For our daily Bible time after lunch, the girls and I have started studying obedience. The foundation of our study begins with this definition for biblical obedience: freedom to be creative under the protection of divinely appointed authority. Now, my girls are ages 6, almost 4, and 2. It's not likely that they will understand what some of these words mean without a little explanation. So we started with the word freedom. I asked Anna if she knew what "freedom" meant. Here's what her answer was. "I think 'freedom' is when you are let go from the things that trap you." 
How true! In the context of our definition, God's wants us to obey in order that we be released from the sins/temptations/willfulness that would easily trap us. And, when we are obedient to God's commands and instructions, we actually gain freedom. No longer can the devil pin us down with accusations of our failures; no longer do we need to wallow in self-pity and dispair. On another page of my Bible I have written, "Remember who you are and Whose you are." "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Right? 
There are so many times when I doubt that God has really given what is best for me. But the Bible says that he has not only ordained each day of my life, also the things I've been given to do each day. And if I am obedient to the Lord, then I am no longer entrapped by my sin nor the world nor satan's schemes, but freed to live with joy and contentment under the protective shield of my heavenly Father. Ah that this would become real and true in my life!
How true! In the context of our definition, God's wants us to obey in order that we be released from the sins/temptations/willfulness that would easily trap us. And, when we are obedient to God's commands and instructions, we actually gain freedom. No longer can the devil pin us down with accusations of our failures; no longer do we need to wallow in self-pity and dispair. On another page of my Bible I have written, "Remember who you are and Whose you are." "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Right? 
There are so many times when I doubt that God has really given what is best for me. But the Bible says that he has not only ordained each day of my life, also the things I've been given to do each day. And if I am obedient to the Lord, then I am no longer entrapped by my sin nor the world nor satan's schemes, but freed to live with joy and contentment under the protective shield of my heavenly Father. Ah that this would become real and true in my life! 
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