Love-Based Obedience
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
God is the perfect parent. He is unlike anyone we’ve ever known, and his love is unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Imagine knowing your parent loved you perfectly, and that their intentions and motives behind giving you direction was literally perfectly loving? That’s how God is with us. His wisdom and direction is something we can trust implicitly because he can trust his heart toward us, and that truth makes obedience a joy. As we explore love-based obedience today, may your heart be open to the goodness of your loving Father.
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| 0:00.0 | God is the perfect parent. |
| 0:07.0 | He's unlike anyone we've ever known, |
| 0:10.0 | and his love is unlike anything we've experienced before. |
| 0:15.0 | Imagine knowing your parent loved you perfectly, |
| 0:18.0 | and that their intentions and motives behind giving you direction was |
| 0:22.6 | literally perfectly loving. That's how God is with us. His wisdom and direction is something |
| 0:30.9 | we can trust implicitly because we can trust his heart toward, and that truth makes obedience a joy. |
| 0:40.0 | As we explore love-based obedience today, may your heart be open to the goodness of |
| 0:47.1 | your loving father. |
| 0:49.1 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John chapter 14, verse 21. |
| 1:20.6 | Scripture says, |
| 1:22.6 | Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, |
| 1:26.4 | He it is who loves me. |
| 1:29.7 | And he who loves me will be loved by my father. |
| 1:34.1 | And I will love him and manifest myself to him. |
| 1:42.5 | For much of my life, I feared the thought of obedience, especially to the Almighty, all-knowing, |
| 1:50.3 | an all-powerful creator of the universe. |
| 1:54.0 | I couldn't seem to find a way to consistently choose him over myself. |
| 2:01.3 | I couldn't seem to be able to live for his affections over those of the world. |
| 2:08.3 | As hard as I would try in various seasons, I just couldn't be obedient. |
| 2:15.5 | What I didn't realize about God's command to be obedient was the process by which I could |
| 2:22.0 | grow in obedience. God will take our obedience however he can get it because he wants us to enjoy |
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