Discipleship & Obedience

Discipleship & Obedience You Did No Harm. Did You Do Good? We can let someone suffer and still believe we did nothing wrong. From the Good Samaritan to Eli’s silence, Scripture shows that the good we knowingly… Discipleship & Obedience The Prayer That Does Not Avail Much We can pray earnestly and still not receive what we ask. Scripture shows why: pleading cannot replace repentance, forgiveness does not cancel every consequence, and prayer… Discipleship & Obedience Our Need Gives Us Reason to Ask, Not Authority to Decide Our need is a real reason to pray, but it is not a reason for God to obey. Even the sinless Son prayed within submission to… Discipleship & Obedience You May Have Forgotten What You Sowed—God Has Not Time can make us believe that what we once sowed has disappeared. Scripture says otherwise. Evil is not forgotten because its consequence is delayed, and faithfulness… Discipleship & Obedience The Delay Is Not the End A silent field is not an empty field. Scripture teaches that there is often a long interval between sowing and reaping. Delayed consequence does not mean… Discipleship & Obedience Nothing Escapes the Eyes of God Human beings see appearances, actions, and fragments of another person's life. God sees what no human observer can see: motives, thoughts, hidden choices, secret wounds, private… Discipleship & Obedience God Sees What People Cannot See Human beings see appearances and fragments. God sees the whole person—the motives beneath actions, the hidden sins no one discovers, the wounds no one notices, and… Discipleship & Obedience Who Is He? Knowing the God We Are Asked to Trust Christian faith is not merely belief that a higher power exists. Scripture invites us to know the God who reveals Himself as “I AM,” the God… Discipleship & Obedience You Cannot Trust the God You Refuse to Know Faith becomes fragile when our understanding of God is built mainly from circumstances, feelings, disappointments, and expectations. Scripture calls us to know God as He reveals… Discipleship & Obedience Trust God Beyond What You Can Understand We naturally want to understand before we trust. Proverbs 3:5–6 reverses that order. God does not ask us to abandon reason, but He warns us against… Discipleship & Obedience You Do Not Need the Whole Road to Take the Next Faithful Step We often want God to reveal the whole road before we obey the next step. Proverbs 3:5–6 teaches a different order. Trust does not require complete… Discipleship & Obedience The Sin of What We Leave Undone We usually think of sin as something we actively do. But Jesus also confronts what we fail to do. Matthew 25:45 exposes a quieter form of…