of us unconditionally and He's so jealous over us that He wants us to love Him more than anyone or anything.  That is one thing that Israel failed to do, they didn't love God.  Our love is not expressed the most in our words but more through our actions. Today, I want to share with you that we are bountifully blessed when we are obedient. Obedience is a very difficult factor of life.  I struggle daily with it but to be blessed in the kingdom we must obey God and those who are in authority over us.   

Scripture:  Deuteronomy 11:26-28   “See, I am setting before you today a blessings and a curse ----- the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the command of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.”

Obey God

God wants us to obey Him.  To obey God is to know that with every fiber of your being you honestly believe, trust, and love God more than anyone or anything in your life.  The one that you love the most is the one you will choose to please.  If you love you more than anything or anyone else in life you will choose to please you above pleasing God.  So to be a Christian you must desire the things of God greater than any person or anything this world has to offer you. 

There is no other way to say it.  Obedience brings blessing in our life.  Even our prosperity is tied to our obedience in Him.  All of us either at this stage in our lives are children or have been a child.  The only time you get or got punished by your parent is when you do what?  Disobey.  Doing those things that mommy and daddy have told you not to do brings trouble (curses) (whippings, punishment, loss of privileges in our lives.)  The same holds true with God.  When we don’t follow His commands we can’t receive His blessings.  When we don’t obey Him, it’s against His will to help us, favor us, or make us happy. 

Disobedience always carries a price tag. Another word for disobedience when it comes to our relationship with God is the word SIN. Sin always cost us something. Children, parents don’t stop loving their children when you do wrong. They just can’t reward bad behavior.  God doesn’t stop loving us when we sin, but there is a penalty for sin.  When we choose to sin, we choose a curse instead of a blessing to come into our own lives.

  God wants to protect us from sin but if we don’t want His protection He’s not going to force us to receive it.  God’s desire for us is the same desire He had for Israel.  He wanted so desperately to bless them with the Promised Land but they wanted as we often do to do their own thing. If Israel obeyed God they would be prosperous and satisfied.  If we want BLESSING, upon BLESSING, upon BLESSING from God, then must learn to OBEY, OBEY, and OBEY God.