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 in the character and intentions of your

God. When we learn to trust the heart of the Father, obedience is a natural response to whatever

he asks. 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 15 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 be a parent 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.

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.

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