1/11/2020
Luke 23:26
Is there a cost in being obedient to God? In my early faith walk, I was looking for answers, and started finding them outside my home church. For the first time, I started reading the Bible beyond the usual prescribed Sunday readings. I started considering another denomination as well. The shift had begun. When I yielded to Jesus, and asked Him to forgive me and be my Savior, there was a cost to others; in particular my mother. She was very a deeply devout and spiritual woman, and a wonderful example of faithfulness. It concerned her when I left the church I was raised in to follow a different faith path. It also concerned other members of my family. What I was moving towards was not familiar to them. I was becoming a "Bible Thumper" as one of them put it. There were other relationships that also suffered at the time because my priorities began to change. I had begun to walk a different path that took me away from things of the world. This bred nothing but confusion.
When God becomes your number one priority, those that are on a different path often struggle with the "why". My mother sought council about my spiritual direction and prayed for me. She was afraid for my soul. It wasn't until several years later that she started on her own path of a deepening faith. We both reached a place where we totally submitted to God, but arrived at that place in very different ways. In the beginning I had to pray, obey, and not get in His way. Although I know it initially caused my mother pain, in the end we both grew closer to God and each other. To God be the glory.
Chambers says, "Whereas if we obey God, He will look after those that have been pressed into the consequences of our obedience. We have simply to obey and leave all consequences to Him."
2 comments:
What ever path leads you closer to our Heavenly Father is the correct path. Each of us have our own journey. I feel that I need that Grace that comes from going to Mass or Confession to bring me closer to God. There was a time that I did not practice my faith. Because of my time a way from organized religion I am so thankful that my parents brought up in Catholic faith and why it was so important to them.
Agreed. I am thankful for my upbringing as well. Being raised by parents who where so devout was such an enormous blessing. I pray I have had even a fraction of the influence on my child's spiritual journey that my parents had on mine.
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