JUST TRUST GOD AND OBEY HIM

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For TUESDAY, 28TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: JUST TRUST GOD AND OBEY HIM

MEMORIZE: “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!" Psalm 34:8

SCRIPTURE READING: 1Samuel 15:17-24 (NKJV)

¹⁷ So Samuel said, "When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?¹⁸ Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'¹⁹ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?" ²⁰ And Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ²¹ But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal." ²² So Samuel said: "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king." ²⁴ Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.”    

EXPOSITION:

Trust is to have strong confidence in something or someone that it will not fail. The car you are not sure will take you to your destination, you will not take it out for journey. The staff/follower you know may disgrace you in the public, you will not take him/her out with you. Even men of darkness do trust their weapons and charms. But do trust God today by believing His word? 

Trust is not achieved in one day. It is an accumulation of many times tests and trials. A person to trust must have been tested and approved worthy of our trust. 

In this case, no one is worthy to trust with whole of our hearts except God. As human being, I have trusted many people with my life, thinking I know them. I believe they will not let me down. But they proved that they are men, they failed me and deserted me when I needed them most. Men can change at any time without giving you notice. Men are too weak than to trust them with your life. 

Only God is worthy of our trust. Trusting God usually comes with responsibility: When you trust God with your life, you must obey Him. Achan could not obey Him in Joshua 6 and 7, he coveted accursed things. It got him untimely death in a disgraceful and painful way. Hannah trusted Him and also obeyed him, her son became the substitute to Eli. Do you trust God with your life as to obey him, whether it is convenient for you or Not. The apostles said in Acts 4:19-20, "...Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." Since the years you have claimed to have given your life into Jesus Christ, how obedient and submissive are you to the authority of Jesus Christ over you. Trusting God and obeying Him is highly rewarding - Psalm 34:8. Many benefits we are losing when we fail to trust him and obey him. 

To learn trust and obedience to God, let us examine the word of this hymn as was composed by the saints who have gone before us to the feet of the Master, Jesus Christ. Read it line by line and ponder on it. Therefore, henceforth, be a doer of God's word and not just the hearer or speaker alone. 

1. When we walk with the Lord

In the light of his word

What a glory He sheds on our way!

While we do His good will,

He abides with us still,

And with all who will trust and obey

Chorus:

Trust and obey, for there's no other way

To be happy in Jesus,

But to trust and obey

2. Not a shadow can rise,

Not a cloud in the skies,

But His smile quickly drives it away;

Not a doubt nor a fear

Not a sigh nor a tear,

Can abide while we trust and obey.

3. Not a burden we bear,

Not a sorrow we share

But our toil he doth richly repay;

Not a grief nor a loss,

Not a frown nor a cross,

But is blest if we trust and obey.

4. But we never can prove

The delights of His love

Until all on the alter we lay;

For the favour He shows,

And the joy he bestows,

Are for them who will trust and obey.

5. Then in fellowship sweet

We will sit at His feet,

Or we'll walk by His side in the way;

What He says we will do

Where He sends we will go

Never fear, only trust and obey.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, help me and my household be able to walk with you and be obedient to your Lordship over us in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  2 Samuel 10-13.

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