10 Good Reasons to Obey God

Lord, help me to be disciplined enough to obey You the way You want me to so I can become the person You created me to be.

There is always a price to pay when we don't do the things we need to do and instead do what we feel like doing. We have to be willing to make sacrifices and sometimes do the things we rather not for the blessings we want. The good  news is we're not alone and we can ask the Holy Spirit to give us the grace to do it with ease. Even though God loves us no matter what, we won't sense His love for us if we are walking in disobedience to His ways.

10 Good Reasons to Obey God:

1.  We get our prayers heard. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear. But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayers." Psalm 66:18-19
2. We enjoy and sense God's presence.  "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and will come to him and make Our home with him."  John 14:23
3. We gain wisdom. "He stores up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk uprightly." Proverbs 2:7
4. We have God's friendship.  "You are my friends if you do whatever I command you." John 15:14
5. We can live safely. "You shall observe my statutes and keep My judgements, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety." Leviticus 25:18
6. We are perfected. "Whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in Him. By this we know we are in Him." 1 John 2:5
7. We are blessed. "Behold I set before you today a blessing and a curse; the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today." Deuteronomy 11:26-27
8. We find happiness. "Happy is He who keeps the law." Proverbs 29:18
9. We have peace. "Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; for the future of that man is peace." Psalm 37:36
10. We have a long life. "My son do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands; for the length of days and long life and peace they will add to you." Proverbs 3: 1-2