Day Fourteen

I was talking with Waylon yesterday about his studies in Alliance History and the process of being filled with the Holy Spirit and in that conversation we got sidetracked into a discussion of obedience. Obedience and Grace and how the sometimes confusing distinction between the two concepts plays out in  the order of salvation I went to sleep last night thinking about this idea of obedience - which made it pretty cool this morning when I woke up for my morning prayers and opened my Bible to Jeremiah 11 and read this:

Jeremiah received the LORD’s word: Listen to the terms of this covenant and proclaim them to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. Say to them: This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed are those who don’t heed the terms of this covenant that I commanded your ancestors when I bought them out of the land of Egypt, that iron crucible, saying, Obey me and observe all that I instruct you. Then you will be my people and I, even I, will be your God. I will fulfill my solemn pledge that I made to your ancestors to give them a land full of milk and honey, as is the case today.

And I replied, “As you say, LORD!”

The LORD said to me: Announce all these words in the towns of Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem: Obey the terms of this covenant and perform them. I repeatedly and tirelessly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt to this very day, saying, Obey me. But they didn’t listen or pay attention; they followed their own willful ambitions. So I brought upon them all the punishments I prescribed for violating this covenant—for refusing to obey.

I'm getting the impression that God is trying to tell me something today about obedience. About unquestioningly, and faithfully following his leading - which in itself is a very appropriate Lenten theme as we remember the Son who went to the cross - ultimately against his own desires (as we see in the Garden of Gethsemane) but in obedience to the will of the Father. The question I'm asking God in my prayers today is this:

Is he calling me to obedience in something I've been thus far unfaithful in? Or is he preparing me for something in the future that will be difficult to obey? 

What is the Lord calling you to obey him in today? Happy Lenting.