Obedience

“Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.” (Proverbs 8:32)
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways.” (Psalms 119:1-3) Luke in his gospel, tells us the story of a lady who said to Jesus: “Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.” But Jesus told her: “Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” (Luke 11: 27, 28) “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” (James 1: 22-24) “Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better then sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.” (I Samuel 15:22) Who among us wants to be blessed? We all do, yet we continue to look for some mysterious key to obtaining the favor and blessings of God, when all God requires from us is obedience. He desires that His sons listen to His voice and then simply obey Him. When we keep His ways, He will bless us. It is in the favor of God that we find life. (Psalms 30:5) We will never be happy as long as we are outside the will of God.