Obedience is Better Than Sacrifice
I Samuel 15:22 NKJV
[22] So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
Throughout Scripture, God compares our relationship to Him to the relationship of marriage. Jesus is the Bridegroom and we, the Church, are the Bride. It is also how God spoke of His relationship to Israel in the Old Testament. Interestingly, every time God spoke to Israel through the prophets about how they committed adultery against Him, it had to do with the issue of idolatry.
We might think of idolatry as bowing down to statues, but the heart of it is worship. God defines worship the first time we see it mentioned in Scripture, in the story of Abraham and Isaac. Here, we see that worship is obedience. (Genesis 22:1-5)
Worship is not some slow, beautiful song that we sing to the Lord with uplifted hands; it is a lifestyle of obedience. No matter how we “perform” in church, if we do not obey God in our daily lives, we are not truly worshiping Him and are, in fact, living in spiritual adultery.
Choose to truly worship Jesus Christ in Spirit and in Truth not just in song but also through a lifestyle of surrender and obedience.
[22] So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
Throughout Scripture, God compares our relationship to Him to the relationship of marriage. Jesus is the Bridegroom and we, the Church, are the Bride. It is also how God spoke of His relationship to Israel in the Old Testament. Interestingly, every time God spoke to Israel through the prophets about how they committed adultery against Him, it had to do with the issue of idolatry.
We might think of idolatry as bowing down to statues, but the heart of it is worship. God defines worship the first time we see it mentioned in Scripture, in the story of Abraham and Isaac. Here, we see that worship is obedience. (Genesis 22:1-5)
Worship is not some slow, beautiful song that we sing to the Lord with uplifted hands; it is a lifestyle of obedience. No matter how we “perform” in church, if we do not obey God in our daily lives, we are not truly worshiping Him and are, in fact, living in spiritual adultery.
Choose to truly worship Jesus Christ in Spirit and in Truth not just in song but also through a lifestyle of surrender and obedience.
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