(The only) Harvest Worth Gathering

Disclaimer; (Today is one of those'much-easier-writ-than-run/said-than-done' posts) The older I get the more evident this age-old Bible truth becomes;Faith's foolproof  evidence is obedience💗Obedience opens the doors to the extra-ordinary lifeevery believer may experience. God's invitation to 'come' is extended to everyone!All are created by Him, and dearly loved by Him: nobody is a nobodyand His word is for everybody!!)Hallelujah! 1 Sam.15:22So 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. Today's post was inspired in part by a few recent devotions inMy Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers Oho, what want and woe we sow when we usurp God’s Word with viceAnd disregard and oft forego the waiting that His way requiresBut oh, what hope and joy and peace rains on altars of sacrificeAs we, with yielded will release the impetus of vain desires How fraudulent, faith’s holy fight if we reserve the right to ‘I’How fickle, the compass of sight and logic’s crafty rigmaroleThe words we say do not portray the ‘yay’ of love’s utter replyTo trust in God and to obey is the love-language of the soul For all the change that spills its art through progression’s scarred instituteThe proneness of the human heart, no ‘enlightenment’ reinventsThe Tempter’s ‘’ when eying the forbidden fruitStill presses us to disobey, blinding us to its consequence Oh, what sad harvest we commence when we cultivate pious talkJustifying glossed ignorance, without surrender to God’s wayOh God, convict us of our sin, lest we become a stumbling blockOh, work Your miracle within, and make us eager to obey God’s everlasting Word is true; a light that never beams awryA Beacon to guide pilgrims through a world that aggrandizes sinOho, what blessing we forego when Self is too stubborn to dieOnly obedience can sow a harvest worth gathering in © Janet Martin Jer.17:5-10This is what the Lord says:“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,who draws strength from mere fleshand whose heart turns away from the Lord.6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;they will not see prosperity when it comes.They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,in a salt land where no one lives. 7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,whose confidence is in him.8 They will be like a tree planted by the waterthat sends out its roots by the stream.It does not fear when heat comes;its leaves are always green.It has no worries in a year of droughtand never fails to bear fruit.” 9 The heart is deceitful above all thingsand beyond cure.Who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heartand examine the mind,to reward each person according to their conduct,according to what their deeds deserve.”