When you hear the word, “obedience” what comes to your mind? Is it faithfulness? What about doing the right thing? How about obeying? Well, the word obedience is described as compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another’s authority. When you were young, your parents would tell you to clean up your room, pick up your clothes, wash the dishes, or do your homework? As children we were expected to live out Ephesians 6:1-3. It says, “Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. Honor your father and mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” Our parents expected us to be obedient. The same is true with God. He wants you and me to be obedient to His Word. Not just some of it or the parts that we like but every word of it. Jesus reminds us in John 15:14, “If you love me, keep my commands.” So, if we love Jesus, we will do what He says for us to do.

     Each day we are faced with decisions to do things our way or God’s way. We can choose to love or to hate, to forgive or hold the grudge, to move forward or to live in the past. Luke 11:28 says, “Jesus replied, ‘But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice.’” If you and I desire to be blessed to be followers of Jesus, we must be willing to pay the cost so “Say It With Me, Obedience”.