As we focus this week on growing and trusting God, today we'll explore the concept of

obedience.

Trust and obedience are directly related.

Willing joyful obedience comes from a place of deep-rooted trust and the character and intentions of your God.

When we learn to trust the heart of the Father, obedience is a good thing. of your

questions of God.

may you grow today in your willingness and excitement

to quickly obey the Lord as you learn of his love and goodness.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Isaiah 1 verse 19.

Scripture says, if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

Throughout our lives we are commanded to obey. Whether it's apparent telling us pick that up or don't do that,

or a government laying down a law, we acknowledge obedience as a necessary part of life.

And so often because we grow up with some sense of the purpose of obedience,

we apply our worldly notions of

obedience to our relationship with God. We see the commands of Scripture or feel a

prompting from the Spirit and sense a similar tone of command.

But the problem with carrying a worldly notion of obedience into our relationship with

God is that no one, no matter how loving can or will fully

care for us the way our Heavenly Father does, no matter how good the lawmaker, parent, friend or teacher, no one truly knows the future like God does.

Isaiah 119 promises us if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

God asks for us to be obedient to him because his plan is always for our betterment.

He sees what lies ahead of us. He knows the potential perils or fruits of our actions.

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