Tag: obedience
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Faith filled obedience when life doesn’t make sense

I was recently pondering the mind-boggling account of God’s command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:2). Since Abraham had left his people, God had promised to make him (and his descendants) into a large nation (Genesis 15:5-6). The only problem was his wife Sarah was barren, and well into her nineties when…
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The Necessary Next Step

Are you obeying God? That question can be simultaneously sobering and angering. There is a part of me that does not want to submit my will to the wishes of anyone but myself. There is another part that recognizes that I want to follow God and obedience is a key component of that. I would…