Quotes about Obedience

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

Jesus knew he had come not just to preach the gospel of sacrifice, but also to be that sacrifice, yet he was perfectly willing.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

Paul is saying that we do the right that we do because grace is at that moment rescuing us from ourselves. Grace is protecting us from the self-righteousness and self-sovereignty that would make us all too independent and all too rebellious. Every moment of our obedience is an evidence of and a celebration of the grace that not only forgives but rescues, and not only rescues but transforms. We live in God's sight not in our own strength, but only by grace.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.