Obedience - Spurgeon
The chief thought in life with the true believer is: How can I obey God? His greatest concern is to do the will of God, or to yield to that will in a way that is pleasing to God. And if he can obey, he will not negotiate with God or be distracted with any reservations on his part. He will pray, “Refine me from the dross of rebellion, and let the furnace be as fierce as you will.” His choice is neither wealth nor ease nor honor, but that he may “glorify God in body and in spirit, which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:20). Obedience has become as much his rule as self-will is the rule of others. His cry to the Lord is, “By your command I stay or go. Your will is my will; Your pleasure is my pleasure; Your law is my love.”
May God grant us a supreme, overmastering faith, for this is the kind of faith that we must have if we are to lead obedient lives. We must have faith in God’s right to rule, faith in the justness of His commands, faith in our personal obligation to obey, and faith that His commands must be the chief authority of our lives. With the faith that belongs to God’s elect, we will realize the purpose of our election, namely, “that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.” (Eph 1:4)