The hardest thing to do is to obey, especially when your wants are contrary to what is asked for you to do. Obedience can sometimes be confusing. You are to think whether it will benefit you or it will just cause you pain. But what is it like if we obey? What is it like if we strive to obey everyday and just forget what we want, just obey?
As a teenager, it is very hard for me to figure out when to do things and when things should not be done. I find everything confusing, I find everything irrelevant. Through all that I've been through, there's this one thing that I have learned and it is to obey.
Obey even if it may seems to be worthless,
Obey even if it seems to cause you pain,
Obey even if it seems like everything will fall apart and
Obey because there is no harm in following that still small voice in you.
We often not obey because we don't want to exert so much effort, as long as we are happy, we just want to stay just like that. In my case, I've been in a long time relationship, in my heart i know for sure what I want and that i want to spend the rest of my life with that person. I've been searching for the real meaning of love, I've been looking for people that will certainly love me and take care of me. I cannot say that I found it in the wrong places because honestly, I felt and knew what love is. However, like Abram in Genesis 12, God tested me if I will leave my native land for His great plans for me. I refuse most of the time, I am happy with what I have, where I am and what I am doing, I feel like everything are blessings so why would I leave? Why would I surrender all these things if it is the only thing that i hold on to and the only thing that I have? It is hard, so hard. God did not give up on me, He keeps on reminding me to just follow Him, obey Him and I will see that His plans are bigger, better and wonderful.
Changes are painful, changes are hard and it really takes a strong person to face it. It may give you the wrong thought of questioning God if those are really His will and plan for your life. It is, compromising will just cause us even more pain and destruction but obedience and going with God's blueprint in our lives will reveal His greatness and His plans for us. It may be painful and very uneasy from the start but it will all pay off for God does what He promised, He is faithful and just, His words are true and we can depend on Him 100%. Just try to come to Him in a prayer and ask Him to direct you and allow you to really obey in Him. Remember it takes a leap of faith, open mind and ready heart to do it. :) God bless!
