It’s time to wise-up

Do you want to be able to share freely and give generously to those in need? Do you want your good deeds to be remembered forever? Do you want influence and honour? Do you want to be confident and fearless? Do you want to lose the fear of bad news and confidently trust God to care for you? Do you want to be wealthy? Do you want an entire generation of godly people to be blessed? Do you want your children to be blessed everywhere?

If you answered yes to any or all of these, I have good news for you ... You can have it! How do I know? Because the bible tells us you can (see psalm 112:1-4). All you have to do is fear the Lord AND delight in obeying his commands. The bible tells us this is the foundation of true wisdom (psalm 111:10).

That's a lot of promises in exchange for our Obedience! You'd think we'd be more eager to obey considering all we'd get, and yet, we struggle. Our flesh is constantly trying to limit our level of obedience.

We will yield to the big requests (it's pretty easy not to murder someone) but we seem to find it's not so easy with the smaller things such as not getting angry with your brother, sister, spouse, colleague etc. It doesn't seem so easy to forgive the person that constantly hurts us or let's us down. It doesn't seem so easy to extend love to the person who has wronged us. And yet, if we did, all these promises would be ours to obtain!

I believe our struggle really comes down to us valuing ourselves and our ego above the Lord. If He truly was our greatest love, that whisper to not argue or to ignore that comment would be easy to obey. But, we choose to ignore that whisper so often because we fear our bruised ego more than we fear the Lord.

As a bride I believe we are on the road to true wisdom and thus true surrender. It's time to wise-up bride! Fear Him and obey Him above all else! I'm sure it would be a thousand times more satisfying to see an entire generation blessed than to prove your spouse wrong!

So let's fix our perspective on what really matters. Don't let the daily grind and demands distract you. It is the Lord first. In our obedience to him, everything else will fall into place.