Lesson6-Day 4 'We Must Obey God'

Does this hit at our desire for acceptance? How shallow I am in that I do not have the faith to believe that God has accepted me in an unconditional way that no other person can. Yet, I am more willing to compromise my schedule (equated to obedience) to gain the acceptance and/or favor of some person.

My obedience to God who is totally accepting of me a lot of the time does not get the same concideration. In fact many times the part of my schedule I give up in order to gain favor with man is my relationship with God.

There is a balance here as the lesson points out. It is normal and right to want to please people. We have to win the favor of people in order to witness with them.

The specific obedience being talked about here is sharing Christ. This is an area that there is no wavering. We must share regardless of what other men are saying we should do.

We are in a country in which we have freedom to talk about Christ. Think of counties where this is not true. Were governments put you in jail and/or punish you to the point of death because you proclaim Christ.

God has shown us great favor and yet we (I) am afraid to talk to my "neighbor" about Christ. Do I (we) know what fear is? It is highly unlikely that a negative reaction from my "neighbor" would be more than "don't talk to me about God." Yet, my fear is great enough to keep me from proclaiming Christ.

How do we overcome our fear and proclaim Christ boldly?