Key Verse: Verse 2 - “And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.”
Key Words: And all these blessings shall come on thee
Just as disobedience leads to trouble, obedience leads to blessing.
All one has to do to see this truth is look at Abraham, or Joshua at the walls of Jericho, or Naomi going back from Moab to Israel, and the list goes on and on. It’s a simple principle: obey, but it is not always easy to do.
F.B. Meyer preached in London, England, while Charles Spurgeon & G. Campbell Morgan were preaching there, too. They were all great preachers, but Spurgeon’s church and Morgan’s church were both bigger than Meyer’s church. And he admitted to being a bit envious of them.
So he prayed, asking God to tell him what to do because he was jealous of them, and he didn’t want to be jealous. And somehow God instructed him to pray for both Spurgeon and Morgan, that their churches would prosper, and that more and more people would come to them.
Well, Meyer said that he didn’t want to do that. But he thought that he had better obey the Lord. So he prayed diligently that Spurgeon’s church and Morgan’s church would grow and grow. He said, “Their churches grew so much in answer to my prayers, that they overflowed. And the overflow came to my church.”
Obedience does lead to blessings, but disobedience…well, let’s just say you don’t want to go there.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Don’t question God; just obey Him.
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