Persevering in Obedience
How quickly do we let obstacles prevent us from believing in and obeying Christ? Sadly, doesn’t the slightest resistance easily get us off track? “He did this” or “She said that” or “I just can’t get over how I was mistreated” or “I can’t believe this is happening again” or ”Surely God does not expect or empower me to obey in these circumstances.”
There is at least one, significant, unbiblical mindset present in those thoughts and that is that obeying Christ should be without resistance from other sinners or situations. The question we need to ask ourselves is: What about the Bible’s description of your own heart and of the current world we live in would make you think it would be easy to trust in Christ? Faith actually comes into play when it is hard.
When obedience is getting all jammed up by your own sin and the sin of others and the effects of living in a fallen world, we must not give up and just hope it will be easier tomorrow. We must seek out God’s truth by digging through God’s word until we find something to cling to. This is the kind of persevering faith of which God approves.