{"id":446,"date":"2011-10-24T03:31:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=446"},"modified":"2015-10-22T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:18:07","slug":"it-is-better-to-obey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"It Is Better to Obey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hebrews<\/a>Many times I feel upset and frustrated because I do not get my way. I go off and pout for a while, then eventually, with the passage of time, the ill-feelings go away and I seem to get back in my normal mood. This way of handling my difficulties is all wrong. God\u2019s truth teaches us to confront our frustrations, reason with Him, and come to an agreement that is open to the Light and brings closure to the concern. Anything that disobeys the truth and is not done in love — is \u201csin.\u201d Sin takes you out of alignment with our Holy Father and places us at the mercy seat of Christ. Amazingly, if we quickly \u201crepent\u201d we can get back within the grace of God through His Son, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

\nWhen we feel we have been wronged our innate defensive mechanisms kick in and the \u201cfight or flight\u201d mentality begins to deal with our alleged offense. We either go off and pout (maybe even drag a few reluctant friends along with us) or we put up our fists and begin to bang away. <\/p>\n

\nGod\u2019s Word says that our righteousness is like filthy rags. The more I think I\u2019m right, the more I realize how much I\u2019m not. It\u2019s about \u201cgrace.\u201d It\u2019s all about our Heavenly Father\u2019s amazing grace! I don\u2019t have to be \u201cright\u201d anymore! Jesus did it all. He was God\u2019s righteousness veiled in flesh. He was the perfect, unblemished Lamb of God. Jesus didn\u2019t run away and pout when He was wronged and difficulties came, He faced them head on. Not with fists clenched, but with open hands filled with salvation, mercy, and love. He was obedient to His Father\u2019s will all the way to His death on the cross, not for His sake, but for ours. I believe He told us the reason for His grace on the cross. \u201cFather! Forgive them! For they do not know what they are doing.\u201d
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\nForgive me, my Lord Jesus! I have failed You so many times. In my selfishness I have brought darkness in this world. Yet, Your grace remains. You have created me from the beginning to be salt and light. Help me to be obedient to Your commandments. My desire is to love Your commandments even more than I love this life. I will always sing of Your mercy and grace. Amen.<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many times I feel upset and frustrated because I do not get my way. I go off and pout for a while, then eventually, with the passage of time, the ill-feelings go away and I seem to get back in my normal mood. This way of handling my difficulties is all wrong. God\u2019s truth teaches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,29,53,70,37],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-filthy-rags","tag-grace","tag-love","tag-mercy","tag-righteousness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-7c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}