Simmer

 

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Simon says is one of the stupidest games ever created… I hate playing it, I hate putting it on, I hate watching it, I just hate it. And why? Because simon says so. 

 

 

All through out the bible we see where God calls people to do something and many times he provides methods, means, materials, masses… And then… sometimes he does provide… but it just doesn’t seem enough… a few fish and a few pieces of bread for 12K people… and many times God asks us to do things and he provides us with nothing… no money, no support, no provision, no vision, no back up plan, no talent, no supernatural gifting, no history to fall back on for confidence - he almost asks us to do something out of a total void. But what he does ask us is to do is the one thing that only you can do and that is obey. 

 

 

As William Mierop wrote, and I quote “in John 15, the secret of abounding is abiding, the secret of abiding is obeying and the secret of obeying is abandonment. 

You just abandon yourself if in trusting him… you just obey and not worry about the why or how.

 

Look I have learned early on that life is just plain hard. It just sucks sometimes… period. It just has seasons of waking up with a truck parked on your chest and your stomach on fire… 

But on top of that if you make dumb decisions… spending money you don’t have, having children out of wedlock, always showing up late to work, looking at porn, lying, gossiping, laziness… You compound lifes hardships X’s a 1000.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28 sums it up like this: "Obey and you will be blessed. Disobey and you will be cursed.”

If I could add a pre-verse to this (and Im not adding to scripture) But if I could … or lets just say I am going give pre-commentary to this… I would add before this verse… life is brutal, but if you obey you will be blessed despite of it and if you disobey its brutality we will turn volcanic. 

But what really is obedience… 

Have you ever tried to set up rules for kids to follow… but they can always find a way to manipulate the rules…

You say Don’t eat any more cookies until you have supper and its only 1 in the afternoon. You come down 20 minutes later and they are eating cookies… but let you know they ate supper early like 5 minutes ago and now they are having cookies…

 

We can always manipulate our obedience or lack thereof - 

But rule following is not truly the fullest concept of obedience in scripture. What is?

its the idea of positioning oneself under someone by submitting to their authority and command. We choose to revere them in our behavior.

Rather than saying to God “ok, give me the rules and I will try to live by them”. its more of a “Yo, you got this, I will follow your lead. Im under you Big G”.

We submit to his leading and not just his rules.

So in part we must know him, to hear him in order to obey him. OR IN FACT, we must know him to trust him and hear him to obey him.

 

Look when I was in 8th grade I went to a Christian camp and we we’re playing simon says… the point to the actual strategy was which leader could get the other teams kids out the fastest in the least amount of moves. So my leader of team Boanerges aka sons of thunder had to call the shots for the other team to see how fast he could get them to all fail. And in turn their leader had to call out the orders for our team to do and they had to see how fast they could get us to fail…

Except the other teams leader cheated… well not really but she did. oh did I mention She… as in a college age girl, blond bombshell, tennis shorts and top perfect smile… 

look we were in 7th grade people… give us a break. But the point is, we were so enamored by this innocent, beautiful smily girl we were out in about 3 moves… I think it went like this… simon says raise your right arm… we did. then she said punch yourself in the face.. we did. and we were out… because simon didn’t say. the rest of the week we called her Simmer… as in hot. She never got it, hey she was blonde. 

POINT being…. we we’re all in love with Simmer… we would do whatever she asked, no preface needed. 

Obedience to God is the same way… seek to fall deeper in love with him and obedience will be the easy part.