{"id":4280,"date":"2009-04-02T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T01:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=6"},"modified":"2009-04-02T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T01:36:54","slug":"what-my-obedience-to-god-costs-other-people-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/02\/what-my-obedience-to-god-costs-other-people-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD COSTS OTHER PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They laid hold upon one Simon &#8230; and on him they laid<br \/>\n     the cross.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Luke 23:2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs<br \/>\nus, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our<br \/>\nLord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it<br \/>\ncosts those who do not love Him a good deal. If we obey God it will<br \/>\nmean that other people&#8217;s plans are upset, and they will gibe us with<br \/>\nit &#8211; &#8220;You call this Christianity?&#8221; We can prevent the suffering; but<br \/>\nif we are going to obey God, we must not prevent it, we must let the<br \/>\ncost be paid.<\/p>\n<p>Our human pride entrenches itself on this point, and we say &#8211; I will<br \/>\nnever accept anything from anyone. We shall have to, or disobey God.<br \/>\nWe have no right to expect to be in any other relation than our Lord<br \/>\nHimself was in (see Luke 8:2-3).<\/p>\n<p>Stagnation in spiritual life comes when we say we will bear the whole<br \/>\nthing ourselves. We cannot. We are so involved in the universal<br \/>\npurposes of God that immediately we obey God, others are affected.<br \/>\nAre we going to remain loyal in our obedience to God and go through<br \/>\nthe humiliation of refusing to be independent, or are we going to<br \/>\ntake the other line and say &#8211; I will not cost other people suffering?<br \/>\nWe can disobey God if we choose, and it will bring immediate relief<br \/>\nto the situation, but we shall be a grief to our Lord. Whereas if we<br \/>\nobey God, He will look after those who have been pressed into the<br \/>\nconsequences of our obedience. We have simply to obey and to leave<br \/>\nall consequences with Him.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of the inclination to dictate to God as to what you will allow<br \/>\nto happen if you obey Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They laid hold upon one Simon &#8230; and on him they laid the cross. &#8212; Luke 23:2 If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}