Love, boundaries, and obedience:

Love indicates that I am willing to live within the bounds of love. Marriage suggests boundaries of the very nature of the relationship. There are things that I will no longer do and things I will do because of the love that binds our marriage relationship. The degree of commitment to which I obey these boundaries and the obligation of that relationship, will predict the value and longevity of that marriage.

So our relationship to God is bound up in our willingness to live happily within the boundaries of that spiritual relationship. God will never violate His commitments to us and our need to strive in that direction that keeps “what we have committed to Him against that day.” The is a joy in a friendship when we both respect the relationship enough to keep it in good repair. Trust, honor, honesty, are necessary for all of these human relationships. Our spiritual relationship is developed around the same principles.

If we are busy with: “Seek you first the Kingdom of God,” then obedience is a natural progression in that direction. As we become obedient to the boundariesof our relationship with God, our lives are flavored with pre-obedience because we know what we should be doing as we “press towards the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

Obedience brings stability and a sense to togetherness of which disobedience has no clue. Finally, obedience to God has its rewards and disobedience has its consequences. You choose by your behavior which is coming your way.